Constable Of Knaresburgh Castle

5 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. Miles de Stapelton 1302–1307 ×14
   • 1302-07-13 — To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to elected in place of Thomas de Chabbenor, as the king learns that he is by blindness. : J…
   • 1303-06-04 — the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that to be elected in place of the sheriff, whom the king has caused to from the office of coroner, to …
   • 1303-07-28 — Miles de Stapelton, constable of Knaresburgh castle, or to him who his place.
   • 1304-04-13 — To Miles de Stapelton, constable of Knaresburgh castle and keeper of the king's forest there. Order to cause oaks to be felled and sold in the forest to the val…
   • 1304-09-16 — Miles de Stapelton, constable of Knaresburgh castle.
   • 1305-10-20 — Mandate to Bertinus de Friscobaldis and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Friscobaldi of Florence, to pay out of the custom in their hands to John Be…
   • 1307-03-28 — To the justices of the Bench. John de Wygeton has shown the king his petition before the king's council that whereas he impleads John, of Carlisle, before them …
   • undated — To Miles de Stapelton, constable of Knaresburgh castle and: keeper of ) the king's forest there. Order to cause oaks and other great trees to the value of 80/. …
2. Nicholas de Gray 1318 ×2
   • 1318-01-28 — To Nicholas de Gray, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to place the castle 10 men-at-arms and 30 fencible footmen for the defence thereof, to pay them thei…
   • 1318-02-01 — Order to proceed to do justice in the before them between Hugh de Courteneye and Walter de Twynham and concerning the advowson of the church of Brigham, the kin…
3. Roger de Amory 1318 ×2
   • 1318-03-06 — To Roger Dammory, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to keep men-at-arms and 30 fencible footmen in the castle at the king's wages, the defence of the same,…
   • 1318-03-06 — Roger Dammory, constable of Knaresburgh castle.
4. John de Wysham 1318–1322 ×14
   • 1318-05-28 — To John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to put horsemen and footmen in the castle at the king's wages for the defence thereof, by the advice o…
   • 1318-05-28 — To John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to put horsemen and footmen in the castle at the king's wages for the defence thereof, by the advice o…
   • 1318-09-05 — To John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to repair houses of the castle, the pond and mills, and the palings of the parks by the view and testi…
   • 1318-09-25 — Order to deliver to de Bogheles the custody of a moiety of the manor of Wardon, which to William le Coynte, Isabella's late husband, tenant in chief, and delive…
   • 1320-02-05 — To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to pay to John de Fenwyk marks for Martinmas term last of the 40 marks yearly granted to him the issues of that county by t…
   • 1320-10-03 — To John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to repair king's houses of the castle and his pond and mills, and the palings his parks there where ne…
   • 1322-02-13 — The like to the following : ; John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle, or to him who supplies his place. Henry de Percy, constable of Scardeburgh castle…
   • 1322-02-13 — The like to the following : John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle, or to him who supplies his place. Henry de Percy, constable of Scardeburgh castle. …
5. William fitz Waryn 1330

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: “constable of Knaresburgh Castle”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/constable-of-knaresburgh-castle, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.