C.P. Addition: Divorce of Margaret Beaufort and John de la P

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C.P. Addition: Divorce of Margaret Beaufort and John de la P

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson royala » 05 sep 2005 04:59:03

Dear Newsgroup ~

Recently I had the opportunity of going through the interesting work,
John Benet's Chronicle for the years 1400 to 1462. This material was
published in Camden Miscellany, Vol. XXIV (Camden 4th ser. 9) (1972),
pp. 151-233, and was edited by G.L. Harriss and M.A. Harriss.

The editors state that an examination of the material transcribed by
Benet shows that the first sections of his work were written by 1461,
while the chronicle which ends in 1462, was probably transcribed some
years before 1471. A more precise date is difficult to fix.

Under the year, 1452[/53], the chronicle records the divorce of
Margaret Beaufort (future mother of King Henry VII of England) and John
de la Pole:

pg. 209: "Et post Purificacionem habuerunt clerici convocacionem London
(Footnote 178) in qua concesse sunt regi due decime, et circa idem
tempus equitavit rex et cum eo justiciarii cum heyr determiner in
Estsexiam et in Suschfolchiam et Norfolchiam (Footnote 179). Et fecit
rex divorcium (Footnote 180) fieri inter Johannem filium ducis
Suffolchie et filiam et heredum ducis Somersecie pro causa [ ] Et
vj die Marcii incepit parliamentum apud Redynge in qua concessum est
regi una quintadecima et viginta milia hominum bellatorum cum arcubus."

The editors add the following information in the footnotes:

178. The convocation met on 7 February 1453.

179. This commission of oyer and terminer for East Anglia was issued on
8 January 1453 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1452-1461, pg. 60).

180. The divorce of John de la Pole and Margaret Beaufort at about this
time has been assume from evidence on the patent roll. See Complete
Peerage, xii, pt. 1, pg. 450; Cal. Patent Rolls, 1452-1461, pg. 78.
The marriage had taken place between 28 January and 7 February 1450
when, in their attack on the duke of Suffolk, the Commons complained
that "sith the tyme of his areste, he hath doo the seid Margarete to be
maried to his said sone." (Rot. Parl., v, pg. 177). Both were beneath
the age of 14 and, since they were within the prohibited degrees, a
papal dispensation was obtained in August 1450 (Cal. Papal Letters, x,
pg. 472).

Complete Peerage, 14 (1998): 602 (sub Suffolk) states that the divorce
took place before 6 March 1452/3, citing Benet, pg. 209, Footnote 180
above as its source. Actually, it would be more specific to say that
the divorce took place between 7 Feb. 1452/3 and 6 March 1452/3, citing
Benet. There is no equivalent mention of Benet's Chronicle in the
Richmond account in C.P. 14 (1998): 545. Margaret Beaufort's 2nd
husband, Edmund Tudor, was Earl of Richmond.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

Website: http://www.royalancestry.net

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