Family and Education
b. Dynevor and; bap. Llandyfeisant, Carm. 26 Jan. 1338, s. and h. of Reynold Fitzherbert (c.1312-1346) of Midsomer Norton, Som. by Joan, da. of Sir Edmund Hakluyt of Dynevor. m. bef. Dec. 1365, Joan (d. 1 Jan. 1393), s.p. Kntd. bef. Aug. 1372.
Offices Held
J.p. Dorset 5 July – Dec. 1375.
Sheriff, Som. and Dorset 4 Oct. 1375 – 26 Oct. 1376, 24 Nov. 1382 – 1 Nov. 1383, Surr. and Suss. 25 Nov. 1378–5 Nov. 1379.
Commr. of inquiry, Dorset Oct. 1375 (services due to Frampton priory), Kent, Mdx., Surr., Suss. Feb. 1382 (wastes, temporalities of abpric.); array, Dorset Apr., July 1377, Mar. 1380, Suss. Apr. 1385; to make proclamation forbidding unlawful assemblies and put down insurgents, Surr., Suss. July, Oct. 1381, Suss. Dec. 1381, Dec. 1382; of sewers May 1382; arrest, Som. 1383.
Tax collector, Suss. Dec. 1380.
Main residences: Hinton Martell, Dorset; Ewhurst, Suss.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
FITZHERBERT, Sir Edmund (1338-87)
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Oxford 1644
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