Constable Of Windesore Castle

3 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. Geoffrey de Picheford 1276–1284 ×7
   • 1276-06-17 — To Geoffrey de Pichford, constable of Windesore castle. Order to John de Char, whom the king lately sent to him, in the king's there, and to cause him to have h…
   • 1276-07-25 — To Geoffrey de Picheford, constable of Windesore castle. Whereas certain purprestures are made upon the king in the forest of Windesore whereof tithes have not …
   • 1278-05-17 — Order to cause Thomas Charles, brother of Robert Charles, deceased, to have seisin of the manor of Ayleston, to be held in name of custody, and to permit Thomas…
   • 1278-07-11 — To the sheriff of Gloucestér. Order not to intermeddle hereafter with the custody of the lands that belonged to Jordan Bisshop, which were taken into the king's…
   • 1284-03-04 — Order to Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Windesore castle, after taking [security] from Giles de la Garderobe and his coexecutors of the will of Imbert de M…
2. Ralph de Camoys 1324 ×3
   • 1324-03-30 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Henry de Cobeham has shewn by his petition before the king and his council that whereas he ought to have received …
   • 1324-04-02 — To Ralph de Cammoys, constable of Windesore castle, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver Nicholas de Clare, who is imprisoned in that castle by th…
3. John de Insula 1328 ×3
   • 1328-10-25 — The like in favour of the following : Conrad de Affelyn, merchant of Almain, for 38/. 12s. 4d., addressed to the collectors in the port aforesaid. John Blundel,…
   • 1328-11-24 — To John de Insula, constable of Windesore castle and keeper of the manor of Kenyngton. Order to cause the houses, walls, and other buildings of the castle and m…

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