Alyce Chaucer

• Preferred Name: Alyce Chaucer^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Occupation: one of the first women members of the Order of the Garter; Duchess of Suffolk
  
• NFS ID: with note: Description: LC6Y-BD4 NFS
  
• Alice Chaucer de la Pole: 1475 in Ewelme, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.6158 LONG: E1.0793
  
• FSID: L1FT-MXF
  
• Birth: ABT 1404 in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.6158 LONG: E1.0793
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady
  
• Death: 20 MAY 1475 in Ewelme Manor, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.6157 LONG: E1.0794
  
• AFN: with note: Description: B1NF-K6 AFN
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Alice Chaucer spelled her name "Alyce" in her signed documents (correspondence, deeds and grants). She owned books in English, French and Latin, and there can be no doubt from a study of her life that she was literate in all three languages.
  
  A partial inventory in 1466 lists 21 books among her personal library, including books used for the Mass, song books, books of advice to princes, an epic book of feudal wars in rhymed French, a book on the achievements of admirable women, and one of advice to women, a book "The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man" - an allegory in poetry and prose, and (one of several books commissioned by the Duchess of Suffolk), "Virtues of the Mass".
  
  In her long widowhood after William de la Pole's death, she displayed remarkable administrative ability and political skill. She probably negotiated the marriage of her son John to Elizabeth Plantagenet (p 111-112). "These activities indicate that among Alice's attributes were common sense and wisdom, perhaps combined, as the contents of her library suggest, with some education." (p. 112)
  
  Source: The Library of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk
  
  "Documents by William de la Pole indicate that he held his wife in high esteem, naming her "his sole exécutrice," entrusting her with the care of his soul as well as of his lands and goods, and
  proclaiming that "above al the erthe my singuler trust is moost in her."17 Similarly, in a letter written just before his death, the Duke of Suffolk demonstrates his respect for her intelligence and wisdom when he charges his son to adhere to her advice in all matters:
  'alwey, as ye be bounden by the commaundement of God to do, to love, to worshepe youre ladye and moder, and also that ye alwey obey her commaundements, and to beleve hyr councelles and advises in allé youre werks, the which dredeth not, but shall be best and trewest to you. And yef any other body wold stere you to the contrarie, to flee the councell in any wyse, for ye shall fynde it nought and evyll.' "18
  
  Source: Ibid, p 110
  
  Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (c. 1404 – 1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, an honour granted rarely to women and marking the friendship between herself and her third husband William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk with King Henry VI and his wife Margaret of Anjou.
  
  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Chaucer,_Duchess_of_Suffolk
  
  Esther Ford Lowe (b 1848)
  ESTHER FORD LOWE
  
  I DO NOT KNOW WHO WROTE THIS OR HOW IT CAME INTO MY POSSESSION (Doug LeMon)
  Esther Ford was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Chandler Ford. She was born in England, June 1;,1848.
  
  === Granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer ===
  Granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer through his son Thomas.
  
  === Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk (1404–1475) ===
  Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk (1404–1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
  
  Contents [hide]
  1 Life
  2 Alice de la Pole's issue and the Yorkist claim to the throne
  2.1 Son
  2.2 Grandsons
  3 Further reading
  4 References
  Life[edit]
  Alice was born Alice Chaucer, daughter to Thomas Chaucer and Matilda Burghersh. Her grandfather was the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of The Canterbury Tales. When she was 11 she married Sir John Philip. The couple lived briefly at Donnington Castle, but Sir John died within a year. Sir John, also entitled Lord Dennington, had married Maud, the widow of Walter Cookesey of Caldwall Castle, Kidderminster in the County of Worcestershire. Sir John lived at Caldwall Castle during his marriage to Maud and upon her death married Alice Chaucer. Sir John, a close personal friend of Henry V, died of dysentery after the successful 22 September 1415 capture of the fortress of Harfleur in Normandy. Sir John is buried at St. Mary's Church in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
  
  Later, after 1421, Alice married Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury (who died in 1428). Finally, in 1430, she married William de la Pole, Earl and later Duke of Suffolk, by whom she had a son John in 1442 (who became 2nd Duke of Suffolk in 1463).
  
