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'''Henry de la River''' of [[Tormarton]] in [[Gloucestershire]], was a [[Member of Parliament|Member]] (MP) of the [[Parliament of England]] for [[Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)|Gloucestershire]] in 1394.<ref>History of Parliament Online: Henry de la River [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/river-sir-henry-de-la-1400 online]</ref><ref>Members of Parliament: Parliaments of England, 1213-1702 By Great Britain. Parliament pg 247 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1g85AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=Members+of+Parliament:+Parliaments+of+England,+1213-1702&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQuwUwAGoVChMIt9e-k97tyAIVCZYeCh0APAtP#v=onepage&q&f=false on line]</ref> |
'''Henry de la River''' of [[Tormarton]] in [[Gloucestershire]], was a [[Member of Parliament|Member]] (MP) of the [[Parliament of England]] for [[Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)|Gloucestershire]] in 1394.<ref>History of Parliament Online: Henry de la River [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/river-sir-henry-de-la-1400 online]</ref><ref>Members of Parliament: Parliaments of England, 1213-1702 By Great Britain. Parliament pg 247 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1g85AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=Members+of+Parliament:+Parliaments+of+England,+1213-1702&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQuwUwAGoVChMIt9e-k97tyAIVCZYeCh0APAtP#v=onepage&q&f=false on line]</ref> <ref>"The parliamentary history of the county of Gloucester, including the cities of Bristol and Gloucester, and the boroughs of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1898" By W. R. WILLIAMS, Hereford, 1898 pg 39[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494953/cu31924030494953_djvu.txt on line]</ref> |
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He came of age before 1384, when he served as tax collector for Gloucestershire. He was also knighted before 1384. He inherited Tormarton not long after. He was a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire from 15 July 1389 to June 1390, and again from 24 Dec. 1390 to July 1397. He was [[High Sheriff of Gloucestershire]] between 21 Oct. 1391 and 18 Oct. 1392. He served as the MP for Gloucestershire for a single term, elected in 1394. In 1398 he obtained royal confirmation of the charters granted to his ancestor in Henry III’s time. He was again appointed Sheriff of Gloucestershire on 3 Nov. 1399 and was replaced on10 July 1400, suggesting that he may have died in office. |
He came of age before 1384, when he served as tax collector for Gloucestershire. He was also knighted before 1384. He inherited Tormarton not long after. He was a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire from 15 July 1389 to June 1390, and again from 24 Dec. 1390 to July 1397. He was [[High Sheriff of Gloucestershire]] between 21 Oct. 1391 and 18 Oct. 1392. He served as the MP for Gloucestershire for a single term, elected in 1394. In 1398 he obtained royal confirmation of the charters granted to his ancestor in Henry III’s time. He was again appointed Sheriff of Gloucestershire on 3 Nov. 1399 and was replaced on10 July 1400, suggesting that he may have died in office. |
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Henry de la River of Tormarton in Gloucestershire, was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Gloucestershire in 1394.[1][2] [3]
He came of age before 1384, when he served as tax collector for Gloucestershire. He was also knighted before 1384. He inherited Tormarton not long after. He was a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire from 15 July 1389 to June 1390, and again from 24 Dec. 1390 to July 1397. He was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire between 21 Oct. 1391 and 18 Oct. 1392. He served as the MP for Gloucestershire for a single term, elected in 1394. In 1398 he obtained royal confirmation of the charters granted to his ancestor in Henry III’s time. He was again appointed Sheriff of Gloucestershire on 3 Nov. 1399 and was replaced on10 July 1400, suggesting that he may have died in office.
With his first (unknown) wife he had a son and heir, Thomas de la River,who married Isabel, Countess of Wiltshire (as widow of William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, who was executed in 1399), daughter of Sir Maurice Russell.
His second wife was Constance, widow first of Sir Henry Percy of Great Chalfield, Wiltshire,(who died in Cologne in 1357 while on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, said to be because of the "naughty lyf" she lived with "Maister Robert Wayvile, bishoppe of Salisbury" and others); widow secondly of John Percy (neighbor of, but not related to, her first husband) of Little Chalfield, Wiltshire, who died in 1359; and widow thirdly of Sir Philip FitzWarin of Penleigh and Bratton, Wiltshire, who died about 1384. Constance outlived Henry de la River by about 20 years.[4]
References
- ^ History of Parliament Online: Henry de la River online
- ^ Members of Parliament: Parliaments of England, 1213-1702 By Great Britain. Parliament pg 247 on line
- ^ "The parliamentary history of the county of Gloucester, including the cities of Bristol and Gloucester, and the boroughs of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1898" By W. R. WILLIAMS, Hereford, 1898 pg 39on line
- ^ John Silvester Davies, ed., The Tropenell Cartulary: being the contents of an old Wiltshire muniment chest, 2 vols. (Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1908) as text or as images
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