William Fauvel

William Fauvel (died after 1334) was an English-born judge and Crown official in fourteenth-century Ireland.

For the merchant and political figure in Quebec, see William Le Boutillier Fauvel.

He was a Yorkshire man with strong links to the town of Skipton. He was the son of Constantine Fauvel of Skipton: Constantine was a close relative, probably a younger son, of Everard Fauvel (died 1308) who held, as tenant-in-chief from the English Crown, substantial lands at Skipton and Broughton.

Apart from his time as a judge in Ireland, William seems to have lived mainly in York, where he is recorded in 1327. He served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) from 1329 to about 1332, and then returned to England. He also served as a tax collector, and in 1332 he was employed by the Crown to levy a tax in Westmorland for an unspecified "Irish business".

He is last heard of at York in the summer of 1334, when the Close Rolls record that he admitted to being indebted in a sum of 100 marks to Robert de Clifford, to be charged on his lands in default of repayment.

Sources
  • Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926
  • Close Rolls Edward III June 1334
  • Farrar, William and Clay, Charles Travis ed. Early Yorkshire Charters: Vol.7, The Honour of Skipton Cambridge University Press 2013
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