Constable Of Somerton Castle

4 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. Henry de Bello Monte 1316 ×3
   • 1316-01-18 — To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to receive the said prisoners and to take them to Sumerton castle according to the directions of the king's yeomen Philip de…
   • 1316-01-18 — To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to receive the said prisoners and to take them to Sumerton castle according to the directions of the king's yeomen Philip de…
2. John de Baryngton 1323 ×2
   • 1323-08-18 — To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to pay to John de Baryngton, constable of Somerton castle, 10 marks for his expenses about mowing the king's demesne corn of th…
3. John Crabbe 1336–1347 ×5
   • 1336-03-23 — The like to the following in the following counties, to wit: Thomas de Langele and John de Benham in cos. Oxford, Berks and Buckingham. John de Tothill in co. C…
   • 1336-03-23 — To Simon de Grymesby and Gilbert de Ledred. Order to deliver all the of Hugh de Freyne and Alesia countess of Lincoln, whom Hugh in cos. Lincoln, Northampton an…
   • 1347-08-20 — Mandate to the said Stephen or to him who supplies his place, to receive said prisoners from the constable of the Tower, take them to Notingham and keep them ba…
   • 1347-08-25 — Mandate to the said Stephen or to him who supplies his place, to receive the said prisoners from the constable of the Tower, take them to Notingham castle and k…
4. Thomas de Brantyngham 1372
   • 1372-07-10 — To Thomas de Brantyngham constable of Somerton castle, or to lieutenant there. Order to take of Thomas de Ryby and Agnes wife security that they will henceforth…

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