‹ E-CIPM 25-392: JOAN, QUEEN OF ENGLAND ›

Holdings

She held the manor of Hallaton in demesne as of free tenement by grant of ‪ Henry IV by letters patent [CPR 1405–1408, p. 46], shown to the jurors. The grant, as described in the letters patent, was of all the castles, manors, lordships, vills, lands, tenements, and other possessions that were of Thomas, late Lord Bardolf . Other letters patent of the same king [CPR 1408–13, pp. 95–6], shown to the jurors, recited the following: – how his beloved and faithful William Clifford, chevalier , and Anne his wife, and William Phelip and Joan his wife, daughters of Thomas, showed the king how Henry [II], late king of England, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and count of Anjou , progenitor of ‪ Henry IV granted, by letters patent, to Thomas Bardolf and his heirs of the body of Rose, daughter of Ralph Hauselyn, the same manor of Hallaton, among other things, described as all the land that was of the inheritance of Ralph Hauselyn , grandfather of Rose, viz., land that had escheated to the king and remained to him, given by judgement of his court. Thomas Bardolf took Rose as his wife, and was thus seised in demesne as of fee and by right, by form of the said grant at a time of peace for the late king Henry, progenitor, and took the esplees [profits]; – how right descended from Thomas Bardolf to a certain Doun as his son and heir of the body of Rose; from Doun to William his son and heir; from William to William as son and heir of William son of Doun; from William son of William to Hugh son and heir of William son of William; from Hugh to Thomas his son and heir; from Thomas, right descended to William son of Hugh as brother and heir of Thomas, because Thomas died without heir of his body; from William brother of Thomas to Thomas son and heir of William; from Thomas to John his son and heir; from John to William his son and heir; and from William to Thomas, late Lord Bardolf, son and heir of William. Thomas, late Lord Bardolf, was seised of the manor in demesne as of fee and by right, and he continued his possession of the manor until it was seized into the hand of ‪ Henry IV by judgement against him in parliament begun at Westminster in 7 ‪Henry VI, and finished there in 8 ‪ Henry VI.ⁿ³³¹ Right in the manor then descended from Thomas, late Lord Bardolf, to Anne and Joan as his daughters and heirs; – and how, by letters patent on 10 August 1405 [CPR 1405–1408, p. 46], ‪ Henry IV granted the manor to the late queen, described as his most beloved consort Joan, queen of England, to hold for life in part deduction of 10 000 marks annuity, lately granted to her as part of her dower by ‪ Henry IV , with knights’ fees and advowsons of churches and all other ecclesiastical benefices whatsoever. Moved by conscience and piety and consideration of the right of title to the manor, ‪ Henry IV therefore granted that the manor that was to revert to the king and his heirs after the death of the queen, should instead remain to William Clifford and Anne, and William Phelip and Joan, to hold to them and the heirs of the bodies of Anne and Joan, as fully and in the same way as held by Thomas, Lord Bardolf, before the judgement against him, as if the judgement and the grant to the queen had never happened, provided that, if William and Anne, and William and Joan should die without heirs of the bodies of Anne and Joan, the manor should revert to ‪ Henry IV and his heirs. The grant was thus because the manor, among other things, was seized into the hand of ‪ Henry IV by force of the judgement and granted by him to the late queen in form aforesaid. Moreover, because the manor, as granted to Thomas Bardolf by ‪ Henry II , was described as all the lands that were of the inheritance of Ralph Hauseleyn , and not described especially as the manor of Hallaton in Leicestershire, as described above, and because the grant was made before the time of memory or before that time was ended by the ancestors of Anne and Joan, and before the statute de donis conditionalibus was passed, so the grant could not be tried at common law, nor could it be deduced by trying an inquisition, notwithstanding any cause, opinion or ambiguity as advised by the justices of ‪ Henry IV and his heirs in this regard, as more fully contained in the letters patent of ‪ Henry IV . William Clifford died, and Anne took Reynold Cobham, knight, as her husband. The queen afterwards died seised of the manor, with remainder to Anne, William Phelip, and Joan.