  William became constable of Wallingford Castle in 1434. Alice was a lady-in-waiting to Margaret of Anjou in 1445, and a patron of the arts.[1] William was steward of the household to Henry VI, and from 1447 to 1450 was the dominant force in the council and chief minister to the king; as such he was particularly associated with the unpopular royal policies whose failures culminated in the anti-court protest and political violence of Cade's Revolt in 1450.
  
  Alice could be both ruthless and acquisitive in pursuit of her son, John's, inheritance. In 1437, the Duke constructed the God's House at Ewelme, a reminder of their Catholic devotions. But after her husband's execution she took back much of her friend's, Margaret Paston's, manors in Norfolk, with dubious title deeds. The Pastons grew to loathe this Yorkist family, notorious for their corruption.
  
  In 1450, William was impeached by the Commons in Parliament, but Henry VI intervened to exile his favourite rather than have him tried by the Lords. On his way across the Channel his vessel was intercepted by The Nicholas of the Tower whose crew subjected him to a mock trial, after which he was beheaded and his body thrown overboard. William's remains were recovered from a beach at Dover, and Alice had her husband buried at the Carthusian Priory in Hull, founded in 1377 by his grandfather, Michael de la Pole, first Earl of Suffolk. After William was killed, his properties, including the castle and Honour of Wallingford and St Valery, passed to Alice. She lent the Crown 3500 Marks and the king spared the family from attainder of title. She survived many challenges to her position, including a state trial in 1451. Whilst she had benefited from Lancastrian connections, she switched to supporting the House of York during the Wars of the Roses. In 1455 she was custodian of the Duke of Exeter at the castle. She was officially castellan at Wallingford until at least 1471 and possibly until her death in 1475. In 1472, Alice became custodian of Margaret of Anjou, her former friend and patron. A wealthy landowner, Alice de la Pole held land in 22 counties, and was a patron to poet John Lydgate.
  
  She is buried in an elaborate church monument incorporating a Cadaver tomb at St Mary's Church, Ewelme.[2][3] Alice's alabaster tomb, almost undamaged by time, consists of a canopy of panelled stone, below which is the recumbent effigy of the Duchess atop the tomb chest which contains her remains; the space beneath the chest encloses her sculpted cadaver, which is viewed through elaborate reticulated arches.[4] Her effigy was examined by Queen Victoria's commissioners in order to discover how a lady should wear the Order of the Garter.
  
  Alice de la Pole's issue and the Yorkist claim to the throne[edit]
  Son[edit]
  Alice's son, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, married Elizabeth, the second surviving daughter of Richard of York and Cecily Neville.
  
  This marriage brought Yorkist royal connections into the de la Pole family: Elizabeth's siblings included the Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III, George, Duke of Clarence and Margaret of York (later Duchess of Burgundy).
  
  Grandsons[edit]
  John de la Pole's three sons by Elizabeth - Alice's grandsons - pursued the unsuccessful Yorkist claim to the throne against Henry VII.
  
  John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln, was designated heir to his uncle Richard III and pursued the Yorkist claim to the throne under Henry VII. Along with his aunt Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy he supported the pretender Lambert Simnel, but was killed at the Battle of Stoke (1487).
  Lincoln's younger brother, Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, became the leading Yorkist claimant to Henry VII's throne and was executed in 1513.
  Richard de la Pole, their youngest brother, continued the Yorkist claim until he was slain at the Battle of Pavia, 1525.
  Further reading[edit]
  The History of Wallingford, in the County of Berks: 1327 to 1880. Churches and monastic institutions. W. Clowes. 1881. Mate, Mavis E. (1999). Women in Medieval English Society. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58733-4

