Stephen de Segrave Baron of Segrave

  General Notes:

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage (Segrave). Beginning around 1200 Stephen held many minor offices and performed a variety of services for King John & King Henry III.

In 1229 he was Chief Justice. In 1230, Hubert de Burgh, the Justiciar, having crossed to France with the King, entrusted the government of the realm to Stephen and the Bishop of Chichester. In 1230 Stephen was sheriff of 5 counties. In 1231 he and the Bishop of Chichester heard the dispute between The King and the citizens of London. In 1231/2 he was sent to the marches to put in order irregularities after the truce with Llewlyn the Great. Upon the fall of Hubert de Burgh in 1232, Stephen was made Justiciar of England. In 1233, with Piers, Bishop of Winchester and Robert Passelewe, he was advising King Henry II on all matters of state. In 1234 Stephen fell from The King's favor, but by 1239 was recalled to the council and was busily occuopied in its affairs in spite of his age, becoming the King's chief counsellor. Also mentioned in Cokayne's Complete Peerage (Despenser).⁷⁴⁸

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 8th edition, 16B:25, m. 1st, Rohese Despenser, daughter of thomas Despenser and sister of Hugh Despenser, m. 2nd Ella de Hastings, sister of Henry de Hastings, and she m. 2nd, Hugh de Peche. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁰
Stephen de Segrave was the Constable of the Tower of London, 5 John, and remained faithful to that Monarch in his conflicts with the barons. He obtained a grant, 17 John, of the lands of Stephen de Gant, in the counties of Lincolnshire and Leiciestershire; with the manor of Kintone, in Warwickshire. In 4 Henry III, he was made governor of Subey Castle, Leicestershire, and the next year constituted sheriff of Essex and Hertford, and later Leicestershire. In 8 Henry III, he bought the manor of Cotes, in Derby, from the daughters and heirs of Stephen de Beauchamp. He then purchased the land at Mount Soreli, Leicester, from ranulph, earl of Cheshire and Lincolnshire.

Stephen was in the king's council for several years as well as the chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and in 16 Henry III, he succeded Hubert de Burgh in the office of Justiciary of England, being at the same time consituted governor of Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, and Constable of the Tower of London. He died in 1241 and was succeeded by his son, Gilbert.
~~Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of The Peerages . . ., Vol. I, pp. 475-476

Stephen married Rohese le Despenser, daughter of Thomas le Despenser and Unknown.