Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 22, 1422-27
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ELIZABETH WIDOW OF
JOHN
DE
FENWYK, CHEVALIER
813
Writ [unclassified].
‡
20 October 1426. [
Frank]
Regarding specified information provided by Henry son and heir of
Alan
de
Fenwyk
, son and heir of
John
de
Fenwyk
and Elizabeth, concerning his marriage: although Henry proved his age, delivery of his lands and tenements, which came into the hands of Henry IV owing to Alan’s death and Henry’s minority, is not possible until whether or not Henry’s marriage belongs of right to the king is established in Chancery. Inquiry thus whether Alan held land at his death in Fowberry and Coldmartin in his demesne as of fee of
William
de
Folbery
by knight service and nothing of the king; whether William was seised of the custody of the lands and the body of Henry during Elizabeth’s lifetime; and whether Henry was married during her lifetime.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Inquisition.
Newcastle upon Tyne castle.
12 December 1426. [
Strother]
Jurors:
Thomas
de
Lilburne
;
Laurence
de
Acton
;
Robert
de
Claueryng
;
William
de la
Vale
;
Simon
de
Weltden
;
John
de
Bellyngham
;
William
de
Bedenall
;
John
Karr
;
William
Benet
; and
Robert
Jakson
of Blakeden.
As detailed in the writ, the inquisition held before
Thomas
Grey of Wark, chevalier
, and others by commission of Henry IV and returned to his Chancery [CIPM XIX, no. 938], found that Elizabeth held 1/3 of 1/2 manor of Lowick, amongst other things, in her demesne as of fee of the king in chief by service of 1/6 knight’s fee; that she died on 23 June 1410; and that
Henry
de
Fenwyk
, son and heir of
Alan
de
Fenwyk, chevalier
, deceased son and heir of John and Elizabeth, was the kinsman and heir of John and Elizabeth and was aged 7 years and more at the time of that inquisition.
Henry provided the king with the intelligence that his father held a holding in Fowberry and Coldmartin at his death, and details of his marriage.
Alan
de
Fenwyk, chevalier
, deceased, father of
Henry
de
Fenwyk
, held his holding in Fowberry and Coldmartin of a messuage, a cottage, a husbandland and 1/7 demesne lands called ‘les demayns’ in Fowberry, and a messuage, a cottage, a husbandland and 1/3 demesne lands similarly called in Caldmartin, in his demesne as of fee at the time of his death on 8 May 1406, of
William
de
Folbery
, named in the writ, by knight service, and no lands or tenements in his demesne as of fee of the king by knight service. Immediately after Alan’s death,
William
de
Folbery
was seised of the tenements and body of Henry as the minor son and heir of Alan, by reason of custody, and was seised during Elizabeth’s lifetime. William sold Henry’s marriage to Margaret widow of
Alan
de
Fenwyk
; she granted the marriage to
William
Legh, chevalier
; and he married Henry to Joan his daughter, during Elizabeth’s lifetime.
C 139/31/60 mm.1–2