Robert Belknap
Family: England · Role: chief justice of the common pleas · First appears: Richard II 37
Life events
- c. 1388 · Richard II required six legal officers to answer questions concerning his prerogative and the parliamentary statutes.(Richard II 37 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Richard II Robert Tresilian John Holt Roger Fulthorpe William Borough John Lockton
- “being pesonalie required in presence of the lords and other witnesses vnder written by our said souereigne lord the king, in that faith and allegiance in which to him they were bounden, that they should trulie answer to certeine questions vnderwritten, and vpon the same by their discretions, to saie the law.”
- c. 1388 · The legal officers declared the new statute, ordinance, and commission harmful to the king’s prerogative.(Richard II 37 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Robert Tresilian John Holt Roger Fulthorpe William Borough John Lockton
- “Wherevnto all of one mind answered, that they were hurtfull, and speciallie bicause they be against the kings will.”
- c. 1388 · The legal officers sealed their formal answers concerning the parliamentary judgment against Michaell de la Poole.(Richard II 37 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Robert Tresilian John Holt Roger Fulthorpe William Borough John Lockton
- “In witnesse of the premisses, the iustices & sergeant aforesaid to these presents haue set their seals”
- c. 1388 · Six justices and the king’s sergeant were arrested and confined in the Tower.(Richard II 42 · 📍 the tower)
- With: Roger Fulthrop John Cary John Holt William Brooke John Alocton
- “On the first day of this parlement, were arrested as they sat in their places, all the iustices (except sir William Skipworth) as sir Roger Fulthrop, sir Robert Belknap, sir Iohn Carie, sir Iohn Holt, sir William Brooke, and Iohn Alocton the kings sergeant at law, all which were sent to the tower, and there kept in seuerall places.”
Richard II 37
- sworn: Richard II “Robert Belknap lord chiefe iustice of the cōmon plees, ... being pesonalie required ... by our said souereigne lord the king, in that faith and allegiance in which to him they were bounden”
- with John Holt (legal associates) “Iohn Holt, Roger Fulthorpe, & William Borough, knights and associats of the said Robert Belknap”
- with Roger Fulthorpe (legal associates) “Iohn Holt, Roger Fulthorpe, & William Borough, knights and associats of the said Robert Belknap”
- with William Borough (legal associates) “Iohn Holt, Roger Fulthorpe, & William Borough, knights and associats of the said Robert Belknap”
Richard II 42
- sworn: Richard II “all the iustices (except sir William Skipworth) as sir Roger Fulthrop, sir Robert Belknap, sir Iohn Carie, sir Iohn Holt, sir William Brooke, and Iohn Alocton the kings sergeant at law”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.