• m. AFT 1421

1. Title: The Library of Alice Chaucer
   Author: The Profane Arts of the Middle Ages/ Les Arts Profanes du Moyen–Âge: Commanding women (in honor of Charity Canon Willard). Vol. VII, No. 2, Autumn 1998 "The Library of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk: A Fifteenth-Century Owner of a 'Boke of le Citee de Dames' " by Karen K. Jambeck
   Publication: Name: https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/853988/05_jambeck_karen_k_1998-the_library_of_alice_chaucer_duchess_of_suffolk.pdf;
   Note: The Library of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, database online, (a pdf file) by Karen K. Jambeck, describing the books owned and used by Alyce, Duchess of Suffolk. Her known works are serious texts concerning religion, philosophy, and governing, and their collected wisdom is reflected in her history, (see particularly pages 131 - 134). Pages 106 - 135
   
2. Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Thomas Chaucer
   Author: King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-346/ [Accessed: 20/1/2020]
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/99447460;
   Note: THOMAS CHAUCER 346 Writ. ‡ Dogmersfield. 30 November 1434. [Stopyndon]. SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Ipswich. 13 May 1435. [Brews]. Jurors: William Ede ; John Bradwey ; William Fysk ; John Wrighte ; Edmund Capell ; William Baldry ; John Nunne ; John Baldry ; Thomas Eston ; Roger Lobbe ; Robert Apiltweite ; and Edmund Boyhoo . He held 1/2 manor of Stratford St Andrew with Maud lately his wife, still living, from her inheritance. He also held with Maud the other moiety of the manor, with advowson of the church there, by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, to Thomas and Maud, and to the heirs of their bodies, with reversion to John and Margaret, and to the heirs of Margaret. The grant was made by a fine levied in 1417, shown to the jurors [CP 25/1/291/64, no. 69]. Stratford St Andrew, the manor with advowson of the church there, held of the prior of St Mary’s, Thetford, as 1/2 knight’s fee and by rent of 20s. yearly for all service. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 90 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 35s. 4d. rent, payable yearly at Easter and Michaelmas equally. He died on 18 November last. Alice, countess of Suffolk , is his daughter and next heir, and aged 30 years and more. C 139/70/35 mm.1–2 347 Writ. ‡ Dogmersfield. 30 November 1434. [Stopyndon]. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Caxton. 7 November 1435. [Burgoyn]. Jurors: John Wodeuarde ; John Smyht of Eltisley; Simon Lauenam ; John Chenyn ; Geoffrey Norman ; William Radford, junior ; John Norys ; John Creke ; Robert Selby ; William Cutelawe ; William Baron ; and John Canoun . He held a moiety of the following with Maud lately his wife, still living, from her inheritance. He also held the other moiety with Maud, by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife as 346 [CP 25/1/291/64, no. 69]. Bourn, 120 a. land, worth 40s. yearly, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 3 a. meadow, worth 3s. yearly, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 3s. rent, held of Warin Ingryth of his manor in Bourn called ‘Rykesbymanoir’ by fealty for all service. Date of death and heir as 346. C 139/70/35 mm.3–4 348 Writ. ‡ Dogmersfield. 30 November 1434. [Shelford]. LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Horncastle. 4 February 1435. [Seynt Paule]. Jurors: Thomas Whitecroft and William Croft of Burgh le Marsh; William Fichet of Skendleby; John Wilkynson of Bratoft; Stephen Imme of Partney; William Pleson of Burgh le Marsh; John Tutte of Winthorpe; John Baudy of Partney; John Warde of Skendleby; Adam Thorp of Thorpe; Thomas Rysyll of Ashby by Partney; and John Vertiman of Steeping. He held the following in right of Maud his wife, still living, one of the daughters and heirs of John Burgherssh, knight . Skendleby, a moiety of 1/3 manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. In the moiety, there are 4 tofts, each worth 12d. yearly; 30 a. land and pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. meadow and pasture, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 60s. rent, payable yearly at Michaelmas only; and 4 1/2 a. wood, worth nothing yearly above enclosure of the same. Partney, a moiety of 1/18 of the profits of the Saturday market, and a moiety of 1/18 of the profits of the tolls at the fairs (nundinarum) held on the vigils and feasts of St Mary Magdalene, and the Assumption and Nativity of Mary, worth 9d. yearly; and 5s. rent from free tenants, taken yearly at Michaelmas, the feast of St Andrew the Apostle, Easter, and the feast of St Botulph equally, held of Lord Beaumont by knight service. Date of death and heir as 346. Alice is also daughter and next heir of Thomas and Maud. [Foot:] returned to Chancery on 1 March. C 139/70/35 mm.5–6 349 Writ. ‡ Dogmersfield. 30 November 1434. [Stopyndon]. BERKSHIRE. Inquisition. Grandpont. 