Medieval English genealogy: updates: 25 June 2024

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Contents:

• New material
• New links
• Updated links

New material

A note, "Who did 'Lambert Simnel' claim to be?", has been added, summarising the contemporary and nearly contemporary evidence about the claimed identity of the pretender of 1487. This was written in response to the recent book by Philippa Langley and collaborators, which argues that the pretender claimed to be - and really was - King Edward V, rather than Edward, Earl of Warwick, as conventionally believed.

The following items have been added in the Corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage section:

• Brewose, Breouse, or Brewes, volume 2, pages 309 and 310.
• Lincoln, volume 7, page 689.

I am grateful to Jim Poynor for sending me photographs of another medieval document:

• Grant by Geoffrey Michel of land in Gestingthorpe [Essex], 1375

New links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • County and local history:
    • Robin J. Burls, Society, economy and lordship in Devon in the age of the first two Courtenay earls, c. 1297-1377 (2002) (Oxford University)
      D. Phil. thesis.
  • Public records: Feet of fines:
    • H. E. Salter, transcriber, The Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire, 1195-1291. (1930) (Oxfordshire Record Society)
      Oxfordshire Record Series, volume 12. Mainly English abstracts (Latin transcripts for the reign of John and some other fines); with a general index. Includes Divers, Unknown and Various Counties.
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • Sydney Armitage-Smith, John of Gaunt's Register. Volume 1. (1911) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Camden Third Series, volume 20. Transcripts in French. First part of a register of the Duchy of Lancaster covering 1371-1375, continued in volume 2.
    • Sydney Armitage-Smith, John of Gaunt's Register. Volume 2. (1911) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Camden Third Series, volume 21. Transcripts in French. Second part of a register of the Duchy of Lancaster covering 1371-1375, continuing from volume 1.
  • Charters:
    • Grant by Geoffrey Michel of land in Gestingthorpe [Essex], 1375 (Jim Poynor, this site)
      Photographs of document and seal, with an abstract.
  • Church records and religious houses:
    • David M. Smith, York Clergy Ordinations 1475-1500 (2017) (Borthwick Institute for Archives)
      Abstracts of entries from the registers of the archbishops of York, with indexes of persons and places.
  • Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
    • Joseph Foster, The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the Years 1584/5 ... The subsequent Visitation made in 1612 ... with several additional pedigrees [etc] (1875) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • E:
    • Ernle Family History (Richard Carruthers-Żurowski, Wiki for the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website)
      In progress, notes on the Ernle family, medieval and later.
  • S:
    • Chris Phillips, Who did 'Lambert Simnel' claim to be? (this site)
      Summary of the contemporary and nearly contemporary evidence about the claimed identity of the pretender of 1487, written in response to the recent book by Philippa Langley and collaborators, which argues that the pretender claimed to be - and really was - King Edward V, rather than Edward, Earl of Warwick, as conventionally believed.

Updated links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Probate records:
    • Leland L. Duncan/John Blythe Dobson, Index to Kentish Administrations, 1559-1649 (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Alphabetically arranged list of the abstracts by Leland L. Duncan originally printed in Archaeologia Cantiana.