William Aubrey

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William Aubrey.

William Aubrey or Awbrey (* around 1529 in Brecknockshire , Wales ; † June 25, 1595 in London ) was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1553 to 1559. He was also one of the eight founding Fellows of Jesus College and a member of the English Parliament .

Life

William was the second child of doctor Thomas Aubrey from Cantreff and his wife Agnes. Other sources give Joan Vaughn as the mother. William received his education at the school in Brecon , which later became the Christian College of Brecon. At the age of 14 he continued his studies at Oxford and in 1547 became a fellow at All Souls College . He received his Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) in 1549 and was head of the New Inn Hall in 1550 (initially together with John Story ), parts of which have been preserved in Balliol College . On October 7, 1533 he succeeded Robert Weston on the chair of Regius Professor of Civil Law. He held the chair until February 22, 1559 when John Griffith succeeded him. In order to be able to hold the lectures despite his various obligations, Aubrey was represented from 1554 by William Mowse from the University of Cambridge .

He served as Judge-Marshal in the army of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke at the Battle of Saint-Quentin (1557) .

In 1571 he was named in a list of the original eight fellows of the newly founded Jesus College.

In 1554 he earned the title of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) and was promoted to a Masters at the Court of Chancery a year later .

In 1555 Aubrey married Willigford Millicent Williams from Tainton County, Oxfordshire , England.

Legal and political work

In 1562, Aubrey was appointed by Archbishop of Canterbury , Matthew Parker , to be a member of a commission that dissolved Catherine Gray and Henry Herbert's marriage as unlawful. He also signed a legal opinion, according to which the Bishop of Ross, John Leslie , who acted as ambassador of Mary Stuart , could be indicted in England for allegedly intriguing against Elizabeth I.

He was sent to parliament for various constituencies : April 1554 for Carmarthen Boroughs, January 1558 for Brecon, 1559 for Hindon , 1563 for Arundel and 1592 for Taunton .

From 1586 he was a member of the Council of Wales and the Marches , a regional administrative unit between the 15th and 17th centuries. He was Vicar General of the Province of Canterbury under Archbishop Edmund Grindal and retained the dignity of Vicar General under John Whitgift .

Aubrey died in London, England in 1595 and was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral , the predecessor of today's cathedral.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Sir William Awbrey (b. 1529, d. 25 Jun 1595) on familytreemaker.genealogy.com; Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Aubrey William in History of the Parliament online; accessed on May 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Henry Frowde; Historical Register of the University of Oxford ; Oxford University Press Warehouse; Amen Corner, EG; Clarendon Press; being a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of University honors and distinctions, completed to the end of trinity term, 1888; Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  4. ^ The Founders ( Memento April 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Aubrey, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Awbrey, William; Awbery, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1529
PLACE OF BIRTH Brecknockshire , Wales
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1595
Place of death London , England