13 April 1435. [Catermayns]. Jurors: William Fitz Waryn ; John Medford ; William Latton ; Andrew Baron ; Richard Kene ; William Ricardes ; John Absolon ; Thomas Absolon ; William Newman ; William Samon ; Richard Bacon ; and John Sexteyn . He held the following jointly with John Golafre , John Cotesmore , John Hampden , and Thomas Haseley , still living, by grant of William Fitz Waryn, esquire , Thomas Estbury , Thomas Somerton , and Thomas Coventre , to Thomas Chaucer , John Golafre , John Cotesmore , John Hampden , and Thomas Haseley , and Robert James and Richard Wyot , now deceased, and to their heirs. The grant was made by charter dated on 27 September 1425, shown to the jurors. Royal licence was not obtained. Buckland, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service, quantity unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 400 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 200 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 100s. rent, payable yearly at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Buckland, 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly. They are not held of the king, but of whom, and by what service, is unknown. He held the following jointly with Maud lately his wife, still living, by grant of Alice, countess of Suffolk , in pure widow-right, to Thomas and Maud, and to their heirs and assigns. The grant was made by her charter, in which she is described as Alice, countess of Salisbury . The charter, dated on 26 November 1430, was shown to the jurors. Hatford, the manor by Buckland. It is not held of the king, but of whom, and by what service, is unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 300 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 60s. rent, payable yearly at the feasts above equally. He also held an annuity of 20 marks fee-farm from the vill of Wallingford for life by grant of ‪ Henry IV . Date of death and heir as 346. C 139/70/35 mm.7–8 350 Writ. ‡ Dogmersfield. 30 November 1434. [Stopyndon]. ESSEX. Inquisition. Chelmsford (Chem...). [Iwardeby]. [Inquisition: only the left-hand edge of the ms, running complete from head to foot, remains.] Jurors: John Mason ; Richard Squyer ; John Dyer ... ... a moiety... of the same Maud, and the other moiety... and Margaret his wife by a certain... shown in evidence, to Thomas... should die, then after... and the heirs of Margaret... d. yearly at Michaelmas... [in] the manor, 100 a. demesne land that... of wood, worth nothing yearly as sold... equally.n140 ... knight, deceased, a messuage and a [carucate of land]... certain messuage and land were lately assigned... Burgherssh in the said county according to.... And the carucate of land is worth... service unknown. [Date of death and heir as 346.] C 139/70/35 mm.9–10 351 Writ. ‡ Dogmersfield. 30 November 1434. [Shelford]. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Aylesbury. 20 June 1435. [Burton]. Jurors: Henry Porter ; William Bryzthwell ; John Goold ; John Houchons ; John Caldecote ; Richard Touresey ; John Pepyr ; William Hether ; William Tempell ; John Thomas ; Richard Puksted ; and Matthew Colet . He held the following in his demesne as of fee, jointly with Maud lately his wife, John Hampden , Thomas Bracton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe , and John Seynesbury, clerk , still living, by grant of Henry Somerton , Richard Wyot , Henry Aston , John Warfeld , and Geoffrey Prentys, clerk . The grant was made by charter to Thomas Chaucer and Maud, John Hampden , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe , and John Seynesbury, clerk , and William Hervy , now deceased, and to their heirs.n141 The charter is dated on 1 August 1431 and was shown to the jurors. Hambleden, 100 a. land, 6 a. meadow, 100 a. wood, and 10s. rent. Each acre of 100 a. arable is worth 2d. yearly, and no more because the land is stony, and 20 a. wood is worth nothing yearly, because the wood is timber. They are held of Lord Scrope, service unknown .n142 He held the following in his demesne as of fee. Brill, the manor, held of the king in chief as a knight’s fee. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; a windmill, worth 10s. yearly; 180 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly and no more as forested; 26 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 400 a. wood, worth nothing yearly as timber; 100s. assize rent from free tenants, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally; and perquisites of court, worth nothing yearly above the steward’s fee. Beachendon, the manor, held of the honour of Wallingford, service unknown. There is the site, worth 8d. yearly; a dovecot, worth nothing yearly as ruinous; 210 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly; an enclosed, several pasture, worth 20d. yearly in total; 2s. assize rent from free tenants, payable at the said feasts; and perquisites of court, worth nothing yearly above the steward’s fee. Date of death and heir as 346. C 139/70/35 mm.11–12 Additional IPMs in the attached pdf.
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3. Title: Our Royal Tiled Ancestors - Lady Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1607.htm#i48293;
   
4. Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Isabel who was wife of Stephen Haytfeld, esquire
   Author: King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-659/ [Accessed: 20/1/2020]
   Publication: Name: http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-659/;
   Note: ISABEL WHO WAS WIFE OF STEPHEN HAYTFELD, ESQUIRE n254 659 Writ. ‡ 5 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Oxford. 23 May 1437. [Somerton].n255 Jurors: Richard Englys ; William Ardern ; John Cornewayll ; Richard Pursell ; Robert Croxford ; Roger Radley ; James Samwell ; Richard Newby ; John Yerman ; Thomas atte Hyde ; William Hamylden ; and John Fitzaleyn . She held the following jointly with Stephen her husband by grant of Thomas Dru and Edmund Rede by a fine levied in the king’s court in 1425 [CP 25/1/191/27, no. 8], shown to the jurors, to have to Stephen and Isabel during Isabel’s lifetime, without impeachment for waste during that period, remainder wholly to Thomas Chaucer and his heirs. Newnham Murren, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service, quantity unknown. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth nothing yearly because ruinous; 400 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; £8 yearly rent, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas; a park with a rabbit-warren, worth nothing yearly; a ferry for passage beyond the water, worth 10s. yearly; and 2 watermills with fishery, worth 4 marks yearly. Thomas Chaucer died on 18 November 1434. Isabel died on 2 May 1437. Joan, wife of Drew Barantyn , and Elizabeth, wife of John Wenlok , are her daughters and next heirs, aged 24 years and more and 23 years and more, respectively. Alice, wife of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk , is daughter and next heir of Thomas Chaucer , aged 32 years and more. C 139/82/47 mm.1–2 660 Writ. ‡ 5 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition. Basingstoke. 4 November 1437. [Roche]. Jurors: Philip Baynard ; John Sutton ; Simon Alman ; Edmund Tanke ; John Cooke ; Richard Cottesmore ; Roger Kent ; John Leche ; William Whelere ; William Langecroft ; Oliver Leche ; and Henry Parkere . Maurice Russell, knight , now deceased, was seised of the following manors and advowsons in demesne as of fee and thus seised he granted them, among other manors, lands and tenements, by a charter dated on 10 May 1416, shown to the jurors, to William Hankeford, knight , Robert Hull , one of the king’s justices of the Common Bench, William Cheyny, knight , Maurice Brwne, knight , Robert Poynes , Hugh Deverell , John Iwn , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund Forde and John Boef and their heirs and assigns. By virtue of this grant they were seised in demesne as of fee. Afterwards, William Hankeford , Robert Hull , William Cheyny and Hugh died, and Maurice Russell similarly died. After their deaths, John Iwn , by a deed of his, likewise shown to the jurors, remised all his right and claim to the manors and advowsons, among other things, for him and his heirs and assigns, to Maurice Brwne , Robert Poynes , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund and John and their heirs and assigns. Afterwards, by a charter of theirs dated on 24 May 1432, similarly shown to the jurors, they enfeoffed Isabel, by the name Isabel, Lady Scrope , then the wife of Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , and Margaret, wife of John Kemmes, esquire , daughters and heirs of Maurice Russell, knight , and their heirs and assigns with the manors and advowsons, among other manors, lands and tenements. By virtue of this enfeoffment Isabel and Margaret were seised of the manors and advowsons in demesne as of fee. Stephen and Isabel and John Kemmes and Margaret assigned a third part to Joan, wife of John Stradelyng, knight , who had been the wife of Maurice Russell , in dower after Maurice’s death. Subsequently, by a fine levied on the quindene of Martinmas 1436 [CP 25/1/292/68, no. 195], between John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston, clerk , Richard Drayton , William Marmeon and John Stowe, querents , and John Kemes and Margaret his wife and Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , still living, and Isabel his wife, deforciants, John Kemes , Margaret, Stephen and Isabel recognised the manors and advowsons, among other things, to belong