Michael Belet (

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1182) was an English judge, sheriff of

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1176-81 and again in 1184, of

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1180-82, of

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and

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in conjunction with Ralph Glanvill 1185-87, and alone 1189-00. He appears as a justice itinerant for Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1177, in the following year for

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, and in 1179, on the redistribution of circuits which then took place, he was assigned for the eastern circuit. On several occasions between the latter years of

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's reign and the third of John, 1201-2, we find him acting as tallager in various counties. He is classed as a baron in the record of a fine levied before him in the exchequer in 1183, and in 1189-90 we find him acting with the barons in assessing imposts in the midland counties. He was lord of the

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, and of that

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. He married Emma, daughter and coheir of John de Keynes, by whom he had several sons, of whom the eldest was named Hervey after his grandfather, and the second Michael. The last fine recorded by Dugdale as having been levied before him is dated 1199. He likely died early in the thirteenth century. On his death his estates passed to his eldest son, Hervey, who, however, dying in 1207-8 without issue, was succeeded by his brother

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, who paid a fine of £100 upon the succession.

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Attribution

{{DEFAULTSORT:Belet, Michael (fl.1182) 12th-century English judges High sheriffs of Worcestershire High sheriffs of Leicestershire High sheriffs of Warwickshire