Sir
William
de Shareshull
formerly Shareshull
Born about in Shareshull, Staffordshire, England
Son of Adam Shareshull
and Katherine (Unknown) Hodington
Husband of
Denise Purcell
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Denise (Boteler) Shareshull
— married
after 26 Sep 1356 in England
Descendants 
Father of
Joan (Shareshull) de Harcourt and Agnes (Shareshull) Abberbury
Died
at about age 76
in Oxfordshire, England
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Biography
William Shareshull was born about 1294.
William married twice:
- Denise, daughter of Otwell Purcell,[1] with whom William had children:
- Sir William Shareshull of Patshull, Staffordshire, died by 1367, married Joan, daughter of Henry Power of Somerset;[2]
- Agnes Shareshull, 3rd daughter, married circa 1353 to Sir Richard Adderbury of Donnington, Berkshire, and Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire;[1]
- Denise Boteler, married before November, 1367, died in 1376;[2]
William was an eminent lawyer whose many offices included chief baron of the Exchequer, justice of the common pleas, and chief justice of the King's Bench.[2]
William's only son and heir, Sir William Shareshull, predeceased him, after which by two deeds dated November, 1367, he settled his estates upon his second wife, Denise, with a reversion on her death to his grandson, Sir William Shareshull (died 1400), of Patshull, elected knight of the shire for Staffordshire in 1386 and 1395.[2]
William had built up extensive estates (after the 1367 settlement there were prolonged disputes over some of them), which included:[2]
- in the octaves of St Michael, 5 Edward III (6 October, 1331), a final concord was agreed at Westminster between complainants: William de Shareshull, by his attorney, William de Morton; and deforciants: John de Ipstones, chevaler, and Elizabeth his wife, and John's son, John de Ipstones; the complainants gave £100 to the deforciants for the acknowledgement by the deforciants that the manor of Blythewood, and twenty-four shillings rent in Tene, Staffordshire, belonged to the complainants, held of the chief lords of the fee by the accustomed services;[3]
- the prior of Kenilworth sold the ownership of Patshull, Staffordshire, to the judge in 1332;
- the manors of Shareshull, Coven, Brunsford, Great and Little Sardon and Overton in Staffordshire;
- the manor of Boninghall in Shropshire; and
- the manors of Barton Odonis, Rousham and Dernford in Oxfordshire.
William entered the Franciscan friary at Oxford after February, 1369.[2]
Sir William Shareshull of Barton, Oxfordshire, died in 1370.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 L S Woodger, "ADDERBURY (ABBERBURY), Sir Richard I (c.1331-1399)", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J S Roskell, L Clark, C Rawcliffe, (1993), History of Parliament online, (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/adderbury-%28abberbury%29-sir-richard-i-1331-1399 : accessed 15 September, 2018).
- ↑ Hon and Rev George Bridgeman, "The History of the Parish of Blymhill, Part I," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Ed, The William Salt Archaeological Society, (1880), I:299, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi01staf_0#page/298 : accessed 15 September, 2018).
See also:
- Wikipedia contributors, "William de Shareshull," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_de_Shareshull&oldid=708499553 : accessed 19 March, 2016).
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 51 Shareshull, William de by Walter Eustace Rhodes
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William was born 1289/98 died 1370.
[It is thought that the documented relationship between William I Shareshull and the Montague family was through Katherine. - CPR 26 June 1346 Porchester. William de Shareshull, was described as a justice of the Common Bench, councillor and KINSMAN OF WILLIAM DE MONTAGUE, EARL OF SALISBURY when he bore witness at an inquest.
Married [1] Denise alias Dionisia Purcel, daughter of Otwel II Purcel and Beatrice Unknown, c1316, died 1353x1357 Married [2] Denise alias Dionisia Boteler 1357.
Father of William II Shareshull, Katherine, never married, Elizabeth, married Thomas Astley and Agnes, married Richard Abberbury.