by right to John Cottesmore as that which he and Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe had from their grant. By this fine John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe granted to Stephen and Isabel 2/3 of the manors and advowsons for life. They also granted, for them and the heirs of John Cottesmore , that the 1/3 part then held by John Stradelyng, knight , and Joan his wife, still living, for Joan’s lifetime, of the inheritance of John Cottesmore , which should revert after her death to John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe and the heirs of John Cottesmore , should wholly remain to Stephen and Isabel for life, reversion of the whole to John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe and the heirs of John Cottesmore . By virtue of this fine Stephen and Isabel were seised of two parts of the manors and advowsons, and of the reversion of the third part, in demesne as of free tenement. Isabel died thus seised. Yaverland, Rowborough and Southwade St Lawrence , 2/3 manors, on the Isle of Wight, and of the advowsons of Yaverland and Southwade St Lawrence, annual value beyond charges and reprises £20, held together with the third part of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester , as of his castle of Carisbrook, on the Isle of Wight, service unknown. She died on 1 May last. Maurice de la Ryver , her son and next heir, is aged 30 years and more. C 139/82/47 mm.3–4 661 Writ. ‡ 5 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. Addressed to the escheator of Somerset and Dorset . SOMERSET. Inquisition. Ilchester. 23 October 1437. [Hody]. Jurors: John Gilden ; John Widecombe ; Nicholas Case ; John Welweton ; John Lymyngton ; John Bailly ; William Lumbard ; Ralph Manston ; Stephen Hoper ; Henry Messenger ; Robert Geffray ; and John Irlond . She did not hold lands or tenements of the king in chief or of any other in demesne or in service. Date of death and heir as 660, except Maurice’s age is here given as 28 years and more. C 139/82/47 mm.5–6 662 [Writ: see 661.] DORSET. Inquisition. Sherborne. 29 October 1437. [Hody]. Jurors: John Spencer ; John Dare ; Peter Pyneford ; John Skreveyn ; John Pupelpen ; John Milbourne ; John Kaylewey ; Thomas Wyseman ; Richard Rochell ; William Rider ; William Knaplok ; John Dene ; and Thomas Donne . John Haket, senior , of the Isle of Wight, esquire, was lately seised of the following in demesne as of fee, which, by a charter of his, shown to the jurors, dated at Bradpole on 29 September 1436, he demised to Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , and Isabel, named in the writ, then his wife, Lady Scrope, and her heirs and assigns, to hold of the chief lord of the fee by due services. The charter described the following as all his mill, lands, pastures and reversions in Bradpole. By virtue of this demise Stephen and Isabel were then seised, viz., Stephen in demesne as of free tenement and Isabel in demesne as of fee, and Isabel died this way jointly seised with Stephen, still living. The following now belongs to Stephen by right of survivorship. Bradpole, a watermill and an acre of land, annual value 13s. 4d., held of the king in chief by rent of 6s. 8d., payable at Michaelmas. By a fine levied on the quindene of Martinmas 1436 [CP 25/1/292/68, no. 195], between John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston, clerk , Richard Drayton , William Marmeon and John Stowe, querents , and John Kemes, esquire , and Margaret his wife and Stephen and Isabel, deforciants , relating to Bradpole, among other specified manors, John Kemes , Margaret, Stephen and Isabel recognised that the manor, among other things, belonged by right to John Cottesmore as that which John and the other querents had by their grant, to hold to them and the heirs of John Cottesmore from the chief lords of the fee by due services. Moreover, John Kemes and Margaret and Stephen and Isabel granted for them and the heirs of Margaret and Isabel that they would warrant the manor, among other things, to John Cottesmore , the other querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore against all men. By this fine John Cottesmore and the other querents granted Stephen and Isabel 2/3 of the manor, among other things, to have and hold, from the querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore for the whole of Stephen and Isabel’s