More Matertera as Paternal Aunt: Bedet vs. Bedet

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Douglas Richardson

More Matertera as Paternal Aunt: Bedet vs. Bedet

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson » 13 okt 2005 17:46:32

Dear Newsgroup ~

Here is another example of "matertera" found in a medieval English
record dated c.1200. The defendant in this case, William Bedet, is
clearly stated to be the nephew of a woman named Ermengarde, he being
the son of her eldest brother. Presumably the plaintiff, Robert Bedet,
who is likewise a nephew to Ermengarde, was the son of another brother
of Ermengarde. Even so, in the English translation which is provided,
the editor, Doris Stenton, has translated the Latin word "matertera" to
mean maternal aunt, even though paternal aunt in this situation is
clearly the correct reading.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

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"190. Assisa de morte antecessoris inter Robertum Bedet petentem de
morte Emegarde [sic] matertere sue et Willelmum Bedet tenentem . de 2
bouatis terre c.p. in Gressebi [Grasby] remanet . quia ipse Willelmus
dixit quod ipse est filius primogeniti fratris . et Robertus hoc non
negauit . Robertus perquerat breue de recto si uolerit . quia Willelmus
dicit quod ipse Ermegarda nunquam tenuit de patre suo.

Robert has brought an assize of mort d'ancestor against William as the
heir of his maternal aunt Ermengard. The assise stands over because
Robert cannot deny that William is the son of Ermengard's eldest
brother. Robert is allowed to seek a writ of right if he wishes to
test the truth of William's assertion that Ermengard never held of his
(William's) father. If she held of William's father, William could not
inherit the land itself but only the lordship over it, since it is a
general principle of the law of the realm that, no one can be at once,
lord and heir of the same tenement (Glanville, book vii, chapter i)."
[Reference: Doris M. Stenton ed., The Earliest Lincolnshire Assize
Rolls, A.D. 1202-1209 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 22) (1926): 30].

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