The Men Helping the Jews, Part 2

Yesterday's post mentioned three witnesses to King Henry III's charter that established the Domus Conversorum. Hubert de Burgh has been discussed before, but Mauclerc and des Roches have not. All three served in positions under Henry's father, King John.Thirty years before this 1232 charter, Mauclerc shows up as a clerk in Normandy, and then having his own church. A year later, however, he is in England and holding a prebend (a portion of the revenue of a church) in Exeter.He collected taxes for John, who also sent him to Rome as an envoy to Pope Innocent III. Loyal to John, one of his jobs in Rome was to make sure Innocent did not give support to any English barons who might turn to the pope for help against the king. In 1223 he was elevated to be bishop of Carlisle.As bishop of Carlisle, he came into a very handsome property, Rose Castle (the illustration is recent, but at the time it was likely wooden). Henry's grandfather, Henry II, had confiscated Rose Castle from a man who…

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