James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele

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James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1395 – 4 July 1450), was an English soldier and politician.

Fiennes fought in the Hundred Years' War and also served as Constable of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1447 to 1450 and as Lord High Treasurer of England from 1449 to 1450. He was summoned to Parliament from 1446 to 1449 and is said to have been created Baron Saye and Sele by letters patent in 1447. Saye and Sele was a supporter of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, the prinicipal power behind the throne of Henry IV. After Suffolk's deposal in 1450 he was imprisoned in the Tower and beheaded by the rebels in London under Captain Jack Cade on July 4, 1450.

He was succeeded in the barony by his son William.

[edit] Ancestry

Sir John (de) Fiennes

Sir John (de) Fiennes

Jean Jordan

Sir William (de) Fiennes

Jean or John de Monceaux

Maud de Monceaux

Olympia

Sir William (de) Fiennes

Sir Geoffrey de Saye

Sir Geoffrey de Saye

Idonea de Leyburn

Joane or Joan de Saye

Guy de Beauchamp

Maud de Beauchamp

Alice de Toeni

James Fiennes

William Battisford

Elizabeth Battisford

Margaret Peplesham

Political offices
Preceded by The Duke of Gloucester	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1447–1450	Succeeded by The Duke of Buckingham
Preceded by Marmaduke Lumley	Lord High Treasurer 1449–1450	Succeeded by The Lord Beauchamp of Powick
Peerage of England
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Saye and Sele 1447–1450	Succeeded by William Fiennes

[edit] References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page