William Fauvel
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He was a Yorkshire man with strong links to the town of Skipton. He was the son of Constantine Fauvel or Flauvel of Skipton:[1] Constantine was a close relative, probably a younger son, of Everard Fauvel (died 1307) who held, as tenant-in-chief from the English Crown, substantial lands at Skipton, Thoralby and Broughton. William had at least one brother: he was married but had no children.[2]
Career
Apart from his time serving as a judge in Ireland, William lived mainly in York, where he was residing in 1327.[1] He served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) from 1329 to about 1332,[1] and then returned to England. He served there as a tax collector, and in 1332 he was employed by the Crown to levy a tax in Westmorland for an unspecified "Irish business".[1] From his family's petition after his death it seems that he held substantial lands in Yorkshire, probably inherited from his father and grandfather.[2]
He was back in York by 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,[1] to be charged on his lands in default of repayment. Robert de Clifford was probably Robert Clifford, 3rd Baron Clifford (died 1344), whose principal seat was at Skipton.