lives, without impeachment for waste during Isabel’s lifetime, for a rose yearly at Midsummer, rendering to the chief lords of the fee, for the querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore , all other services belonging to them. They also granted, for them and the heirs of John Cottesmore , to Stephen and Isabel for life remainder wholly of the other 1/3 of the manor, held at the time of the fine of the inheritance of John Cottesmore by John Stradelyng, knight , and Joan his wife for Joan’s lifetime, without impeachment for waste during Isabel’s lifetime, reversion wholly to the querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore , quit of the heirs of Stephen and Isabel, to hold of the chief lords of the fee by due services. This fully appears in the one part of the fine shown to the jurors. By virtue of this fine, Stephen and Isabel were seised of the 2/3 of the manor, among other things, in demesne as of free tenement, and Isabel died thus seised jointly with Stephen. Stephen is still living and the 2/3 belongs to him by right of survivorship. Bradpole, 2/3 manor, annual value 20 marks, held together with the other 1/3 manor of William Bonevile, knight , as of his manor of Chuton, service unknown. Date of death and heir as 660. C 139/82/47 mm.5, 7 n254^: This title is not used in the first inquisition (m. 2), and in the third inquisition (m. 6) it is interlined. n255^: Marginalia: ‘examined’.
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5. Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Maud who was wife of Thomas Chaucer
   Author: King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-680/ [Accessed: 20/1/2020]
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   Note: MAUD WHO WAS WIFE OF THOMAS CHAUCER 680 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Inquisition. Linton. 4 June 1437. [Alyngton]. Jurors: Simon Smyth of Longstowe; John Baye ; Thomas Ma ...[hole in ms]; Thomas Chiche ; John Auncell ; John Bailly ; Ralph Bette ; John Hornewold ; John Cosyn ; John Bovuse ; John Yukflete ; and Robert Hawekyn . She held half of the following in demesne as of fee. The other half she held in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife by a fine levied in the king’s court in 1417 [CP 25/1/291/64, no. 69],n256 shown to the jurors, to Thomas and her, both now deceased, and the heirs of their bodies, reversion to John and Margaret and the heirs of Margaret. Bourn, 120 a. land, worth 40s. yearly, viz., each acre worth 4d. yearly, 3 a. meadow, worth 3s., viz., each acre worth 12d. yearly, and 3s. rent, held of Warin Ingryth as of his manor of Bourn, called ‘Rykesby Manoir’, by fealty. She died on 27 April last. Alice, wife of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk , is daughter and next heir both of Maud and of Thomas and Maud, and is aged 32 years and more. C 139/83/53 mm.1–2 681 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Aylesbury. 27 May 1437. [Hanham]. Jurors: Thomas Bylyndon ; Nicholas Baroun ; William Pede ; Richard Olyvere ; John Frankeleyn ; Ralph Tibbes ; Thomas Kybold ; Henry Lane ; William Tempell ; John Hogges ; Robert Rawlyn ; and John Howes . She held the following in demesne as of fee jointly with John Hampden , Thomas Bretton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe and John Seynesbury, clerk , still living, by grant of Henry Somer , Richard Wyot , Henry Aston , John Warfeld and Geoffrey Prentys, clerk , to John Hampden , Thomas Bretton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe and John Seynesbury, clerk , still living, and Thomas Chaucer , Maud his wife and William Hervy , now deceased, and their heirs, as fully contained in a charter of theirs dated on 1 August 1431, shown to the jurors. Hambleden, 100 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly, and no more because stony, 6 a. meadow, worth 3s. 4d. yearly, and 10s. rent, held of Lord Scrope , service unknown. Date of death and heir as 680, except that Thomas is not mentioned. C 139/83/53 mm.3–4 682 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition. Lincoln, the castle. 