Judge
In February 1383, he was made a Justice of the King’s Bench, appointed under King Richard II. This was a hugely important position and one of the highest to which a lawyer could aspire. It entailed his sitting in judgment on cases brought before the King. He was knighted by King Richard in 1387, surely the pinnacle of his career. His greatest claim to fame today, however, is that his daughter Marged or Margaret married Owain Glyndŵr, probably in 1383.
Sir David Hanmer died in late 1387 unaware of the conflict that was to befall his family.
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Famous quotes containing the word judge:
“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“I know a lot of wonderful men married to pills, and I know a lot of pills married to wonderful women. So one shouldn’t judge that way.”
—Barbara Bush (b. 1925)
“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)