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Jane Fineux.89358. Sir John Fineux Lord
Chief Justice(336) was born about
1441. He died aft Feb5 1527. Sir John Fineux came from an ancient Kentish family.
He attended Gray's Inn and in 1471 was appointed one of the commissioners administering
the marshlands lying between Tenterden and Lydd in Kent. In 1476 he was appointed
seneschal of the manors of the prior and chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury,
said to number 129.
On Nov 20 1485 he was made a serjeant-at-law and the following year appointed
to the Privy Council. On May 18 1488 he was appointed steward of Dover Castle
and the following year received a commission as a justice of assize in Norfolk.
In 1490 he was appointed King's serjeant.
On Feb 11 1494, he was made a puisne judge of the common pleas, and the following
year was raised to the chief-justiceship of the King's Bench. In 1509 he was
named one of the executors of the will of King Henry VII. In 1512 he was one
of the judges who met in council to decide the issue of the authority of ecclesiastical
courts to try felons and his decision at this time was instrumental in establishing
the separation of ecclesiastical and temporal courts.
He is buried in the nave of Canterbury Cathedral. He was married to Elizabeth
Apulderfeld.
89359. Elizabeth
Apulderfeld(336). Children were:
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Jane Fineux.
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