Roger de Scales | |
Birth Date: | 1354 |
Death Date: | 1387 |
Allegiance: | England |
Roger Scales, 4th Baron Scales (1354–1387) was one of the 'eminent persons' forced by the rebels to march with them upon the insurrection of Jack Straw in 1381. He was a commissioner of the peace for Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for many of the years between 1373 and 1386.[1] He was summoned to Parliament from 1376 until his death in 1386.[2] He attended the Coronation of Richard II in 1377.[3]
Roger's main residence was at Rivenhall in Essex. He also held Haselingfeld in Cambridgeshire[4] and gained Shaldford in Essex and lands in Kent through his marriage.
Roger married Joan,[1] daughter of, Sir John de Northwode. They had the following children:-
Joan later remarried to Sir Edmund de Thorpe, Jnr., without licence.[1]