William Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
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Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton |
William le Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire, King of Mann
Life
He was a soldier-adventurer in Lithuania,[1] Italy and France, where he served with John of Gaunt. Gaunt made him seneschal of Aquitaine in 1383.[2] He was made vice-chamberlain of the household of King Richard II in 1393 and granted the
He was created
He had been closely involved in Richard's second marriage to the 6-year-old Isabella of Valois in 1396 [8] and was made Isabella's guardian at Wallingford Castle,[9] of which he was castellan,[10] when the King went to Ireland in 1399.
Together with Sir
Family
He married, in 1396, Isabel Russell (d. 1437), 2nd. daughter of Sir Maurice Russell (1356–1416) of Dyrham, Glos. and Kingston Russell, Dorset.[12]
Earldom
An attempt was made by Simon Thomas Scrope to reclaim the Earldom by a collateral descendant, over 500 years later. Although he was proven to be the senior heir male general, the claim failed on other grounds.
In 1869, the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords, after a series of hearings beginning in 1862 under the title of Wiltes Claim of Peerage 4 HL 126, rejected the claim of Simon Thomas Scrope, of Danby, to the Earldom of Wiltes (Wiltshire) granted to William le Scrope, above. It was proved that Simon Thomas Scrope was the senior heir male of the Earl of Wiltes, but the Committee for Privileges decided that as a matter of law an English peerage could not descend to heirs male general who were not directly descended from the original grantee; they also rejected arguments based on the irregularity of the original sentence by Henry IV before he had become King. The Committee declined to follow its own earlier decision in the Devon Peerage Claim (1831) 5 English Reports 293, in which a grant to "heirs male" had been allowed to pass to heirs male collateral.
References
- ^ Christopher Tyerman, England and the Crusades, 1095-1588 (1996), p. 270.
- ^ Scrope
- ^ The Scropes and the Isle of Man
- ^ "Bolton Castle". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
- ^ E. B. Fryde, Handbook of British Chronology (1996), p. 106.
- ^ John Smith Roskell, Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England II (1981), p. 61.
- ^ Anthony Emery, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500 (1996), p. 497.
- ^ Michael Bennett, Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 (1999), p. 79.
- ^ Wallingford Characters
- ^ Wallingford Characters
- ^ Baron Scrope of Bolton
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 ("Scrope, William")
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