This article contains a list of the known knights of the shire who represented Buckinghamshire in the Parliament of England and similar bodies of lesser status between 1290 and 1660. It also includes details of Parliaments from 1265 to which elected knights of the shires were summoned.

Preliminary notes The parliamentary electoral constituency, representing the historic county of Buckinghamshire, was created in (1265): see Montfort's Parliament for further details and History of Buckinghamshire for maps of the historic county. This county constituency was represented by two knights of the shire until 1832 and three 1832–1885.

Knights of the shire are known to have been summoned to most parliaments from 1290 (19th Parliament of King Edward I of England) and to every one from 1320 (19th Parliament of King Edward II of England).

Although at some periods several Parliaments were held in a year, at others there were considerable gaps between Parliaments. Knights of the shire were also summoned to meetings which have not been classified as Parliaments by modern expert opinion. The names of the members in some Parliaments are not known.

The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). The years used for parliaments in this article have been converted to the new style where necessary. Old style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March, for example the Parliament of 18 March 1313 – 9 May 1313 (new style) would be 18 March 1312 – 9 May 1313 (old style). No attempt has been made to compensate for the eleven days which did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories (when the day after 2 September was 14 September), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar.

The names of knights of the shire, taken from the list in The History and Antiquities of Buckinghamshire by George Lipscomb (unless a volume from the History of Parliament Trust on the House of Commons at a particular period is available), are given in alphabetical order for each group of representatives.

There are some minor variations in names from the source used, which unless the contrary is known, are assumed to relate to the same person. It is possible that some entries relate to different persons of the same name. Where such cases have been identified the persons have been distinguished by a Roman number after the name (in order of first election); except where the number used to distinguish different candidates of the same name during the same period, by the authors of the books on the House of Commons mention in the references section, are used.

As the dates of Parliaments came from a twentieth century source and the names of persons elected came from Lipscomb (published between 1831 and 1847) it was sometimes impossible to be certain, from those sources, who served in a Parliament and who attended other meetings accorded lesser status. There is also some uncertainty as to whether Lipscomb did or did not use new style years and if so whether the method used in his list is consistent. An attempt has been made to give the best fit possible and to indicate the year (and if necessary the number within the year) from Lipscomb's list. The places of some Parliaments were indicated in footnotes to Lipscomb's list and are given here as they may assist with further research to confirm the link between specific knights of the shire and a particular Parliament.

Knights of the shire 1265–1660 The lists below commence with Montfort's Parliament in 1265, when for the first time elected representatives from counties (or shires), cities and boroughs were summoned to Parliament.

It is known that the Sheriffs of the English Counties were ordered to send knights of the shire to attend a number of Parliaments before 1265, but they were not required to have them chosen by election. No such summonses are known to have required the attendance of some citizens of cities or burgesses of other boroughs. Records of this sort of summons survive for the Oxford Parliament which was the 7th Parliament of King Henry III (assembled 27 October 1258 and presumed dissolved when writs de expensis were issued on 4 November 1258) and the 16th Parliament of the King (summoned 4 June 1264 and assembled 22 June 1264, although the date of dissolution is unknown).

The lists before 1320 exclude Parliaments to which elected commoners (representing the Commons or communities of England) were not known to have been summoned. All Parliaments are believed to have been held at Westminster, unless otherwise indicated.

Parliament of King Henry III No.SummonedElectedAssembledDissolved1st member2nd member17th 14 December 1264 1264–65 20 January 1265 15 February 1265 unknown unknown

Parliaments of King Edward I No.SummonedElectedAssembledDissolved1st member2nd member1st (a) 16 February 1275 1275 25 April 1275 ... unknown unknown2nd (b) 1 September 1275 1275 13 October 1275 24 October 1275 unknown unknown19th (c) 13 June 1290 1290 15 July 1290 ... John de Pateshulle William de Turville20th ... 1290 27 October 1290 ... unknown unknown21st ... 1290–91 7 January 1291 ... unknown unknown22nd ... 1291–92 8 January 1292 ... unknown unknown25th ... ?1293 > 29 March 1293 ... unknown unknown26th ... 1293 13 October 1293 ... unknown unknown27th ... 1293 > 25 December 1293 ... unknown unknown29th (d) 30 September 1295+ 1295 27 November 1295 4 December 1295 Laurence de Bluntesdene Roger de Tiringham30th 26 August 1296 1296 3 November 1296 29 November 1296 unknown unknown33rd (e) 6 October 1297 1297 15 September 1297 14 October 1297 Robert Barry Amery de Nowers34th (f) 15 March 1298 March 1298 30 March 1298 ... Laurence de Bluntesdene John de Chetewood35th (g) 10 April 1298 1298 25 May 1298 ... unknown unknown 39th (h) 29 December 1299 1299–00 6 March 1300 20 March 1300 Hugh de Chastillon Robert Pogeys 1300 Gerard de Braybroke I40th (i) 26 September 1300 1300–01 20 January 1301 30 January 1301 Gerard de Braybroke I Hugh de Chastillon42nd (j) 14 July 1302 1302 14 October 1302 21 October 1302 John de Chetewood William de Santresdon43rd (k) 12 November 1304 1304–05 28 February 1305 20 March 1305 Roger de Tyringham John Neyrunt45th (l) 5 April 1306 1306 30 May 1306 30 May 1306 William Beauchamp John Giffard46th (m) 3 November 1306 1306–07 20 January 1307 19 March 1307 Miles de Beauchamp Ralph de Wedon

