Geoffrey Scrope
| Sir Geoffrey le Scrope | |
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| 18th Lord Chief Justice of England | |
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In office 21 March 1324 – 1 May 1329 |
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| Monarch |
Edward II Edward III |
| Prime Minister | Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (as Lord High Steward) |
| Chancellor |
Robert Baldock (1324-1327) John Hotham (1327-1328) |
| Preceded by | Hervey de Stanton |
| Succeeded by | Robert de Malberthorp |
| 21st Lord Chief Justice of England | |
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In office 29 December 1330 – 28 March 1332 |
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| Monarch | Edward III |
| Prime Minister | Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (as Lord High Steward) |
| Chancellor | John de Stratford |
| Preceded by | Henry le Scrope |
| Succeeded by | Richard de Willoughby |
| 23rd Lord Chief Justice of England | |
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In office 20 September 1332 – 10 September 1333 |
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| Monarch | Edward III |
| Prime Minister | Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (as Lord High Steward) |
| Chancellor | John de Stratford |
| Preceded by | Richard de Willoughby |
| Succeeded by | Richard de Willoughby |
| 25th Lord Chief Justice of England | |
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In office 1337 – October 1338 |
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| Monarch | Edward III |
| Prime Minister | Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (as Lord High Steward) |
| Chancellor | Robert de Stratford |
| Preceded by | Richard de Willoughby |
| Succeeded by | Richard de Willoughby |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1285 |
| Died | December 2, 1340 (aged 54–55) Ghent, Belgium |
| Resting place | Coverham Abbey, North Yorkshire |
| Nationality | English |
| Spouse(s) | Ivette de Ros |
| Relations | Henry le Scrope (brother) |
| Children |
Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham Thomas Scrope William Scrope Stephen Scrope Geoffrey Scrope Lady Beatrice Luttrell Lady Constance Luttrell Ivetta de Hothom |
| Parents | William le Scrope (father) |
Sir Geoffrey le Scrope (1285 – 2 December 1340) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench for four periods between 1324 and 1338.
He was the son of Sir William le Scrope, who was bailiff to the earl of Richmond in Richmondshire. Geoffrey's older brother Henry was also a lawyer, and served as Chief Justice twice, 1317–23 and 1329–30. His mother was Constance, daughter and heiress of Thomas, son of Gillo de Newsham, variously described as of Newsham-on-Tees and of Newsham-on-Tyne. Geoffrey Scrope certainly had an estate at Whalton, near Morpeth, a few miles south-east of which there is a Newsham, but it is not upon the Tyne.
Like his brother, Scrope adopted the profession of the law, and by 1316 he was king's serjeant. He is also called 'valettus regis.' He was summoned to councils and parliaments, and occasionally sat on judicial commissions. In the baronial conflicts of the reign of Edward II he was a loyal adherent of the crown. He was involved in the proceedings both against Thomas of Lancaster and Andrew Harclay. He was knighted in 1323, and became Chief Justice for the first time on 21 March 1324. He managed, however, to survive politically the overthrow both of Edward II in 1326 and of Roger Mortimer in 1330.
After retiring as a justice, he campaigned with Edward III in Flanders, and distinguished himself as a soldier. He was also one of the instigators behind the king's actions against Archbishop Stratford in 1340. The small estate he held as early as 1312 in Coverdale, south of Wensleydale, he augmented before 1318, by the acquisition of the manor of Clifton on Ure at the entrance of the latter dale, where he obtained a license to build a castle in that year. Early in the next reign he purchased the neighbouring manor of Masham from the representatives of its old lords, the Wautons, who held it from the Mowbrays by the service of an annual barbed arrow. Eltham Mandeville and other Vesci lands in Kent had passed into his hands by 1318. One of Edward II's last acts was to invest him with the great castle and honour of Skipton in Craven forfeited by Roger, lord Clifford. So closely was he identified with the court party that Mortimer was alleged to have projected the same fate for him as for the Despensers. But though Edward's deposition was followed by Scrope's removal from office, he received a pardon in February 1328, and was reinstated as chief justice.
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