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disinherited

Legg inn av Gjest » 27 apr 2005 18:33:13

I stumbled across my first "disinherited" reference yesterday. It was
not a member of the family I am investigating, but of a family that
they (or a namesake family) intermarried with. The person's place on
the family tree in the Visitation is there in its proper position, but
the name is omitted with the explanation that he was disinherited. He
seems to have been the oldest son. I found it intriguing.

In the family I am investigating, one son was threatened with
disinheritance. The Will (in Latin) says that he is the heir on the
condition that he behaves himself properly and marries well (in the
eyes of the executors). (He was not yet quite of age.) Strangely, the
testator did not provide an alternative heir. That is to say, if he
was saying that his son got the estate if he behaved well, this is a
threat that he will not get the estate if he doesn't behave well -- so,
the testator should have said who got the estate if the heir failed to
accommodate the executors, but he didn't.

I am speculating that the behave well and marry well criteria are not
separate, as one would think upon reading the Will the first time.
Rather, I suspect that it means to behave well BY THE ACT OF marrying
well -- in other words, that the patriarch was afraid he would not
marry well. This hints that the heir eventual had become enamored of
someone of lower status and the patriarch had forbidden their marriage
and warned the executors.

Several years later, the heir married very well indeed -- to one of the
Queen's ladies in waiting. She didn't have any property (being a
foreigner), but a nice pension from the King and more importantly tied
him into the royal family. (Which backfired, since Richard II was
overthrown soon after.)

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