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Clement Fitzleones

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In 1499 Fitzleones, having regained the Crown's trust, was made Attorney General, or "King's Attorney in all Courts" as the patent describes him, where he is called Clement Leones. The reference to "all Courts" is unusual: previous Attorneys were usually licensed to appear in specific courts. By 1505
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as Chief Baron. Oliver, who owed his appointment solely to his father's great influence, was not only lacking in legal training, but was apparently mentally deficient and incapable of speech. In 1494 Wyse was replaced by
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in 1477-1478, 1482-1483 and 1494-1495. Patrick was clearly a man of considerable wealth and social standing, who married into the powerful Eustace family, and subsequently married his daughter Margaret to
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was appointed Serjeant. While two serjeants occasionally acted at the same time, as a rule, there was only one, which suggests that Fitzleoenes had recently died.
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Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin in the time of Archbishops Tregury and Walton 1457-1483
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Neither Ball nor Hart gave any details of his family background, but there was a prominent
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was considered suspect, and Fitzleones was presumably removed at the same time.
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he had been promoted to the more senior office of King's Serjeant. In 1509
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since the thirteenth century, and a landowning family of the same name in
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Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin
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Index

1509
Serjeant-at-law (Ireland)
Attorney-General for Ireland
Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer
merchant
Dublin
County Meath
Augustinian Friary of Holy Trinity
Patrick FitzLeones
Lord Mayor of Dublin
John Barnewall, 3rd Baron Trimlestown
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Constables
John Wyse
Oliver FitzEustace
Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester
Walter Ivers
Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland
Tudor dynasty
Patrick Finglas
Trinity College Dublin
Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.106
A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c.1244-1509, published by Trinity College Dublin Entry 3 - 25 October 1499
Entry 4 - 4 November 1499
Ball p.188
Categories
Attorneys-general for Ireland
Lawyers from Dublin (city)
15th-century Irish judges
15th-century births

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