Robert Tresilian

Sir Robert Tresilian (? - executed in 1388), chief justice of the King's Bench. In the 1380s Tresilian became heavily involved in national politics and was associated with Richard II's close circle of favourites. He was tried and executed by the Merciless Parliament in 1388.

Bibliographic References:

Leland, John L., 'Tresilian, Sir Robert (d. 1388).' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: OUP, 2004)

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