Sir Julius CAESAR, Knight
Born: 1557/8
Died: 18 Apr 1636
Buried: 28 Apr 1636, Great St Helen'S Bishosgate, London, Middlesex, England
Father: Cesar ADELMARE
Mother: Margaret PERIN
Married 1: Dorcas MARTIN (dau. of Richard Martin, Goldsmith, Mayor of London, and Dorcas Egleston)
Children:
1. Julius CAESAR
Married 2: ¿? (w. of John Dent, Aldermen of London)
An English judge and politician. He was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. His father was Cesar Adelmare an Italina physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the Dukes de Cesarini. Julius had two brothers, Thomas and Henry Caesar.
He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the University of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was made a doctor of civil law. Two years later he was took a similar degree at Oxford, and became doctor of the canon law. He represented Reigate, Bletchingley and Windsor in Parliament. He held many high offices during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, including a judgeship of the admiralty court (1584), a mastership in chancery (1588), treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1593 and a mastership of the court of requests (1595).
He was knighted at Greenwich by King James in May of 1603, and became Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer 1606-1614. In 1614 was appointed Master of the Rolls, an office which he held till his death in 1636.
His eldest son (also Julius Caesar) was sent to Padua to study at the university. He was wounded whilst fencing with Antonia Brochetta and sought revenge. He lay in wait for him with a pistol, but his shot missed. He then fell while attempting to draw his sword and was set upon by Brochetta who ran him through and killed him.
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