High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Barre (c. 1130 – c. 1202) was a medieval English justice, clergyman, and scholar. He was educated at the law school of Bologna, and entered royal service under King Henry II of England, later working for Henry`s son and successor Richard I. He was also briefly in the household of Henry`s son Henry the Young King. Barre served the elder Henry as a diplomat, and was involved in a minor way with the king`s quarrel with Thomas Becket, which earned Barre a condemnation from Becket. After King Henry`s death, Barre became a royal justice during Richard`s reign, and was one of the main judges in the period from 1194 to 1199. During the reign of King John, Barre was no longer employed as a judge owing to earlier disagreements with John. Barre was the author of a work of Biblical extracts dedicated to one of his patrons, William Longchamp, the Bishop of Ely and Chancellor of England.