Robert Parning

{{short description|Member of the Parliament of England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Use British English|date=June 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Robert Parning | image = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Lord High Chancellor of England | term_start = 1341 | term_end = 1343 | monarch = Edward III | prime_minister = Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster<br>''(as Lord High Steward)'' | predecessor = Robert Bourchier | successor = Robert Sadington | prior_term = | order2 = | office2 = Lord High Treasurer | term_start2 = 15 January 1341 | term_end2 = 30 October 1341 | monarch2 = Edward III | prime_minister2 = Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster<br>''(as Lord High Steward)'' | chancellor2 = Robert Bourchier | predecessor2 = Roger Northburgh | successor2 = William Cusance | order3 = 27th | office3 = Lord Chief Justice of England | term_start3 = 21 July 1340 | term_end3 = 8 January 1341 | monarch3 = Edward III | prime_minister3 = Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster<br>''(as Lord High Steward)'' | chancellor3 = Robert Bourchier | predecessor3 = Richard de Willoughby | successor3 = William Scott | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date|1343|8|26|df=y}} | death_place = London | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | spouse = Isabel Parning }}

'''Sir Robert Parning''' (or '''Parving'''; died 26 August 1343) was an English lawyer and administrator.

==Life== The son of Robert Parning of Cumberland, he was five times knight of the shire in Parliament for his native Cumberland (1325, 1327, 1328, 1331 and 1332).

He became serjeant-at-law in 1329 and served as King's Serjeant from 1333 to 1339 and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1340 to 1341. He was Treasurer from January to October 1341<ref name=Powicke101>Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 101</ref> and Chancellor from 1341 to 1343.<ref name=Powicke84>Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 84</ref> He was knighted in 1340.

==Family== Parning was married to Isabel, but had no surviving sons. When he died in London in 1343 his inheritance was divided up between his two sisters.

==References== {{reflist}}

==Sources== *Kingsford, C. L., 'Parning, Sir Robert (d. 1343)', rev. W. M. Ormrod, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21392], retrieved 8 Aug 2006. {{DNBfirst|wstitle=Parning, Robert|volume=43}} *Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

{{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{succession box | title=Lord Chief Justice | before = Richard de Willoughby | after = William Scott | years = 1340–1341}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=Lord High Treasurer | before=Roger Northburgh | after=William Cusance| years=1341–1341}} {{succession box | title=Lord Chancellor | before=Robert Bourchier | after=Robert Sadington | years=1341–1343}} {{s-end}}

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