Joan de Fourneaux

Primary Sources

CP 25/1/136/85, number 56.
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County: Lincolnshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 10 Edward II [12 June 1317].
Parties: John, son of Fulk de Orreby, and Joan, his wife, querents, by Walter de Waynflet, put in the place of Joan by the lord king's writ, and John, son of Peter de Burton', deforciant.
Property: The manor of Dalby.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: John, son of Fulk, has acknowledged the manor to be the right of John, son of Peter, as that which the same John has of the gift of John, son of Fulk.
For this: John, son of Peter, has granted to John, son of Fulk, and Joan the manor and has rendered it to them in the court, to hold to John, son of Fulk, and Joan and the heirs of their bodies, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to Philip, son of the same John, son of Fulk, and the heirs of his body and (2) to the right heirs of John, son of Fulk.
Source: Abstracts of Feet of Fines

55. JOHN SON OF FULK DE ORREBY.
Writ of plenius certiorari, on the complaint of Joan late the wife of the said John, that the escheator had taken into the king’s hand the manor of Dalby of which she was enfeoffed jointly with her said husband, 14 April, 3 Edward III. LINCOLN. Inq. Friday after the Invention of Holy Cross, 3 Edward III.
Dalby. The said Joan was jointly enfeoffed with the said John of the manor, by fine levied in the king’s court, in 10 Edward II, of the gift of John son of Peter de Burtone, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies of the earl of Lancaster as of the fee of earl of Ferrers, by service of a third part of a knight’s fee, and she continued her seisin for some time after the said John’s death, until the said manor was taken into the king’s hand by the sub-escheator ex officio as he said.
C. Edw. III. File 20. (2.)

Source: J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 20', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III (London, 1909), pp. 196-199. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol7/pp196-199 [accessed 22 September 2017].

May 25. 1329 Dover.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Dalby, and to restore any issues received thence to Joan, late the wife of John son of Fulk de Orreby, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Joan was enfeoffed thereof jointly with the said John by fine levied in the late king's court, in the 10th year of his reign, before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, of the gift of John son of Peter de Burton, to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that she continued her seisin thereof jointly with her husband from the time of the levying of the fine aforesaid until her husband's death, and after his death until Richard de Shefeld, sub-escheator in co. Lincoln, took the manor into the king's hand, by reason of the death of her husband, who held in chief, and that it is in the king's hands for this reason solely, and that it is held of the earl of Lancaster.

Source: 'Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1329', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1896), pp. 454-466. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol1/pp454-466 [accessed 22 September 2017].

Joan de Forneaux

• Birth: 1297 in Carlton in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, England 3
• Death: SEP 1349 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, North Riding, England 4 3
• Father: Richard DE FOURNEUX b: 1256 in Carlton in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, England
• Mother: Sibil OF NOTTINGHAM b: ABT 1270 in Botharnsall, Nottinghamshire, England

Marriage

1. John DE ORREBY b: 1258 in Hatherton, Cheshire, England Married: 1316
2. Henry FITZHENRY of Ravensworth b: 1297 in Ravensworth, Yorlshire, North Riding, England Married: MAR 1330

Children with 1st husband

1. Philip de Orresby

Children with 2nd husband

1. Hugh FITZHENRY b: 1331 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, North Riding, England
2. Joan FITZHUGH b: 1333 in Ravensworth, Yorlshire, North Riding, England
3. Henry FitzHugh LORD FITZHUGH b: 1337 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England

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