Roger de Beler
English judge, Baron of the Exchequer
Roger Beler was a Baron of the Exchequer and right-hand man of Hugh le Despencer and King Edward II. Beler was killed by the Folville gang in 1326.
Ancestry
Beler was the son of William Beler, and grandson of Roger Beler, sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1256. His mother's name was Amicia. A licence obtained in 1316 by Beler allowed him to grant a lay fee in Kirkby-by-Melton, on the Wrethek in Leicestershire, for a warden and two chantry chaplains for the Parish Church of St. Peter, on condition of their performing religious services for the benefit of the souls of himself and his wife Alicia, his father and mother, and other ancestors in a special chantry chapel on the manorial site. In time this secular chantry college took on the Rule of St Augustine and became the Saint Peter's Priory Kirkby upon the Wreak. Beler is generally credited as the founder of this community and is usually cited as the source for the modern name of the village of Kirby Bellars.
Career
In the civil dissensions over Piers Gaveston, Beler was of the Earl of Lancaster's party, and in October 1318 was included in the amnesty then granted to the earl and his adherents. Shortly afterwards, Beler received a grant of land in Leicestershire as the reward for services for the king. In the same year the offices of bailiff and steward of Stapleford, in Leicestershire, of which apparently he was already the tenant, were entailed upon him.
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