Baron Of Sandwich

Sandwich. 2 recorded holders. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. John de Sere 1273 ×2
   • 1273-07-18 — To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England, by the permission of his subjects supplying his place in England…
2. Laurence Elys undated
   • undated — To the bailiffs of Boston. Order to supersede until further orders the execution of the king's late order to arrest goods and wares of merchants of Flanders to …

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “baron of Sandwich”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/baron-of-sandwich, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.