Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Robert de Scardeburgh (died c. 1351) was an English judge who also held high judicial office in Ireland.He was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, from which he took his surname; he is generally thought to have been a nephew of Robert of Scarborough, Dean of York 1279-90. In 1331 he was commissioner of assize for Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and in the same year became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. In 1332 he received rewards for his good services in Ireland and a grant of lands at Malahide. In 1334 he returned to England to become a judge of the Court of King's Bench; he was transferred to the Court of Common Pleas and then back to King's Bench; he also served on a commission of array in Yorkshire.In the late 1330s, the poor quality of the judges in Ireland was giving great concern to the English Crown: the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford, was instructed to remove Irish judges who were unfit and replace them with judges of English birth. Scardeburgh was selected for his old position of Chief Justice of Common Pleas in Ireland to replace Simon Fitz-Richard, but Fitz-Richard fought a successful action to retain his place and Scardeburgh never arrived.In 1344, he did return to Ireland as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland with custody of the seals of both benches and the fees attaching to them. He seems to have been still alive seven years later.. }
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- Robert_de_Scardeburgh abstract "Robert de Scardeburgh (died c. 1351) was an English judge who also held high judicial office in Ireland.He was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, from which he took his surname; he is generally thought to have been a nephew of Robert of Scarborough, Dean of York 1279-90. In 1331 he was commissioner of assize for Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and in the same year became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. In 1332 he received rewards for his good services in Ireland and a grant of lands at Malahide. In 1334 he returned to England to become a judge of the Court of King's Bench; he was transferred to the Court of Common Pleas and then back to King's Bench; he also served on a commission of array in Yorkshire.In the late 1330s, the poor quality of the judges in Ireland was giving great concern to the English Crown: the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford, was instructed to remove Irish judges who were unfit and replace them with judges of English birth. Scardeburgh was selected for his old position of Chief Justice of Common Pleas in Ireland to replace Simon Fitz-Richard, but Fitz-Richard fought a successful action to retain his place and Scardeburgh never arrived.In 1344, he did return to Ireland as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland with custody of the seals of both benches and the fees attaching to them. He seems to have been still alive seven years later.".