Notes:- (a) 1st: For the first time since 1264–65 the representatives of the communities of the Realm are known to have been summoned to Parliament. (b) 2nd: The knights of the shires only were summoned to this Parliament. No summonses were sent to the cities and boroughs, for them to send representatives. (c) 19th: Knights only summoned 13–14 June 1290. Assembled 23 April 1290 Lords and 15 July 1290 Commons. This is the 308th Parliament, counting backwards from the Parliament elected in 2005. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1290). After this Parliament it became fairly usual for the representatives of the counties, cities and boroughs to be summoned to attend Parliament and from 1320 they were always included. (d) 29th: Model Parliament summoned 30 September, 1 and 3 October 1295. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1295) (e) 33rd: Summoned 30 September 1297 (peers) and 6 October 1297 (knights of the shire). Assembled 9 October 1297 Lords and 15 October 1297 Commons. Met in London. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1297) (f) 34th: Met in York. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1298) (g) 35th: Summoned 10, 11 and 13 April 1298. (h) 39th: (39th): Resignation of Pogeys, (1300) Gerard de Braybroke [I] elected. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1300:1) (i) 40th: Met in Lincoln. Dissolved 27–30 January 1301 (when writs de expensis were issued). (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1300:2) (j) 42nd: Summoned 14, 20 and 24 July 1303. Met in London. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1302) (k) 43rd: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1305) (l) 45th: Assembled and dissolved 30 May 1306. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1306) (m) 46th: Met in Carlisle. Dissolved when writs de expensis were issued 20 January 1307 (burgesses only) and 19 March 1307 (knights only). (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1307)

Parliaments of King Edward II No.SummonedElectedAssembledDissolved1st member2nd member1st 26 August 1307 1307 13 October 1307 16 October 1307 unknown unknown2nd 19 January 1308 1308 3 March 1308 ... unknown unknown5th (a) 4 March 1309 1309 27 April 1309 13 May 1309 Gerard de Braybroke II John Giffard8th (b) 16 June 1311 1311 8 August 1311 18 December 1311 Ralph de Wedon Robert Malet9th (c) 3 June 1312 1312 20 August 1312 16 December 1312 Ralph de Bellofago Robert Malet10th (d) 8 January 1313 1313 18 March 1313 9 May 1313 Ralph de Wedon Robert Malet11th (f) 23 May 1313 1313 8 July 1313 27 July 1313 Robert de Tothale Robert Malet12th (g) 26 July 1313 1313 23 September 1313 15 November 1313 John de Adingrave Masculin de Chastillon13th (h) 29 July 1314 1314 9 September 1314 27/28 September 1314 Miles de Beauchamp Robert Malet14th (i) 24 October 1314 1314–15 20 January 1315 9 March 1315 unknown unknown15th (j) 16 October 1315 1315–16 27 January 1316 20 February 1316 Nicholas de Turville John Giffard de Boef16th 24–25 August 1318 1318 20 October 1318 9 December 1318 unknown unknown17th (l) 20 March 1319 1319 6 May 1319 25 May 1319 John de la Haye John de la Penne19th 5 August 1320 1320 6 October 1320 25/26 October 1320 unknown unknown20th 15 May 1321 1321 15 July 1321 22 August 1321 unknown unknown21st (m) 14 March 1322 1322 2 May 1322 19 May 1322 Ralph de Wedon Robert Malet22nd (n) 18 September 1322 1322 14 November 1322 29 November 1322 Alan de Leaumes Robert Malet23rd (o) 20 November 1323 1323–24 23 February 1324 18 March 1324 Philip de Aylesbury Robert Malet24th (p) 6 May 1325 1325 25 June 1325 ... Thomas de Sakevill James Freysel25th 10 October 1325 1325 18 November 1325 5 December 1325 unknown unknown26th (q) 28 October 1326 1326–27 7 January 1327 20 January 1327 Andrew de St. Liz Robert Malet

Note:- (a) 5th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1309) (b) 8th: Met at London. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1311) (c) 9th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1312:1) (d) 10th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1312:2) (e) Robert Barry, ? (Lipscomb-knight of the shire 1313:1) not associated with a Parliament as far as is known (f) 11th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1313:2) (g) 12th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1313:3) (h) 13th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1314) (i) 14th: John Blaket, Robert Malet (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1315:1) or John Giffard, Nicholas de Turville (at York) (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1315:2) uncertain which pair were elected to this Parliament and which to a meeting of lesser status (j) 15th: Met at Lincoln. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1316) (k) Nicholas de Turville (3), John de Olney (1) (Council at Lincoln) (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1317) not associated with a body classified as a Parliament (l) 17th: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1319) (m) 21st: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1322) (n) 22nd: Met at York. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1323) (o) 23rd: (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1324) (p) 24th: Met at London. (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1325) (q) 26th: continued into the next reign (Lipscomb-knights of the shire 1326)

Parliaments of King Edward III