A book on Mediaeval Lands and their Possessors: The Fee Tail

[R C]

"The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, 1176-1502" by
Joseph Biancalana, Cambridge University Press (2001). ISBN: 0 521 80646 1



I have only seen a partial preview of this work via sureproxy.com, as this
book mentions my ERNLE family (under the alternate spelling ERNLEY). It
looks to be a useful work in that it gives some very useful leads on the
original documents consulted by the author. Have any list members made use
of this book? If so, I should be interested in learning of their successes
with it and opinions of it.



Many thanks, and all the best in 2008,



Richard

[John P. Ravilious]

Dear Richard,

I have made limited use of Biancalana's work, but have found it
useful. There was a thread in May 2006, <Bertrada de Blancminster,
daughter of Amice de Audley>, in which I noted the following:

" Nicholas de Audley complained that his brother William
had brought mort d'ancestor to recover the reversion
following his grandfather Henry's grant of maritagium
to William de Albo Monasterio and Amice, Henry's
daughter. William and Amice had a daughter, Bertrede,
who had survived her parents and had died without issue.
.....
The holders of the land were Eleanor Lestrange and her
sisters, Joan the wife of William de Barentyn and
Maud the wife of William de Bracy. They were Bertrede's
collateral heirs. " [Joseph Biancalana, The Fee Tail
and the Common Recovery in Medieval England,
1176-1502 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001),
p. 36 [cites "Richardson and Sayles,
Rotuli parliamentorum, 20-1" and "2 IPM, No. 387 (1281)
(Bertrede a daughter of William de Blauminister)".]

While this did not make a major advance in anyone's ancestry, it
did identify another daughter of Sir Henry de Audley and Bertrada de
Mainwaring, by whom William de Blancminster had a daughter Bertrada
(or Bertraya). Previously, William was only known to have married Eve
fitz Warin (the widow of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth) by whom he had his
other daughters.

There is a limited preview via Googlebooks, using the following
link

http://books.google.com/books?id=KsSDOj ... CNuXWmwekA

If more extensive than your proxy version, this may be of some
limited use.

Cheers,

John



On Jan 3, 7:17�pm, "R C" <[email protected]> wrote:

"The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, 1176-1502" by
Joseph Biancalana, Cambridge University Press (2001). ISBN: 0 521 80646 1

I have only seen a partial preview of this work via sureproxy.com, as this
book mentions my ERNLE family (under the alternate spelling ERNLEY). It
looks to be a useful work in that it gives some very useful leads on the
original documents consulted by the author. Have any list members made use
of this book? If so, I should be interested in learning of their successes
with it and opinions of it.

Many thanks, and all the best in 2008,

Richard