John Blakeney (Irish judge)
John Blakeney (died 1438) was an Irish judge of the fifteenth century, who served three times as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.[1]
He was born in
He was removed from office in 1424 but reappointed in June 1425.
He was one of a panel of senior judges who were regularly appointed to commissions of inquiry into allegations of
A judicial commission might deal with more mundane matters, as when Blakeney together with Sir Laurence Merbury, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and James Uriell, the former Chief Baron, inquired, in about 1421, into the proper line of inheritance to the lands of the Bathe family at Rathfeigh, County Meath.[9]
In 1432 he sat with his fellow Chief Justice Stephen de Bray and two other judges to hear a case of novel disseisin concerning lands in The Curragh, County Kildare.[10] What seems to have been the last judicial commission appointing Blakeney as a member, dated November 1434, and which included most of the senior judges, was to inquire into all treasons committed in Dublin and the adjoining counties of the Pale.[11]
Sources
- Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 London John Murray 1926
- Smyth, Constantine Joseph Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland London Butterworths 1839
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