Stephen Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Masham

Stephen Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Masham and Upsale (1345-1406) was the second surviving son of Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham.[1] Stephen Scrope had a brother, John, and a sister Joan, who married Henry, Lord Fitzhugh.[2]

Career

His early carer was spent both on royal service, fighting in Edward III's French wars, as well as overseeing the activities of the local King's Bench of the West Riding.[3] in and also on pilgrimage in the Middle East. He was knighted in Alexandria in 1365, and fought at the Battle of Nájera, part of England's involvement in the Castilian Civil War, two years later.[1] He inherited his father's estate, which consisted of the manors of Masham, Upsall and Eccleshall[4] and others in Nottinghamshire,[5] in 1391, when he was around forty years old.[4] In 1399 he accompanied Richard II on his expedition to Wales.[6] He was summoned to parliament every year between 1399 and his death in 1406.[4] An antiquarian point of interest has been noted in his having left history one of the few letters left by a fifteenth-century noble written in his own hand: a 1401 document, written whilst Scrope was in the service of Henry of Monmouth. In this letter, Scrope apologises 'for the manner in which it was written; he being obliged, for want of a clerk, to write it himself,' as Dugdale put it.[7]

Family

Stephen Scrope married Margery,[8] daughter of John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles and widow of John, Lord Huntingfield[9] before 1376.[1] They had several children.[10] His eldest son Henry inherited the title and was beheaded in 1415 as a result of his involvement in the Southampton Plot against King Henry V.[8] Stephen Scrope's younger son, also named Stephen, became Archdeacon of Richmond in 1400 and Chancellor of Oxford University in 1414.[9][8]

Stephen Scrope died on 25 January 1406[1] and was buried in the family chapel in York Minster. His wife Margery died in 1422.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cokayne, G.E., The Complete Peerage of England and Wales (Vol. VII, London, 1896), 90.
  2. ↑ Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. Society of Antiquaries of London. 1812. pp. 343–.
  3. ↑ Walker, S.J., Political Culture in Late Medieval England (Manchester, 2006), 84.
  4. 1 2 3 Joseph Hunter (1819). Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. Hughes. pp. 197–.
  5. ↑ John Curtis (of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.) (1844). A topographical history of Nottinghamshire. pp. 191–.
  6. ↑ Sherborne, J., War, Politics and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (London, 1994), 127-8.
  7. ↑ Retrospective Review: And Historical and Antiquarian Magazine. C. and H. Baldwyn. 1827. pp. 5–.
  8. 1 2 3 "Henry Scrope".
  9. 1 2 Surtees Society; Thomas Tonge; William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe; College of Arms (Great Britain) (1863). Publications of the Surtees Society. Surtees Society. pp. 385–. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  10. ↑ Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. The Society. 1814. pp. 335–.
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