Roger Clarendon

Sir Roger Clarendon (c.1350–1402), was a royal bastard and conspirator, who was executed for treason.[1]

Biography

Clarendon was a natural son of Edward, the Black Prince, and his mistress, Edith Willesford. Being regarded as a possible pretender, he was hanged, and beheaded, by order of Henry IV of England in 1402. His execution was made the subject of one of the articles exhibited by Archbishop Scrope of York against Henry IV during his rebellion in 1405. Among his descendants are the Bowyer-Smyth baronets.[1][2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Given-Wilson 2004.
  2. ↑ Rigg 1887, p. 398.

References

  • Given-Wilson, C. (2004). "Clarendon, Sir Roger (c.1350–1402)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5452. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  •  Rigg, James McMullen (1887). "Clarendon, Roger". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 398. Endnotes:
    • Walsingham's Hist. Angl. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 249 ;
    • Trokelowe et Anon. Chron. (Rolls Ser.), 340;
    • Eulog. Hist. iii. 389
    • Stubbs's Const. Hist. iii. 36, 49


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