Sir Julius Caesar | |
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Master of the Rolls | |
In office 1614–1636 |
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Preceded by | Sir Edward Phelips |
Succeeded by | Sir Dudley Digges |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
In office 1606–1614 |
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Monarch | James I |
Preceded by | The Earl of Dunbar |
Succeeded by | Sir Fulke Greville |
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Born | 1557/1558 Middlesex, England |
Died | 18 April 1636 |
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Sir Julius Caesar (1557/1558 – 18 April 1636) was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622. He was also known as Julius Adelmare.
Caesar was born near Tottenham in Middlesex, the son of Cesare Adelmare of Treviso, Italy, Tottenham, Middlesex, and Bishopsgate, London, and his wife Margery Perient (died c.1583). Cesare Adelmare, like many of his ancestors, studied at the University of Padua, where he was made doctor in 1547. He was registered as a doctor in his native Treviso in 1542. In England in 1544 he was found to be working unlicensed and then licensed. He was naturalised in 1558, and was a physician to Queens Mary I and Elizabeth. Cesare's father Pietro Maria Adelmare was also a grauduate of Padua, and was a judge and ambassador for Treviso. His mother, Paola Cesarini, was said to be descended from the well-known Cesarini family of Rome. Julius was baptised in the Church of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East in February 1558, his sponsors being the Lord Treasurer, William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester; the Earl of Arundel; and Lady Montagu representing the queen. After his father's death, his mother married, as her second husband, Michael Lok. He was possibly educated at Winchester College and matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 10 January 1575, aged 16, and was awarded BA on 17 May 1575 and MA on 18 February 1578. He then studied at the University of Paris, where he was made LLB and LLD on 22 April 1581.