Sir Roger Brabazon ( 1247 – 13–14 June 1317) was an
English lawyer, and
Chief Justice of the King's Bench
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from 1296 to 1316. Little is known of his background, he was the son of William le Brabazon, and may have been born at
Mowsley in
Leicestershire
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in or before 1247. Knighted in 1268, Sir Roger was in the service of
Edmund of Lancaster from 1275, and through Edmund's patronage he started receiving judicial commissions from the mid-1280s. In 1290, after
Ralph de Hengham had been dismissed from the
King's Bench
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, Brabazon was hired as a junior justice.
In 1291–1292, Brabazon took part in hearing the '
Great Cause' concerning
Edward I
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's overlordship over
Scotland, and pronounced the judgement in favour of
John Balliol as heir to the Scottish crown. Upon the death of
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in 1295, Brabazon was then appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, a position he held until old age and infirmity forced him to resign in 1316.
Brabazon married Beatrice, daughter of Warin of Bassingbourn, at some point between 1281 and 1284. With his own and his wife's inheritance, combined with later acquisitions, he held extensive lands in the county of Leicestershire. He died on either 13 June or 14 June 1317, and as he left no issue, his heir was his brother, Matthew. He was buried in
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, and his
London house was sold to
Hervey de Stanton, later a Chief Justice of the King's Bench himself.
References
*Paul Brand, 'Brabazon, Sir Roger (b. in or before 1247?, d. 1317)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
accessed 4 March 2008
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1240s births
1317 deaths
English people of Norman descent
Justices of the King's Bench
Lord chief justices of England and Wales