Reginald de Cornhill

Reginald de Cornhill (occasionally Reynold de Cornhill^[1]) was an English administrator under King John.

Reginald de Cornhill's father,

High Sheriff of Lancaster

following the revolt of Gilbert Fitzreinfrid.

Cornhill was in charge of collecting the tax of a fifteenth on merchants' imports and exports from 1202 to 1204, when he, along with his fellow keepers

Pipe roll of 1204.^[1] In May 1205 Cornhill, along with Willam of Wrotham, was given custody of one of three dies for the mint at Chichester, but in July the king gave Cornhill's custody to Simon of Wells, the Bishop of Chichester.^[2]

Cornhill was

King John had sent to the castle to hold it against the King. He held out against the King's two-month siege. In 1216 he was appointed Keeper of the King's Ports and Galleys

.

Through his wife Maud Cornhill had a claim to the stewardship of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, which he and his wife quitclaimed for 80 marks and 50 acres (200,000 m²) in land by fine in 1197. In 1203 the prior and convent of Prittlewell Priory, in return for a quitclaim of a moiety of the advowson of the church of North Shoebury, granted to Reginald and his heirs the perpetual right to present one clerk to be a monk in their house.^[3]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Powell "Administration of the Navy" English Historical Review pp. 182–183
^ Stewartby "Lichfield and Chichester" Numismatic Chronicle p. 294
^ From: 'Houses of Cluniac monks: Priory of Prittlewell', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 138–41. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=39839. Date accessed: 9 February 2007.

References

Powell, W. R. (1956). "The Administration of the Navy and the Stannaries, 1189–1216". JSTOR 557697
.

Stewartby, Lord (2001). "Lichifield and Chichester". The Numismatic Chronicle. 161: 293–295.
JSTOR 42668028
.

External links

Prisage on wine, sent by John to Reginald in 1205

12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official

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[Powell182-1] Powell "Administration of the Navy" English Historical Review pp. 182–183

[Stewartby294-2] Stewartby "Lichfield and Chichester" Numismatic Chronicle p. 294

[3] From: 'Houses of Cluniac monks: Priory of Prittlewell', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 138–41. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=39839. Date accessed: 9 February 2007.

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