William Bloet
Sir William Bloet († between 1287 and 1300) was an English nobleman.
William Bloet came from the Bloet family , a lower nobility family with possessions in south-west England and the Welsh Marches . He was the eldest son of Ralph IV Bloet . When he died in late 1241 or early 1242, he was still a minor. The administration of his inheritance was taken over by his liege lord Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke , who, however, sold his guardianship and the right to marry him to Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester . Despite this connection with Montfort, Bloet was apparently not one of his supporters when Montfort became the leader of a nobility opposition to King Henry III during the Second War of the Barons . has been. Bloet's younger brother Ralph Bloet, however, fought alongside Montfort in 1265 in the Battle of Evesham , in which he fell like Montfort. William Bloet came of age in 1251 and took over most of his father's inheritance, including estates in Striguil in south-east Wales and other estates in south-west England. While his ancestors had lived mainly on the estates in Wales in the 12th century, Bloet lived mainly on his Silchester estate in Hampshire . Yet in 1256 he tried his knighthood delay, but before 1264 he was knighted. In 1268 he was released from service as a judge for life. In contrast, he took on numerous other public offices, including investigating allegations of abuse of office against the royal official Adam of Stratton on the Isle of Wight . In 1287 he attended a large royal council in Gloucester . After that he is no longer mentioned. His heir was John Bloet in 1300 , although it is not certain whether this was a son of his.
Web links
- David Crouch: Bloet family (per. C. 1080 – c. 1300). 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
Individual evidence
- ^ David Crouch: The Birth of Nobility. Constructing aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300 . Longman, Harlow 2005, ISBN 0-582-36981-9 , p. 287
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| SURNAME | Bloet, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1287 and 1300 |