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Leynthale, Roland ( - 1450)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: n.d.
Death Date: 1450-12-19

Notes

Member of the royal household by 1399/1400; served Prince Henry (later Henry V) and Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (member of the royal household 1398--1405/6 and Prince Henry's/Henry V's household 1408/9--22)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Fitz Alan, Margaret ( - 1423)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union may have also produced another son, Roland

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1414/15-03-20
    Vacated: 1450-12-10

General Lands Note

Held 1st wife's dower lands for life

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
JP, Shropshire 1412/13
Keeper, Pembrokeshire 1414/15 -3 -20 Possibly appointed to office for life
Chamberlain to Queen Catharine (of Valois), England 1420 -6 -2
Keeper, Worcestershire 1420 1434 Held office during the minority of Sir Hugh Mortimer (1413--60). Previously, Leynthale had been granted, on 6 Dec. 1415, the wardship and marriage of Sir Hugh's elder brother Sir John (d 1420)
JP, Herefordshire 1422
JP, Shropshire 1422
JP, Herefordshire 1423
Sheriff, Herefordshire 1423 -11 -13 1424 -11 -6
Constable & Steward, Pembrokeshire 1441/2 -1 -28

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Lands

  • Dorset
    Acquired: 1415
    Via 1st wife
  • Essex
  • Herefordshire: Hampton Richard Manor; Monkland Manor & Priory
  • Middlesex
  • Norfolk
  • Pembrokeshire
  • Shropshire: Childs Ercall Manor; Wellington Hay (third)
    Acquired: 1415
    Via 1st wife
  • Somerset: South Stoke Manor
    Acquired: 1415
    Via 1st wife
  • Surrey
  • Sussex: Clemsfold & Warningcamp Manors
    Acquired: 1415
    Via 1st wife
  • Warwickshire
  • Worcestershire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Worcester (Unknown), Worcester, Worcestershire Sir Roland Leynthale's Harper

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Roland Leynthale's Harper Leynthale, Roland (0 - 1450) Musicians 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV – Henry VI [1467–77]. London: HMSO, 1900
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV [1399–1413]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1903--9
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910--11
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1933--47
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Page, William, A.T. Gaydon and G.C. Baugh, eds. The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire. 11 vols. London: Archibald Constable, U of London, 1908--98
  • Salzman, L.F., C.R.J. Currie and T.P. Hudson. The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. 8 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1905--7 [vols 1--2], 1935 [3], 1953 [4], 1997 [5], 1980--7 [6], 1940 [7], 1937 [9]