General Notes

Stephen de Segrave, who in the 5th of King John was Constable of  the Tower of London, and remaining faithful to that monarch in his conflicts with the barons, obtained a grant in 17th of King John of the lands of Stephen de Gant lying in Lincoln and Leicester, with the manor of Kinton in Warwickshire. In 4th of Henry III he was made Governor of Saubey Castle in Leicester, and next year constituted Sheriff of Essex and Hertford, and afterwards of Leicestershire. About this time we find this successful person, whom Matthew Paris says "in his young days from a clerk was made a knight," acquired large landed property by purchase, and at length he so enriched and advanced himself that he was ranked amongst the highest nobility, was made Lord Chief Justice, and managed almost all the affairs of the nation as he pleased. He was a member of the King's Council for several years, and in the 16th of Henry III held the great office of Justiciary of England and was Governor of Dover, Canterbury and Rochester, and Constable of the Tower of London.
     After this we find him opposed to the bishops and barons, and his manor house of Segrave was burned to the ground by the populace. The King, too, in this perilous crisis deserted him, and cited him with others to appear forthwith at court in order to answer any charge regarding the wasting of the public treasury which might be preferred against them.  In 12 months subsequently, however, Stephen de Segrave made his peace by paying 1000 marks to the King, and afterwards grew into such favor that in the 21st of Henry III, 1237, he was the means of reconciling the King with some of his most hostile barons. Later being made Justice of Chester and the King's Chief Counselor and being now, says Dugdale,  "advanced in year, deported himself by experience of former times, with much more temper and moderation than heretofore."

This eminent person married twice: 1st Rohese, daughter of Stephen de Spenser, and
  2nd Ida, sister of Henry de Hastings, who was mother of his son Gilbert.  Ida de Hastings was the daughter of William de Hastings, who fought   in the cause of the Great Charta, but was not one of the Sureties, and   his wife Margery or Margaret Bigod, daughter of Roger Bigod, Surety for   the Magna Charta, and his wife Isabel de Warren, daughter of Hameline   Plantagenet de Warren and Isabel de Warren, daughter of William de   Warren and Ada de Talvas or Talvace; daughter of William, Count of   Alencon and Ponthieu, and Alix; daughter of Eudes Count of Burgundy   1102; son of Henri, Duke of Burgundy 1166; son of Robert, King of   Portugal; son of Robert, the Pious, King of France. Stephen de Segrave   departed this life 1241 and was succeeded by his son,     4. Gilbert de Segrave.