Lieutenant-Governor Peter le Marchant, Bailiff of the Royal Court

Biography

Lieutenant-Governor Peter le Marchant, Bailiff of the Royal Court He was a Lieutenant-Governor and Bailiff of the Royal Court.

Peter married N/n le Marchant (N/n). Together they had the following children:

• John le Marchant, Bailiff;
• Denis le Marchant.

He died in 1335 in Guernsey.

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The family of Le Marchant has been long seated in this Island. The common ancestor of the different branches now living was Peter le Marchant, who held the high office of Lieutenant-Governor and Bailiff of the Royal Court in the time of Edward III. and dying in 1335, left two sons, John and Denis le Marchant. 

Besides being invested with the military command, they presided in the assembly of the states, in the courts of judicature; and they appointed in their absence, or when they did not choose to act themselves, one deputy for the civil, and another for the military department: the former was called bailiff, the other deputy-governor. Sometimes one deputy acted in both capacities, which Peter le Marchant did in the reign of King Edward I. as appears by an order, dated 12th of August, 1305, directed to the governor, and executed by Le Marchant, then bailiff, who in his answer to the King's order calls himself Octonisde Grandison's deputy. http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv38c249b8

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