John Brancastre or John de Bramcastre (died 1218) was an English churchman and administrator, who became

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He was included among the keepers of the great seal by

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, under the dates of 1203 and 1205; but

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gave reasons for believing that the subscriptions to charters supposed to be attached by him as keeper were only affixed in the capacity of a deputy, or a clerk in the exchequer or in the chancery. Brancastre's signature is found attesting documents from 1200 to 1208. In 1200 or the following year he was made archdeacon of

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; in November 1204 he was sent to Flanders on the king's service; and on 13 January 1207 was commissioned by King John to take charge of

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during a vacancy in the abbacy, and in his capacity of administrator paid thence, in May of the same year, £97 into the exchequer. In the following October he was rewarded by the king (who exercised the right of presentation during the vacancy in the abbacy) with the

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of the parish which was doubtless his birthplace,

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, and on 29 May 1208 was appointed

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of Lidington in

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. He died in 1218.

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