John de Braideston (died after 1334) was an English Crown official who also served as a judge in Ireland.[1]
His name suggests that he was born in Braydeston, a deserted medieval village close to Brundall, Norfolk: the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Braydeston still survives.[1] He is first heard of in Kent in 1323, when he was in business as a corn merchant.[1] In 1327 he was steward to Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the following year he sat on a commission of oyer and terminer in Surrey, suggesting that he was a qualified lawyer (in Ireland at least this was not at the time a requirement to be a Baron of the Court of Exchequer).[1]
He was sent to Ireland as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1329 and served in that office for two years.[1] In 1330 John de Mohun appointed Braideston and his colleague John de Grauntsete as his attorneys. Braideston returned to England shortly after, and was still living in 1334.[1]
References
edit- Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926
- Patent Rolls 4 Edward III