Reginald of Cornhill (civil servant, † after 1222)

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Reginald of Cornhill (also Reginald de Cornhill ) († after 1222) was an English civil servant who served as sheriff of Kent . He gave Rochester Castle to the rebellious barons in 1215 , which is considered the beginning of the First Barons' War .

Reginald de Cornhill was a son of his father of the same name Reginald of Cornhill and his wife Matilda. His father had been an important official in the service of King John Ohneland . He or his son had probably fallen out of favor at times, because when Reginald the Elder died in 1209 or 1210, his son offered 10,000 marks to take over the inheritance and to settle his debts and his father's debts to the crown. With this unusually large sum, he wanted to get his father's possessions transferred and the office of High Sheriff of Kent , which his father had held since 1192 and had previously held other members of the family.

Reginald served as the commandant of the royal Rochester Castle. When, in 1215, despite the king's recognition of the Magna Carta , further tensions arose between the king and an aristocratic opposition, Cornhill handed the castle over to an army of rebellious barons led by William d'Aubigné at the end of September or beginning of October 1215 without a fight . By the end of November 1215, King Johann recaptured the castle in a determined siege. Reginald was taken prisoner, the king handed him over to his confidante Peter de Maulay . Maulay remained in jail for several years until he paid Maulay at least a £ 1200 ransom. In 1222 Cornhill still owed the Crown so much that he had to sell parts of his estates. During the reign of King Henry III. , The son and successor of John Lackland, served Reginald more than assizes -Richter. The year of his death is unclear.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfred L. Warren: King John . University of California Press, Berkeley, 1978, ISBN 0-520-03494-5 , p. 246
  2. ^ PDA Harvey: Reginald of Cornhill (c.1140-1209 / 10). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  3. ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Nicholas Vincent, King John's evil counselors (act. 1208-1214) (Oxford DNB). Retrieved September 6, 2016 .
  4. ^ David Carpenter: The minority of Henry III . University of California Press, Berkeley 1990. ISBN 0-520-07239-1 , p. 338
  5. ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Nicholas Vincent, King John's evil counselors (act. 1208-1214) (Oxford DNB). Retrieved September 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Reginald of Cornhill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reginald de Cornhill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English civil servant, High Sheriff of Kent
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1222