Roger de St John

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Sir Roger de St John (* around 1221; † August 4, 1265 near Evesham ) was an English nobleman and rebel.

Roger de St John was believed to be a younger son of Lord John de St John and his wife Emma Despenser. Through his mother he was a half-brother of John Despenser, a cousin of Hugh le Despenser , whose sister he presumably married. He was Lord von Halnaker in Sussex and owned lands in other parts of England. As a young baron he had close ties to the royal court. In 1253 he took part in the expedition of King Henry III. in the Gascogne part. Before 1256 he was knighted . In August 1260 and again in May 1263 the king summoned him to a campaign against Prince Llywelyn of Wales , but from 1258 he openly supported the aristocratic opposition to the king. In 1262 he received royal permission to fortify his Lageham estate in Walkested. When it came to the open war of the barons in early 1264 , St John fought on the side of the aristocratic opposition led by Simon de Montfort . After the victory at the Battle of Lewes in May 1264, he was a member of the nine-member Council of State that had taken over the government. In 1265 he became secretary to the king and took over the administration of Oxford Castle . In the summer of 1265 he took part in the campaign from Montfort to the west of England, in which they were provided by superior troops of the king's supporters. He fell at the Battle of Evesham .

Roger had probably married a daughter of Hugh le Despenser († 1238), the father of the Justiciar Hugh le Despenser . His heiress became his daughter Mabel, who married William de Port. William de Port took the name St John.

literature

  • GE Cokayne: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom , Sutton, General Books 2000. ISBN 1-153-25136-1 , Vol. XI, p. 348
  • John Burke: A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance , Colburn & Bentley, London 1831, p. 458

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JR Maddicott: Simon de Montfort . Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-37636-X , p. 313
  2. ^ Clive H. Knowles: Despenser, Sir Hugh (c.1223-1265). 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
personal data
SURNAME De St John, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Saint John, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and rebel
DATE OF BIRTH around 1221
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1265
Place of death at Evesham