Constable Of Nottingham Castle

Nottingham Castle. 6 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. William de Herlaston 1278 ×3
   • 1278-05-29 — c?. The like to Henry de Notingham and William de Herleston, constable of Nottingham castle, by jury as well of Christians as of Jews, touching Henecota, Jewess…
   • 1278-05-29 — The like to Henry de Notingham and William de Herleston, constable of Nottingham castle, by jury as well of Christians as of Jews, touching Henecota, Jewess of …
2. John de Segrave 1322 ×2
   • 1322-04-06 — To the same. Order to assign dower to Idonia, late the wife of the said upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence. To John de Segrave, consta…
   • 1322-04-10 — To John de Segrave, constable of Nottingham castle. Order to cause de Holand, Waiter de Kirkebrid, and John his brother, Adam de Gilbert de Haydok and William T…
3. Richard de Grey 1327 ×3
   • 1327-10-26 — Grant that, on any voidance of the priory of Lenton, no escheator or other miuister shall enter thereon, or intermeddle with its possessions; but that, at the r…
   • 1327-11-08 — Grant that, on any voidance of the priory of Lenton, no escheator or other miuister shall enter thereon, or intermeddle with its possessions; but that, at the r…
4. William de Eland 1330–1336 ×14
   • 1330-11-26 — Mandate in pursuanco to William de Eland, constable of Nottingham Castle. 26.
   • 1330-12-18 — Mandate in pursuanc to William de Eland, constable of Nottingham Castle.
   • 1333-02-07 — To William de Eland, constable of Nottingham castle. William, archbishop of York, has besought the king, by his petition before him and his council in parliamen…
   • 1333-02-07 — To William de Eland, constable of Nottingham castle. William, archof York, has besought the king, by his petition before him and his in parliament, that as the …
   • 1333-12-22 — William de Eland, constable of Nottingham castle. Order not to with the priory of Lenton or its temporalities, restoring the thereof to the prior there without …
   • 1333-12-22 — To William de Eland, constable of Nottingham castle. Order not to with the priory of Lenton or its temporalities, restoring the thereof to the prior there witho…
   • 1336-06-20 — To the same. Order to cause the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby to have due allowance up to 29/. 6s. 9d., by the view and testimony of William de Eland, constab…
   • 1336-06-20 — To the same. Order to cause the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby to have due allowance up to 29/. 6s. 9d., by the view and testimony of William de Eland, constab…
5. Stephen Rummylowe 1359
   • 1359-09-24 — To Stephen Rummylowe, constable of Nottingham castle, or to him who supplies his place there. Order to deliver the said John de Molyns by indenture to William d…

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