page_title: William de Meones
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: William de Meones / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: All Saints' parish church, East Meon, Hampshire
context_page_description: William de Meones was an English-born cleric and judge in fourteenth-century Ireland', who was the second Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. Today he is chiefly remembered for giving his name to the Dublin suburb of Rathmines.
context_section_description: He derived his name from his birthplace,  the village of East Meon in Hampshire. He is first heard of in Ireland about 1279 in the entourage of John de Derlington, who was Archbishop of Dublin 1279-1284, and he was  executor of the  Archbishop's will. He was also a canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was employed to collect Crown revenues in 1285 and was keeper of the Queen's forests at Glencree in 1290.
  In 1293 he was Chamberlain of the Exchequer of Ireland and in 1299 was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland); this is one of the first references to the Court of Exchequer, which did not then have a full-time staff. He resigned as Baron in 1308 but  was reappointed the following year. In 1311 he succeeded Walter de Islip as Chief Baron, but apparently reverted to the status of ordinary Baron in 1313. He died in 1325, and his  estates passed to a cousin, Gilbert de Meones.
caption: All Saints Church,  East Meon: William de Meones  was born in East  Meon
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