Sir John DE FOXLEY

Abt 1260 - 1325  (~ 65 years)

• Name	John DE FOXLEY
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	Abt 1260
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Baron of the Exchequer
  Died	1325	Bray, Berkshire, England
  Person ID	I40485	Main
  Last Modified	9 May 2016

  
  

  Family	Constancia DE BRAMSHILL,   b. Abt 1277,   d. 1333  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Children	+ 1. Sir Thomas DE FOXLEY,   b. Abt 1305, Berkshire, England ,   d. 1360, Bray, Berkshire, England  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Last Modified	9 May 2016
  Family ID	F28402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John Foxley's parentage is unknown. There is no evidence of any connection with the ancient house of Foxley of Foxley and Blakesley in Northamptonshire as has sometimes been conjectured, for the arms are quite different. John became a lawyer of some repute and  then a judge. In 1308, he was granted custody of the temporalities of the vacant abbacy of Westminster. On 28th February the following year, he was constituted a Baron of the Exchequer in place of the late Roger de Hegham, and he may also have been knighted around this time. Besides performing the duties of that court, he was frequently named in commissions, and appointed to take inquests by the parliament, and called upon to act as a justice of assize and of oyer and terminer in the provinces; and also in the perambulations of the forests. Towards the end of his career, he was appointed to administer the estate of the magnificent Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham. He resigned his Exchequer post in 1322, when he was replaced by Roger Beler, but continued to be employed in a judicial character on his home ground in the counties of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jfoxleysr.html