Family and Education
m. prob. by Aug. 1400, Joan, illegit. yr. da. of Alice Perrers (d.1400), mistress to Edw. III, poss. by William, Lord Windsor (d.1384), s.p.VCH Berks. iii. 288; VCH Essex, vii. 149; VCH Warws. v. 58-59; W. Dugdale, Warws. i. 564-5; DNB, xv. 898-9; Surr. Arch. Colls. xxix. 104-5; Oxf. Hist. Soc. xc. 398-9; CCR, 1402-5, p. 486; 1405 – 09, pp.39, 168-9, 227. The problems of Joan Skerne’s parentage and the difficulties of distinguishing her from her elder sister and namesake are discussed in CP, xii (2), 879-80." style="color:red; " class="drupal_footnote
Offices Held
Commr. to audit the accounts of persons collecting pavage, London Oct. 1406; of sewers, Surr. Dec. 1417; to raise a royal loan Nov. 1419; of oyer and terminer July 1421; to assess a royal loan Apr. 1431.
J.p. Surr. 28 Oct. 1417 – Dec. 1431.
Tax collector Surr. Jan. 1420.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Kingston-upon-Thames, Surr.
Skiern, Skyerne
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
SKERNE, Robert (-d.1437)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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