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Peter Trevers, or Travers (died 1468) was an Irish barrister and judge. He came from a family which had settled in County Meath in the thirteenth century; John de Tryvers, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) c.1283-5, was a member of the same family. He may also have been a relative of Peter Treveris, the well-known London printer of the 1520s. The family is thought to have been Cornish in origin, the most usual spelling of their name being Treffry. Peter is first heard of in London, studying law at the Inns of Court, in 1456 : Ireland then had no law school, and thus ambitious young Irishmen who wished to become lawyers and in due course judges in their home country were obliged to seek permission from the authorities to study law in London. He was appointed King's Serjeant in 1460. He was clearly a man of considerable wealth, who owned the impressive Baldongan Castle, near Skerries, County Dublin, and a nearby estate at Courtlough. During the Wars of the Roses, the great dynastic struggle between the rival York and Lancaster branches of the English royal family, Trevers, like most of the Anglo-Irish gentry, supported the Yorkist cause, and in 1460 he accompanied Richard, Duke of York to England when York unsuccessfully claimed the English Crown. In 1461, following the Yorkist triumph, Trevers was appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland by Richard's son, King Edward IV (in fact the office was granted first to Patrick Cogley, but Cogley quickly exchanged it for Clerk of the Crown). In 1465 he was entrusted with raising men for the defence of Dublin. He died in 1468. He married Elizabeth Holywood, or Holywode, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Holywood of Artane Castle. Elizabeth had been twice widowed; her first husband was the 3rd Baron Delvin, by whom she had four sons, and her second husband was Sir Thomas Dowdall, by whom she had one daughter. She and Peter had three children: *Nicholas *Anne, who married Patrick Netterville *Catherine, who married into the Cusack family. ==References== *Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 *Kenny, Colum ''King's Inns and the Kingdom of Ireland'' Irish Academic Press 1992 *Lodge, John and Archdall, Mervyn ''Peerage of Ireland'' Dublin 1839 Political office-holders in pre-partition Ireland 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Trevers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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