This article contains a list of the known knights of the shire who represented Buckinghamshire in the Parliament of England and similar bodies of lesser status between 1290 and 1660. It also includes details of Parliaments from 1265 to which elected knights of the shires were summoned.
The parliamentary electoral constituency, representing the historic county of Buckinghamshire, was created in (1265): see Montfort's Parliament for further details and History of Buckinghamshire for maps of the historic county. This county constituency was represented by two knights of the shire until 1832 and three 1832–1885.
Knights of the shire are known to have been summoned to most parliaments from 1290 (19th Parliament of King Edward I of England) and to every one from 1320 (19th Parliament of King Edward II of England).
Although at some periods several Parliaments were held in a year, at others there were considerable gaps between Parliaments. Knights of the shire were also summoned to meetings which have not been classified as Parliaments by modern expert opinion. The names of the members in some Parliaments are not known.
The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). The years used for parliaments in this article have been converted to the new style where necessary. Old style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March, for example the Parliament of 18 March 1313 – 9 May 1313 (new style) would be 18 March 1312 – 9 May 1313 (old style). No attempt has been made to compensate for the eleven days which did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories (when the day after 2 September was 14 September), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar.
The names of knights of the shire, taken from the list in The History and Antiquities of Buckinghamshire by George Lipscomb (unless a volume from the History of Parliament Trust on the House of Commons at a particular period is available), are given in alphabetical order for each group of representatives.
There are some minor variations in names from the source used, which unless the contrary is known, are assumed to relate to the same person. It is possible that some entries relate to different persons of the same name. Where such cases have been identified the persons have been distinguished by a Roman number after the name (in order of first election); except where the number used to distinguish different candidates of the same name during the same period, by the authors of the books on the House of Commons mention in the references section, are used.
As the dates of Parliaments came from a twentieth century source and the names of persons elected came from Lipscomb (published between 1831 and 1847) it was sometimes impossible to be certain, from those sources, who served in a Parliament and who attended other meetings accorded lesser status. There is also some uncertainty as to whether Lipscomb did or did not use new style years and if so whether the method used in his list is consistent. An attempt has been made to give the best fit possible and to indicate the year (and if necessary the number within the year) from Lipscomb's list. The places of some Parliaments were indicated in footnotes to Lipscomb's list and are given here as they may assist with further research to confirm the link between specific knights of the shire and a particular Parliament.
The lists below commence with Montfort's Parliament in 1265, when for the first time elected representatives from counties (or shires), cities and boroughs were summoned to Parliament.
It is known that the Sheriffs of the English Counties were ordered to send knights of the shire to attend a number of Parliaments before 1265, but they were not required to have them chosen by election. No such summonses are known to have required the attendance of some citizens of cities or burgesses of other boroughs. Records of this sort of summons survive for the Oxford Parliament which was the 7th Parliament of King Henry III (assembled 27 October 1258 and presumed dissolved when writs de expensis were issued on 4 November 1258) and the 16th Parliament of the King (summoned 4 June 1264 and assembled 22 June 1264, although the date of dissolution is unknown).
The lists before 1320 exclude Parliaments to which elected commoners (representing the Commons or communities of England) were not known to have been summoned. All Parliaments are believed to have been held at Westminster, unless otherwise indicated.
