Sheriff Of Oxford

Oxford. 23 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. Nicholas de Henred' 1253 ×6
   • undated — Appointment, during pleasure, of Imbert Pugeys, to the keeping of the of Oxford, and mandate to Nicholas de Hanrede, sheriff of Oxford, deliver it to him.
   • undated — to pay the king's brother Guy de Lezingnan at the exchequer of next 100/. as a gift. : to John de Amblion, king's clerk, dean of Monte St. Andrea, in papal chap…
2. Nicholas de Hanrad 1256
3. Nicholas Sifrewast 1259
4. Sampson Foliot 1267 ×2
5. Thomas de Sancto Vigore 1270
6. Henry de Shotesbrok 1276–1278 ×4
   • 1276-05-18 — Commission to Francis son of Acus' (Accursii) and Nicholas de Stapleton to enquire and do justice as to the plaint of the Jews of Oxford that Henry de Shotesbro…
   • 1276-05-18 — Commission to Francis son of Acus (Accursii) and Nicholas de Stapleton to enquire and do justice as to the plaint of the Jews of Oxford that Henry de Shotesbrok…
   • 1278-01-18 — To the same. Order to respite until the quinzaine of Easter next up to 201. of the arrears of the account of Henry de Shotesbrok, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, a…
7. John de Tedemersh 1282 ×2
   • 1282-02-08 — The like to Master Thomas de Sodington and Eustace de Hache, touch- Amney. ing the persons who assaulted John de Tedemershe, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, and hi…
8. John de Thedemers 1283 ×2
   • 1283-08-02 — Acquittance to William le Povere and Master William de Burmigham, clerk, tax-collectors of the thirtieth in the county of Oxford, and to John de Thedmers, sheri…
9. John de Thedmersh 1283 ×2
   • 1283-08-20 — Order to cause John de Thedemershe, sheriff of Oxford, to have in the park of Wodestok four oaks fit for timber for the works of the castle of Oxford. Schedule.
10. Thomas de Anvers 1288
    • 1288-04-08 — Order to cause Thomas de Anvers, sheriff of Oxford, to have in the king's wood of Paunsehal, within the forest aforesaid, six oaks fit for timber for the execut…
11. Nicholas de Spershet 1305 ×2
    • 1305-02-19 — Commitment during pleasure to Nicholas de Spershete, sheriff of Oxford, of the castle of Oxford.
    • 1305-02-19 — Order to the escheator on this side Trent to go in person to Oxford and take into the king's hand the castle of Oxford if it be not in the king's hand, and to d…
12. John de Wroxhale 1332 ×2
    • 1332-09-19 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow John de Wroxhale, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, to make his proffer at the present Michaelmas by one…
    • 1332-09-19 — Order to allow John de Wroxhale, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, to make his proffer at the present Michaelmas by one of his clerks, as he is intending divers affa…
13. John de Alveton 1337–1345 ×16
    • 1337-05-30 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Alveton, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, to have respite until the morrow of Martinmas next fo…
    • 1337-05-30 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John Alveton, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, to have respite until the of Martinmas next for his acco…
    • 1337-10-16 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive Adam de Dene and Robert Lok as the attorneys of John de Alveton, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, to …
    • 1338-12-06 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver Robert clerk, to Nicholas de la Beche, constable of the Tower of London, be imprisoned there unti…
    • 1338-12-06 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver Robert clerk, to Nicholas de la Beche, constable of the Tower of London, be imprisoned there unti…
    • 1339-07-20 — Commission to Nicholas de Bokelond and John de Alveton, sheriff of Oxford, to survey the horses, mares and foals of the king's stud on this side Trent and to va…
    • 1339-10-04 — To Nicholas de Bokelond and John de Alveton, sheriff of Oxford. to answer to the king for the money arising from the sale of horses, and foals of the stud this …
    • 1339-10-04 — Nicholas de Bokelond and John de Alveton, sheriff of Oxford. to answer to the king for the money arising from the sale of horses, and foals of the stud this sid…
14. John Laundels 1349–1350 ×5
    • 1349-04-16 — To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pay to Nicholas de la Despense, the king's yeoman, or to his attorney, 10/. for Easter term last, in accordance…
    • 1349-04-27 — To John Laundels, sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order not to interfurther with a messuage, a carucate of land, 8 acres of meadow and for 9 oxen in Langeford, res…
    • 1350-06-16 — The like to the following ; John Laundeles, sheriff of Oxford, and the same William. John Blount, sheriff of Stafford, and the same William. Robert Corbet, sher…
    • 1350-06-16 — The like to the following ; John Laundeles, sheriff of Oxford, and the same William. John Blount, sheriff of Stafford, and the same William. Robert Corbet, sher…
15. Roger de Elinerugge 1361–1362 ×3
    • 1362-08-23 — To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order to receive Roger de Hakebourne, whom Roger de Elinerugge sheriff of Oxford and Berks has before the king…
16. Roger de Cotesford 1365 ×2
    • 1365-06-28 — . 133 To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order, upon petition of Roger de Cotesford sheriff of Oxford and Berks, if by of the keepers of Wyndesor…
17. Edmund de Stonore 1378 ×2
    • 1378-07-06 — Commission to Reginald Malyns, Edmund de Stonore, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, John Hereford, serjeant-at-arms, John Gibbes, mayor of Oxford, Thomas Somerset an…
    • 1378-07-28 — Commission to J. bishop of Hereford, the chancellor of the University of Oxford, Robert Tresulian, Reginald de Malyns, Edmund de Stonore, sheriff of Oxford and …
18. Gilbert Wace 1380 ×2
    • 1380-04-26 — To the sheriffs of London. Writ of swpersedeas, by mainprise of John Bokerell, John Gy, Thomas Wyke and John Henry of Somerset, in favour of John Rushton at sui…
    • 1380-05-08 — the sheriff of Lincoln. Writ of supersedeas, by mainprise of de Carleton, Robert de Grantham, Roger Shirre and Thomas of Lincolnshire, in favour of John de Beve…
19. John James 1381
    • 1381-05-06 — Appointment of Richard Adredebury, Baldwin de Bereford, John Herle, John James, the sheriff of Oxford, Edmund Giffard and Walter atte Halle to enquire who kille…
20. Thomas Barentyn 1387
    • 1387-02-20 — Appointment of John Lovell and Richard de Abberbury, knights, and Thomas Barentyn, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, reciting that on information that divers Irish ,…
21. Thomas Chaucer 1405
    • 1405-02-20 — Pardon to the king's esquire Thomas Chaucer, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, and constable of the castle of Walyngford, of all victuals in divers offices of the ho…

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: “sheriff of Oxford”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/sheriff-of-oxford, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.