Basset, Philip (d. 1271), justiciar and royalist nobleman, was a younger son and eventually—on the death of his brother, Fulk Basset, bishop of London, in 1259—heir of Alan Basset, lord of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Despite a strong family tradition of royal service, which Basset...
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Bermingham, John, earl of Louth (c. 1290–1329), magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was the eldest of at least four legitimate sons of Peter Bermingham of Tethmoy (d. 1308) and Ela, one of four daughters and coheirs of William de Odingsells of Maxstoke, Warwickshire...
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Bigod, Hugh (b. in or before 1220, d. 1266), baron and justiciar, was a younger son of Hugh (II) Bigod, earl of Norfolk, who died in 1225. His mother was Matilda (or Maud; c.1192–1248), the eldest daughter and eventual coheir of William Marshal, ...
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Butler, James, third earl of Ormond (c. 1360–1405), magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was the son of James Butler, second earl of Ormond (1331–1382), and Elizabeth (d. 1390), daughter of Sir John Darcy. He was about twenty-three when he was granted custody of his lands on 2 March 1383. As head of a great lordship centred on ...
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Butler, James, second earl of Ormond (1331–1382), magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was the only surviving son of James Butler, the first earl of Ormond (c. 1305–1338), and his wife, Eleanor de Bohun (d. 1363), a granddaughter of Edward I. His kinship to ...
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Robin Frame
Fitzgerald, Maurice fitz Thomas, first earl of Desmond (c. 1293–1356), magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was a younger son of Thomas fitz Maurice Fitzgerald (d. 1298), lord of Desmond and justiciar of Ireland, and Margaret, daughter of Thomas Berkeley of Berkeley Castle...
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Robin Frame
Fitzgerald, Maurice fitz Thomas, fourth earl of Kildare (c. 1322–1390), magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was the youngest of three sons of Thomas fitz John Fitzgerald, the second earl (d. 1328), and his wife, Joan (d. 1359), a daughter of Richard de Burgh, ...
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John fitz Geoffrey (c. 1206–1258), justiciar of Ireland and baronial leader, was the son of Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex, justiciar of England (d. 1213), and his second wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, earl of Hertford, and widow of ...
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David Crouch
Robert [Robert de Beaumont], second earl of Leicester (1104–1168), magnate and justiciar, was the son of Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan and earl of Leicester (d. 1118), and Isabel (d. 1147), daughter of Hugues, count of Vermandois. Robert was born one of twins, according to ...