3 June 1437. [Langholme].n257 Jurors: William Fychet of Skendleby; Simon Johnson of Ashby by Partney; Richard Daly and John Dandy of Partney; John Warde of Skendleby; Thomas Rysyll of Ashby by Partney; John Grene of Partney; Thomas Gryseby of Donington; Roger Clerk of Oxcombe; William Cok of Huttoft; William Hawberd of Skendleby; and Robert Gentyll of Beesby. She held the following in demesne as of fee.n258 Skendleby, a moiety of 1/3 manor, held of the king in chief as 1/20 knight’s fee. There are 4 tofts, each worth 12d. yearly; 30 a. land and pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. meadow and pasture, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 60s. rent, payable at Michaelmas only; and 4 1/2 a. wood, worth nothing beyond enclosure. She died seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Partney, a moiety of 1/18 of the profits of the Saturday market, a moiety of 1/18 of the profits of the tolls of the fairs (nundinarum) held yearly on the vigils and days of St Mary Magdalene, the Assumption and the Nativity of Mary, worth 9d. yearly, and 5s. rent from free tenants, payable yearly at Michaelmas, the feast of St Andrew the Apostle, Easter and the feast of St Botulph equally, held of Lord Beaumont by knight service. Date of death as 680. Alice, wife of William, earl of Suffolk , is her daughter and next heir, and is aged 32 years and more. C 139/83/53 mm.5–6 683 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Botesdale. 7 June 1437. [Rippeley]. Jurors: Thomas Goldfynch ; William Herman ; John Rampoyll ; John Fitz John ; Simon Yonge ; Walter Leche ; John Pope ; John Vale ; John Candeler ; Thomas de Tovune ; Edmund Tabour ; and Edmund Sutburne . She held the manors of Henham and Bulcamp and 1/2 manor of Stratford St Andrew in demesne as of fee.n259 The other half of the manor of Stratford St Andrew, with advowson of the church, she held in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, etc., as 680.n260 Henham, the manor, not held of the king but of others, service unknown. There is a site, worth nothing yearly; 80 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 50 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 24s. 6d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Bulcamp, the manor, not held of the king but of others, service unknown. There is a manorial site, worth 20d. yearly; 160 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 5d. yearly; 140 a. pasture and heath, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 6 a. underwood, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 60s. 4d. assize rent, payable as above; a rabbit-warren, worth nothing beyond its custody; and a court baron held every 3 weeks, worth nothing yearly. Stratford St Andrew, the manor, with advowson of the church, held of the prior of the monks of St Mary’s, Thetford as 1/2 knights fee and for 20s. yearly rent. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 90 a. arable, each acre worth 3 1/2d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 36s. 4d. assize rent, payable as above. Date of death as 680. Alice, wife of William, earl of Suffolk , is daughter and next heir of both Thomas and Maud and of Maud, and is aged 32 years and more. C 139/83/53 mm.7–8 684 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. ESSEX. Inquisition. Chelmsford. 28 May 1437. [Paule].n261 Jurors: William Spenser ; Richard Sawyer ; Thomas Fuller ; Thomas Chapman ; Robert Brydde ; John Rouchestr ; John Hawkyn ; John Spilman ; John Carter ; John Mason ; William Bernard ; and John Smerman . She held half the following in demesne as of fee. The other half she held in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, etc., as 680.n262 Hatfield Peverel, the manor, held of the king as of his manor of Pleshey, which is parcel of the earldom of Hereford, by fealty and by service of 12d. yearly, payable at Michaelmas only. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 100 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 200 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because sold and coppiced, without pasture; and 100s. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. She held the following in demesne as of fee. Hatfield Peverel, a messuage, worth 20s. yearly, and a carucate of landworth 40s. yearly, called ‘Termyns’, not held of the king , but of whom held or by what service unknown. Date of death and heir as 683. C 139/83/53 mm.9–10 Additional IPMs in the attached pdf.
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6. Title: UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
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