Brother of Adam Shareshull, John Shareshull, Robert Sharshull and Joan Shareshull
[Oxford Dictionary National Biography by Richard W. Kaeuper] William Shareshull, the justice, was born 1289/90 in Staffordshire, possibly Walsall, into a family which may have ranked among the lesser gentry; a younger son of Adam Shareshull and Katherine. His highly successful career brought him estates in the counties of Oxford, Stafford, Worcester and Shropshire. He married twice, soon after 1316 and again in the summer of 1357, each time to a woman named Dionisia. His first marriage probably linked him to the Purcells, a family of slightly higher status than his own. His second marriage, to the daughter and heir of William Bottiler, greatly extended his landholding. His only son, William, predeceased him. His three daughters, Katherine, Elizabeth and Agnes, made what were considered good marriages, reflecting their father’s social rise. Early in 1369 William entered the Francisian convent in Oxford as a novice where he died before the end of 1370.
William Shareshull first appears in the records as one of the defendants at the Coram Rege Michaelmas 3EIII held at Stafford. He was named the nineth of 32 men who were attached to answer the plea of Walter le Marchis, that they had thrown down his fence at Blockeswych on the Sunday after the Feast of the Close of Easter 2EII [1310] and for which he claimed 100s. as damages. Most of the defendants denied the injury, and ----------- , WILLIAM DE SHARESHULL, ------------ stated that they were tenants in the vill of Waleshale, of which Blockeswych is a hamlet, and they had common appurtenant to it in the said vill, and the said Walter had recently raised a fence on the said common to exclude their cattle, and they had thrown it down as was lawful, and they appealed to a jury. The said Walter admitted that the said William and the others above named were tenants in Waleshale, but denied that they had rights of common, ----------------.
“Collections for a History of Staffordshire.” Volume 10, page 6. Online at https://archive.org/details/collectionsforhi10stafuoft/
William’s first recorded professional appearance was in the Court of Common Pleas, Michaelmas, 1316, as an attorney for Otwell Purcel and Beatrice his wife in their claim of land in Tingewik, co. Buckingham, part of the inheritance of Beatrice, to go eventually to their daughter Denise, the wife of William.
William de Shareshull was to receive the first great advance in his profession, namely that of a degree of a sergeant-in-law 1321/22. The second great advance in his profession, was his appointment to the court of Common Pleas, May 1333, just before that court was moved to Yorkshire for five years, and was appointed as the King's sergeant-in-law.
Reference. “Sir William Shareshull, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench 1350-1361, A Study of Judicial and Administrative Methods in the Reign of Edward III.” By Bertha Haven Putman. Published by Cambridge University Press 1950.
William's move to York with the court in confirmed by the following entry in the Patent Rolls.
[CPR EIII] 2 November 1333 Marlborough. Commission of oyer of terminer to ------------------------------, on complaint of William Shareshull that William de Harecourt, knight, Richard de Harecourt, knight, and others, carried away his goods and assaulted his servants at York.
Professor Putum records [Chapter III, page 30] - "The chronology of Shareshull's active life under Edward III can be divided into three parts."
"[1] 1327-1342. A period of slowly increasing prestige that was shattered temporarily by his arrest, along with many other justices. [The arrest followed the king's unexpected return from France, December 1340, and of his indignation at the lack of the promised financial aid by the parliament for the ongoing war with France, and also finding the Tower unguarded. William Shareshull was kept in some captivity or exile in Wales, with no specific charges laid against him. William was restored to favour and returned to the bench in February 1342.] "
"[2] 1342-1361. A period of increasing prestige, ending with the climax of the chief justiceship of the king's bench for 11 years, 1359-1361. On the 2 July 1344, William was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and on the 15 January 1346 was reappointed to the Court of Common Pleas. The climax of William's judicial career came on the 20 October 1350 when he was called to be the Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Contrary to the erroneous belief that he either resigned or was dismissed in July 1357, William continued to act as the chief justice until April 1361; when he was succeeded by Henry Greene."
"[3] 1361-1367. A period of decreasing public service. After his retirement from the king's bench and from the circuit of the assize, and aged as he was, William was to become an important part as one the Black Prince's councillors until 1365, his main duties were judicial and financial. The long continued reliance of the Black Prince on Shareshull, even in the latter's old age, proves that like the king his father, he had very great confidence in the chief justice."