Richard of Staines (or Richard de Stanes) was an English clerical judge. He acted as an Itinerant Justice, visiting 11 counties in 1208 before his appointment as a justice of the
Court of King's Bench
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in 1209. He became
Lord Chief Justice
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in 1269,
and after the coronation of
Edward I
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vassal o ...
in 1273 was moved to the
Court of Common Pleas
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.
He died in 1277.
References
1277 deaths
Justices of the Common Pleas
Lord chief justices of England and Wales
Justices of the King's Bench
13th-century English people
Year of birth unknown
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