James Fiennes, Lord Saye

Also known as: James Fiennes / lord Saie / sir Iames Fines / sir Iames Fines, lord Saie · Family: England · Role: bailiff · First appears: Henry V 25

Life events

• c. 1450 · The commons accused William de la Poole, Duke of Suffolk and James Fiennes, Lord Saye over surrendering French territories.(Henry VI 40 · 📍 Leicester)
  • With: William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk
  • “And to be priuie to that fact, they accused as principall, the duke of Suffolke, with Iohn bishop of Salisburie, and sir Iames Fines, lord Saie, and diuerse others.”
• c. 1450 · Henry VI removed Lord Saye from office and banished William de la Poole, Duke of Suffolk for five years.(Henry VI 40)
  • With: Henry VI William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk
  • “he first sequestred the lord Saie being treasuror of England, and other the dukes adherents from their offices and roomes, and after banished the duke of Suffolke, as the abhorred tode and common noiance of the whole realme, for tearme of fiue yeares”
• c. 1450 · Jack Cade forcibly removed James Fiennes, Lord Saye, from trial and had him beheaded.(Henry VI 42 · 📍 Cheape)
  • With: Jack Cade
  • “The capteine perceiuing his dilatorie plée, by force tooke him from the officers, and brought him to the standard in Cheape, and there (before his confession ended) caused his head to be striken off”

Henry V 25

• sworn: Henry V “At Arques sir Iames Fines, bailiffe of Caux;”

Henry VI 40

• sworn: Henry VI “he first sequestred the lord Saie being treasuror of England, and other the dukes adherents from their offices and roomes”

Henry VI 42

• sworn: Henry VI (The king's chamberlain is an officer of the royal household.) “And bicause the Kentishmen cried out against the lord Saie the kings chamberline, he was by the king committed to the Tower of London.”
• enemies with Jack Cade “and vpon the third daie of Iulie he caused sir Iames Fines, lord Saie, and treasuror of England, to be brought to the Guildhall, and there to be arreigned: who being before the kings iustices put to answer, desired to be tried by his péeres, for the longer delaie of his life. The capteine perceiuing his dilatorie plée, by force tooke him from the officers, and brought him to the standard in Cheape, and there (before his confession ended) caused his head to be striken off”
• with James Cromer (James Cromer was James Fiennes's son-in-law.) “sir Iames Cromer then shiriffe of Kent, and sonne in law to the said lord Saie”
• enemies with Henry VI “And bicause the Kentishmen cried out against the lord Saie the kings chamberline, he was by the king committed to the Tower of London.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.