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ELIZABETH WIFE OF JOHN FORTESCU, JUNIOR
332 Writ devenerunt . 1 December 1429. [Wymbyssh]. Elizabeth was one of the daughters of Robert son of Ebote daughter of Agnes mother of Otes Champernon . She was thus kin and one of the heirs of Otes who held by knight service of Thomas, earl of Devon , a minor in the wardship of ‪ Henry VI .
DEVON. Inquisition [indented]. Exeter 20 December 1429. [Bamfeld].
Jurors: William Holewey ; Richard Kelly ; Walter Rede ; John Alyn ; John Fursse ; Thomas Goreffen ; John Page ; Thomas Wrey ; Richard Rowe ; John Dynowe ; Richard Estecote ; and John Maynard .
Owing to the death of Otes and the minority of Elizabeth, the following came to the hands of the king and is still there. Doddiscombsleigh, ½ messuage, a moiety of a fifth of 1/3 manor, and the advowson of a moiety of a fifth of the church there. The tenement and advowson, annual value 5s., are held of the earl as a moiety of a fifth of ½ knight’s fee.
She died on 2 May 1427. Margaret wife of Thomas Wyse is her sister and next heir, and aged 26 and more.
C 139/43/6 mm. 1–2 [The inquisition for Cornwall, ordered in the writ, is not extant.]