No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | 1st member | 2nd member |
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1st (a) | 16 February 1275 | 1275 | 25 April 1275 | ... | unknown | unknown |
2nd (b) | 1 September 1275 | 1275 | 13 October 1275 | 24 October 1275 | unknown | unknown |
19th (c) | 13 June 1290 | 1290 | 15 July 1290 | ... | John de Pateshulle | William de Turville |
20th | ... | 1290 | 27 October 1290 | ... | unknown | unknown |
21st | ... | 1290–91 | 7 January 1291 | ... | unknown | unknown |
22nd | ... | 1291–92 | 8 January 1292 | ... | unknown | unknown |
25th | ... | ?1293 | > 29 March 1293 | ... | unknown | unknown |
26th | ... | 1293 | 13 October 1293 | ... | unknown | unknown |
27th | ... | 1293 | > 25 December 1293 | ... | unknown | unknown |
29th (d) | 30 September 1295+ | 1295 | 27 November 1295 | 4 December 1295 | Laurence de Bluntesdene | Roger de Tiringham |
30th | 26 August 1296 | 1296 | 3 November 1296 | 29 November 1296 | unknown | unknown |
33rd (e) | 6 October 1297 | 1297 | 15 September 1297 | 14 October 1297 | Robert Barry | Amery de Nowers |
34th (f) | 15 March 1298 | March 1298 | 30 March 1298 | ... | Laurence de Bluntesdene | John de Chetewood |
35th (g) | 10 April 1298 | 1298 | 25 May 1298 | ... | unknown | unknown |
39th (h) | 29 December 1299 | 1299–00 | 6 March 1300 | 20 March 1300 | Hugh de Chastillon | Robert Pogeys |
1300 | Gerard de Braybroke I | |||||
40th (i) | 26 September 1300 | 1300–01 | 20 January 1301 | 30 January 1301 | Gerard de Braybroke I | Hugh de Chastillon |
42nd (j) | 14 July 1302 | 1302 | 14 October 1302 | 21 October 1302 | John de Chetewood | William de Santresdon |
43rd (k) | 12 November 1304 | 1304–05 | 28 February 1305 | 20 March 1305 | Roger de Tyringham | John Neyrunt |
45th (l) | 5 April 1306 | 1306 | 30 May 1306 | 30 May 1306 | William Beauchamp | John Giffard |
46th (m) | 3 November 1306 | 1306–07 | 20 January 1307 | 19 March 1307 | Miles de Beauchamp | Ralph de Wedon |
Notes:-
No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | 1st member | 2nd member |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | 26 August 1307 | 1307 | 13 October 1307 | 16 October 1307 | unknown | unknown |
2nd | 19 January 1308 | 1308 | 3 March 1308 | ... | unknown | unknown |
5th (a) | 4 March 1309 | 1309 | 27 April 1309 | 13 May 1309 | Gerard de Braybroke II | John Giffard |
8th (b) | 16 June 1311 | 1311 | 8 August 1311 | 18 December 1311 | Ralph de Wedon | Robert Malet |
9th (c) | 3 June 1312 | 1312 | 20 August 1312 | 16 December 1312 | Ralph de Bellofago | Robert Malet |
10th (d) | 8 January 1313 | 1313 | 18 March 1313 | 9 May 1313 | Ralph de Wedon | Robert Malet |
11th (f) | 23 May 1313 | 1313 | 8 July 1313 | 27 July 1313 | Robert de Tothale | Robert Malet |
12th (g) | 26 July 1313 | 1313 | 23 September 1313 | 15 November 1313 | John de Adingrave | Masculin de Chastillon |
13th (h) | 29 July 1314 | 1314 | 9 September 1314 | 27/28 September 1314 | Miles de Beauchamp | Robert Malet |
14th (i) | 24 October 1314 | 1314–15 | 20 January 1315 | 9 March 1315 | unknown | unknown |
15th (j) | 16 October 1315 | 1315–16 | 27 January 1316 | 20 February 1316 | Nicholas de Turville | John Giffard de Boef |
16th | 24–25 August 1318 | 1318 | 20 October 1318 | 9 December 1318 | unknown | unknown |
17th (l) | 20 March 1319 | 1319 | 6 May 1319 | 25 May 1319 | John de la Haye | John de la Penne |
19th | 5 August 1320 | 1320 | 6 October 1320 | 25/26 October 1320 | unknown | unknown |
20th | 15 May 1321 | 1321 | 15 July 1321 | 22 August 1321 | unknown | unknown |
21st (m) | 14 March 1322 | 1322 | 2 May 1322 | 19 May 1322 | Ralph de Wedon | Robert Malet |
22nd (n) | 18 September 1322 | 1322 | 14 November 1322 | 29 November 1322 | Alan de Leaumes | Robert Malet |
23rd (o) | 20 November 1323 | 1323–24 | 23 February 1324 | 18 March 1324 | Philip de Aylesbury | Robert Malet |
24th (p) | 6 May 1325 | 1325 | 25 June 1325 | ... | Thomas de Sakevill | James Freysel |
25th | 10 October 1325 | 1325 | 18 November 1325 | 5 December 1325 | unknown | unknown |
26th (q) | 28 October 1326 | 1326–27 | 7 January 1327 | 20 January 1327 | Andrew de St. Liz | Robert Malet |
