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From: Ed Mann <>
Subject: Persons mentioned in the magna charta
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:39:08 -0500

GE>Is there a list of the signers, contributors, opponents etc. of the Magna
GE>Charta...where might it be found?

>From Weis, Magna Charta SUreties, 1215, 4th ed., pp. vii - viii:

THE TWENTY-FIVE SURETIES OF THE MAGNA CHARTA

Richard de Clare, Earl of Clare
William de Fortibus, Earl of Aumale (1)
Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Gloucester (2)
Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester
Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford
Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk
Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford
William Marshall, the Younger (2)
Robert fitz Walter of Dunmow
Gilbert de Clare
Eustace de Vesci (3)
William de Hardelf, Mayor of London (4)
William de Mowbray
Geoffrey de Say
Roger de Mumbezon (or Mont Begon) (2)
William de Huntingfleld
Robert de Ros of Hamlake
John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, Baron of Holton
William de Albin[ (or Aubigny) of Beivoir
Richard de Percy (5)
William Malet
John fitz Robert
William de Lanvaliel
Hugh Bigod, later Earl of Norfolk
Richard de Muntfichet, Baron of Stanstead (2) (allas Richard Gernon)

(1) known Issue extinct after 3rd generation
(2) no known Issue surviving
(3) known Issue extinct after 4th generation
(4) nothing known of him or of his family
(5) no legitimate Issue. He had an llleg. son, Sir Henry de Percy, wh
held the market and fair and manor of Settle (Yorks), who had a son
Alexander who held land In Arram, par. of Leconfield. Descendants may
exist. GEC X p. 452.

PERSONS NAMED IN THE PREAMBLE OF MAGNA CHARTA AS
ADVISORS OF KING JOHN

Clerics

Stephen de Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
Henry, Archbishop of Dublin
William, Bishop of London
Peter, Bishop of Winchester
Joceline, Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln
Walter, Bishop, of Worcester
William, Bishop of Coventry
Benedict, Bishop of Rochester
Pandulph, the Pope's subdeacon and familiar (Papal Legate)
Atmeric, Master of the Knights Templar In England

Nobles

William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke
William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury
William, Earl of Warren (and Surrey)
Alan of Galloway, Constable of Scotland
Warln fitz Gerold (known Issue extinct In 3rd generation)
Hubert de Burgh, Seneschal of Poltou
Peter fltz Herbert
Hugh de Nevil
Matthew fitz Herbert
Thomas Basset
Alan Basset
William d'Alblgny, Earl of Arundel
Robert de Roppel
John Marshall of Hingham
John fitz Hugh.

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