In 1281 Geoffrey Fitzleones and his wife Johanna granted the rents from their lands at Ballyardolf to the Augustinian Friary of Holy Trinity.
According to Elrington Ball, the practice of appointing Deputies to this office had begun ten years earlier with the appointment of Oliver FitzEustace, a natural son of Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester as Chief Baron.
Oliver, who owed his appointment solely to his father's great influence, was not only lacking in legal training, but was apparently mentally deficient and incapable of speech.
[4] In 1494 Wyse was replaced by Walter Ivers, former Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, as part of a general purge of Irish judges whose loyalty to the new Tudor dynasty was considered suspect, and Fitzleones was presumably removed at the same time.
While two serjeants occasionally acted at the same time, as a rule, there was only one, which suggests that Fitzleoenes had recently died.