Note:-
No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | 1st member | 2nd member |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | ... | ... | ... | 9 March 1327 | unknown | unknown |
2nd | 7 August 1327 | 1327 | 15 September 1327 | 23 September 1327 | unknown | unknown |
3rd | 10 December 1327 | 1327–28 | 7 February 1328 | 5 March 1328 | unknown | unknown |
4th | 5 March 1328 | 1328 | 24 April 1328 | 14 May 1328 | unknown | unknown |
5th | 28 August 1328 | 1328 | 16 October 1328 | 22 February 1329 | unknown | unknown |
6th | 25 January 1330 | 1330 | 11 March 1330 | 21 March 1330 | unknown | unknown |
7th | 23 October 1330 | 1330 | 26 November 1330 | 9 December 1330 | unknown | unknown |
8th | 16 July 1331 | 1331 | 30 September 1331 | 9 October 1331 | unknown | unknown |
9th | 27 January 1332 | 1332 | 16 March 1332 | 21 March 1332 | unknown | unknown |
10th | 20 July 1332 | 1332 | 9 September 1332 | 12 September 1332 | unknown | unknown |
11th | 20 October 1332 | 1332 | 4 December 1332 | 27 January 1333 | unknown | unknown |
12th | 2 January 1334 | 1334 | 21 February 1334 | 2 March 1334 | unknown | unknown |
13th | 24 July 1334 | 1334 | 19 September 1334 | 23 September 1334 | unknown | unknown |
14th | 1 April 1335 | 1335 | 26 May 1335 | 3 June 1335 | unknown | unknown |
15th | 22 January 1336 | 1336 | 11 March 1336 | 20 March 1336 | unknown | unknown |
16th | 29 November 1336 | 1336–37 | 3 March 1337 | c.16 March 1337 | unknown | unknown |
17th | 20 December 1337 | 1337–38 | 3 February 1338 | 14 February 1338 | unknown | unknown |
18th | 15 November 1338 | 1338–39 | 3 February 1339 | 17 February 1339 | unknown | unknown |
19th | 25 August 1339 | 1339 | 13 October 1339 | c.3 November 1339 | unknown | unknown |
20th | 16 November 1339 | 1339–40 | 20 January 1340 | 19 February 1340 | unknown | unknown |
21st | 21 February 1340 | 1340 | 29 March 1340 | 10 May 1340 | unknown | unknown |
22nd | 30 May 1340 | 1340 | 12 July 1340 | 26 July 1340 | unknown | unknown |
23rd | 3 March 1341 | 1341 | 23 April 1341 | 27–28 May 1341 | unknown | unknown |
24th | 24 February 1343 | 1343 | 28 April 1343 | 20 May 1343 | unknown | unknown |
25th | 20 April 1344 | 1344 | 7 June 1344 | 28 June 1344 | unknown | unknown |
26th | 30 July 1346 | 1346 | 11 September 1346 | 20 September 1346 | unknown | unknown |
27th | 13 November 1347 | 1348–48 | 14 January 1348 | 12 February 1348 | unknown | unknown |
28th | 14 February 1348 | 1348 | 31 March 1348 | 13 April 1348 | unknown | unknown |
29th | 25 November 1350 | 1350–51 | 9 February 1351 | 1 March 1351 | unknown | unknown |
30th | 15 November 1351 | 1351–52 | 13 January 1352 | 11 February 1352 | unknown | unknown |
31st | 15 March 1354 | 1354 | 28 April 1354 | 20 May 1354 | unknown | unknown |
32nd | 20 September 1355 | 1355 | 23 November 1355 | 30 November 1355 | unknown | Roger de Puttenham |
33rd | 15 February 1357 | 1357 | 17 April 1357 | 8–16 May 1357 | unknown | unknown |
34th | 15 December 1357 | 1357–58 | 5 February 1358 | 27 February 1358 | unknown | |
35th | 3 April 1360 | 1360 | 15 May 1360 | ... | unknown | unknown |
36th | 20 November 1360 | 1360–61 | 24 January 1361 | 18 February 1361 | unknown | unknown |
37th | 14 August 1362 | 1362 | 13 October 1362 | 17 November 1362 | unknown | unknown |
38th | 1 June 1363 | 1363 | 6 October 1363 | 30 October 1363 | unknown | Roger de Puttenham |
39th | 4 December 1364 | 1364–65 | 20 January 1365 | 17 February 1365 | unknown | unknown |
40th | 20 January 1366 | 1366 | 4 May 1366 | 11 May 1366 | unknown | Roger de Puttenham |
41st | 24 February 1368 | 1368 | 1 May 1368 | 21 May 1368 | unknown | Roger de Puttenham |
42nd | 6 April 1369 | 1369 | 3 June 1369 | 11 June 1369 | unknown | Roger de Puttenham |
43rd | 8 January 1371 | 1371 | 24 February 1371 | 29 March 1371 | unknown | unknown |
44th | 1 September 1372 | 1372 | 3 November 1372 | 24 November 1372 | unknown | unknown |
45th | 4 October 1373 | 1373 | 21 November 1373 | 10 December 1373 | unknown | unknown |
28 December 1375 | 1375–76 | 28 April 1376 | 10 July 1376 | unknown | unknown | |
1 December 1376 | 1376–77 | 27 January 1377 | 2 March 1377 | unknown | ||