E-CIPM 22-213: EDMUND EARL

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EDMUND EARL OF STAFFORD

Writ Head

213 Writ melius inquirendo. ‡ 2 June 1423. [Wymbyssh]

Regarding the estate he had in specified lands, and the identity of his heir [CIPM XVIII, no. 829; William Walshale, escheator].

Inquisition Head

STAFFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Stafford. 29 June 1423. [Cotes]

Jurors

Jurors: John More ; and John Bethom , of Penkridge ; John Perton ; John Egynton of Rodbaston ; Henry Coton of Mitton ; Nicholas Flaxhale ; Richard Banastre ; William More and Richard Weston , of Gnosall ; John Wotton of Cowley ; Robert Bailly of Beffcote ; and Thomas Fraunceys of Church or Wood Eaton.

Holdings

He died seised in his demesne as of fee of the following which descended after the death of Ralph de Basset to Edmund as his kinsman and heir, Ralph having died seised in his demesne as of fee, as specified in the writ.

Coton, a toft with a carucate of land.
Tamworth, 6 marks rent.
Lichfield, a messuage.
Pattingham, a messuage.
Walsall, an enclosed plot of land, wood and pasture, called ‘Cleyhung’; a carucate of land between this vill and its park called ‘les Wastes’; and a plot of land called ‘le Conynger’.
Drayton Bassett, the advowson of a chantry in the church of five chaplains to celebrate mass for the souls of Ralph de Basset and his heirs, as specified in the writ.

Humphrey earl of Stafford is his son and next heir, aged 20 years and more on 15 August last.

TNA reference

C 139/8/66 mm.1–2

Writ Head

214 Writ que plura. ‡ 20 October 1423. [Wymbyssh]

Regarding lands held of ‪ Henry IV [CIPM XVIII, no. 853].

Inquisition Head

OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Deddington. 28 October 1423. [Wachet]

Jurors

Jurors: Richard Galeton ; Richard Watore ; John Wyghthill ; John Draper ; John Verdon ; John Megore ; John Goldewell ; John Archer ; Richard Dene ; John Brooke ; John Colles ; and Thomas Russell .

Holdings

He held in his demesne as of fee more lands and tenements than were specified in the inquisition returned after his death to ‪ Henry IV ’s Chancery, namely a burgage in Oxford called ‘Wolston halle’ [later Dunstan Hall], annual value 3s. 4d., of the bailiffs and burgesses of the vill, service unknown.

Heir as in 213, except that he was aged 21 years and more.

TNA reference

C 139/8/66 mm.3–4

Holdings

Holdings

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
Coton
Total: -
Tamworth
Total: -
Lichfield
Total: -
Pattingham
Total: -
Walsall
Total: -
Drayton Bassett
Total: -

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No holding extent information available.

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