Petronilla Grapenel

• Preferred Name: Petronilla Grapenel^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: Isabelle de Benstede
  
• Alternate Name: Isabella de Benstede
  
• Alternate Name: Isabella de Benstede
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: 9ZHB-QXL
  
• Birth: ABT 1272 in Hatfield, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.5667 LONG: E0.9833
  
• Death: 1342 in Great Stambridge, Essex, England at LATI: N1.5965 LONG: E0.743
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  BIRTH: Inquisition post mortem of Henry Grapinel of Essex taken at Fambridge, 4 Jan 26, Edward I [1297/8], abstracted in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office , vol. 3, Edward I (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1912), 343. Petronilla was listed as 22 years old and the wife of "John son of John." Also George Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls...A.D. 1200 to 1500 (London: Harrison, 1905), 14. Petronilla is also mentioned in a second inquisition post mortem for Henry Grapinell taken 23 July 1327 (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, vol. 7, Edward III [London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1909], 19-20).
  MAR #1: Inquistion post mortem of her father, 4 Jan 1297/8, cited above. Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 14, cited above, where Petronilla's husband is called "John son of John Fitz Simon."
  MAR #2: Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 109.
  DEATH: Inquisition post mortem of Petronilla, late wife of John de Benstede, taken in 26 Apr 1342 (Essex), 24 Apr 1342 (Herts.), and 5 May 1342 (Cambs.), abstracted in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, vol. 8, Edward III (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1913), 249– 50
  
  Petronilla (Parnell) Grapenel, co-heiress
  Eldest d/o Henry Grapenell & Margaret
  b- 1278 - age 22 1300 -Great Stambridge, Essex, England
  m- 1 - John FitzJohn FitzSimon
  m- 2- sir John Bensted d- 1323
  d- 1342 - Great Stambridge, Essex, England
  
  BIRTH: Inquisition post mortem of Henry Grapinel of Essex taken at Fambridge, 4 Jan 26, Edward I [1297/8], abstracted in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office , vol. 3, Edward I (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1912), 343. Petronilla was listed as 22 years old and the wife of "John son of John." Also George Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls...A.D. 1200 to 1500 (London: Harrison, 1905), 14. Petronilla is also mentioned in a second inquisition post mortem for Henry Grapinell taken 23 July 1327 (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, vol. 7, Edward III [London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1909], 19-20).
  MAR #1: Inquistion post mortem of her father, 4 Jan 1297/8, cited above. Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 14, cited above, where Petronilla's husband is called "John son of John Fitz Simon."
  MAR #2: Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 109.
  DEATH: Inquisition post mortem of Petronilla, late wife of John de Benstede, taken in 26 Apr 1342 (Essex), 24 Apr 1342 (Herts.), and 5 May 1342 (Cambs.), abstracted in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, vol. 8, Edward III (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1913), 249– 50
  
  1298 - heir - Great Stambirdge, Essex, England
  
  11 Dec 1300 - IPM - Henry Grapynel
  Held - essex - Little Waukering, Lachingdon , Little Berdefeld - Great Stanbridge
  his daughters are his next heirs - PETRONILLA, age 22 M- John s/ John
  
  1320 - seal of Parnel (Petronilla) d/o Henry Grapenel
  Widow of 1- John FitzJohn
  Widow of 2- sir John Bensted d- 1323
  
  132- held life estates of 2nd husband , in dower
  
  === Temple work done under name of Mrs Petro ===
  Temple work done under name of Mrs Petronilla Benstede. Widow of John Fitz John Fitz Simon d. 1303.

• m. BEF 1297

1. Hugh FitzSimond, b. ABT 1300 in England     d. AFT 1351

1. Edmund De Benstede, b. 1310 in Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1380

1. Edmund Bensted, b. 1310 (age 13 1323) in Higham-Bensted, Essex, England    
2. Edmund De Benstede, b. 1310 in Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1380

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