Nicholas Fastolf (??? - 1330) was an English-born judge who was a leading member of the early Irish judiciary; according to the most reliable source, he was the first judge to hold the office of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He was probably the direct ancestor of Sir John Fastolf, who is generally thought to have inspired Shakespeare's character Falstaff.
NicholasFastolf (??? - 1330) was an English-born judge who was a leading member of the early Irish judiciary; according to the most reliable source, he...
family in earlier generations included Thomas Fastolf, Bishop of St David's, and his brother, NicholasFastolf, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Many of the...
Left Office 1324-7 NicholasFastolf, knight (1st term) 1327-8 Henry de Hambury From Hanbury, Worcestershire 1328-30 NicholasFastolf, knight (2nd term)...
St David's. Fastolf was one of three sons of Thomas Fastolf, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, who all became lawyers. His brothers were Nicholas (died 1330)...
Richard de Exeter 1323 Richard Willoughby 1325 Henry de Hambury 1327 NicholasFastolf 1329 William de Rodyard 1331 Robert de Scardeburgh 1335 Simon Fitz-Richard...
Legal offices Preceded by NicholasFastolf Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1330-31 Succeeded by Peter Tilliol Preceded by Thomas Louth Lord Chief Justice...
to Sir John Fastolf. When Fastolf died in 1459, Worcester discovered that he had bequeathed him nothing, despite his being one of Fastolf's executors,...
agreement with his neighbour and fellow judge NicholasFastolf and his wife Cecilia in 1329, by which the Fastolfs could insert a pipe "no wider than a goose...
House 1439-1509. London: HMSO, pp. 481-2. Lewis, P. S. (1958). "Sir John Fastolf's Lawsuit over Titchwell 1448-55". The Historical Journal. 1 (1). Cambridge...
Brembre that, in the King's own words, "good and honourable men" (Hugh Fastolf and William Venour) had recently been elected Sheriffs of London. So widely...
purchased the manor of Blickling, near Aylsham, in Norfolk from Sir John Fastolf in 1452, and Hever Castle in Kent in 1462. He was the great-grandfather...
conquer the whole of Ireland. Rhys ap Gruffydd Gerald of Wales Thomas Fastolf Adam Houghton Edward Vaughan (bishop) Benedict Nichols Edmund Tudor, 1st...
Meanwhile, the English army from Paris under the command of Sir John Fastolf had linked up with the garrison in Meung and traveled along the north bank...
Yarmouth during the reign of Edward I by Thomas Fastolfe, father of Thomas Fastolf, Bishop of St David's. In 1551, a grammar school founded and the great...
Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380) November 5 – John Fastolf, English soldier December 4 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b....
numerous, but also litigious". Nicholas, James and John were the sons of a major Derbyshire landowner, Ralph Coterel. Nicholas had been involved—how deeply...
Headington stone. In 1474 Waynflete, being the principal executor of Sir John Fastolf, who died in 1459 leaving a much-contested will, procured the conversion...
Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. 1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in...
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