Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 23, 1427-32 Mapping The Medieval Countryside, a collaboration between the Department of History, University of Winchester, and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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 Claire Noble (ed.), with introduction by Christine Carpenter, Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXIII: 6-10 Henry VI (1427-1432). Boydell & Brewer2004 2013-02-28T19:06:42.176Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
THOMAS SON OF FRANCIS DE COURT, KNIGHT
480 Writ devenerunt . † 29 March 1430. [ Frank ].
HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Odiham 8 November 1430. [Goweyn].
Jurors: Roger Chescon ; Thomas Stukele ; Thomas atte Rythe ; William Graunt ; Robert Taverner ; Robert atte Halle ; John atte Hoke ; John Graunt ; William atte Nasche ; Robert Wodele ; Robert atte Dene ; and Henry Serle .
Owing to the death of Francis and the minority of Thomas his son and heir, the manors of East Tytherley and Lockerley came to the hands of ‪ Henry V. By letters patent dated Westminster 2 February 1408 and shown to the jurors [CPR 1405–1408, pp. 405–6], Henry IV granted the manors to Francis de Court, knight, and to the heirs male of his body from Michaelmas then last, to hold of the king and his heirs by due service with all manner of franchises, liberties, knights’ fees and services, advowsons of churches, and all other things in perpetuity, with reversion wholly to the king and his heirs. By letters patent dated Westminster 6 October 1414 and shown to the jurors [CPR 1413–1416, p. 232], Henry V granted custody of the manors with knights’ fees and all other profits to Lewis John , to have from 7 December 1413 until the heir’s majority, with marriage of the heir. The manors of East Tytherley and Lockerley are held of the king in chief by knight service and their annual value together is 20 marks. No lands or tenements that came to the hands of ‪Henry V for the above reasons are held of any other but the king, and no lands or tenements, except the said manors, came to the hands of ‪ Henry V or to those of ‪ Henry VI for the above reasons.
He died on 20 May 1424. Henry brother of Thomas, son of Francis, is next heir by virtue of the grant and aged 18 and more.
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