Constituency Dates
Leicester 1397 (Jan.)
Family and Education
s. of William Humberston senior, of Leicester, merchant. m. bef. Sept. 1392, Margaret, da. of John Tansley, wid. of John Samon of Nottingham, 1da.
Offices Held

Mayor, Leicester Mich. 1398–9, 1410–11.1Leicester Bor. Recs. ed. Bateson, ii. 211, 411; Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. ed. Thompson, nos. 567–8.

Address
Main residence: Leicester.
biography text

A member of a prominant Leicester family, Roger was a brother of the mercer, William Humberston, MP in 1378 and mayor in 1389-90, and possibly an uncle of Ralph Brasier alias Humberston.2Roll of Mayors ed. Hartopp, 23, 25, 27. As a leading figure in the Corpus Christi guild, he was involved in 1392 in the foundation of the chantry at St. Martin’s. He also appears to have been a trustee of certain lands belonging to the Newarke college and hospital.3CPR, 1399-1401, p. 371; CP25(1)126/73/22, 24.

Humberston owned a considerable amount of property in the borough and suburbs, including a tenement, two messuages, six cottages and various plots of land. In December 1416 he was pardoned the forfeiture of his goods and chattels as a result of his outlawry in the court of husting in London at the suit of the executors of John More, mercer.4Leicester Bor. Recs. ii. 199, 300, 411, 413; Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. nos. 565, 569; CCR, 1402-5, p. 164; DL42/17 (2), ff. 54v, 55. He is not recorded after 1418.

Author
C.K.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Notes
  • 1. Leicester Bor. Recs. ed. Bateson, ii. 211, 411; Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. ed. Thompson, nos. 567–8.
  • 2. Roll of Mayors ed. Hartopp, 23, 25, 27.
  • 3. CPR, 1399-1401, p. 371; CP25(1)126/73/22, 24.
  • 4. Leicester Bor. Recs. ii. 199, 300, 411, 413; Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. nos. 565, 569; CCR, 1402-5, p. 164; DL42/17 (2), ff. 54v, 55.