Medieval English genealogy: updates: 26 June 2022

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Contents:

• News
• New material
• New links
• Updated links

News

Two relevant books have recently been published by Boydell and Brewer:

• Lisa Jefferson, editor and translator, The Register of the Goldsmiths' Company: Deeds and documents, c. 1190 to c. 1666 (3 volumes, 2022)
  Original text and translations, with introductory sections, notes and indexes. [For further information see the publisher's website]
• Anne Curry and Rémy Ambühl, A Soldiers' Chronicle of the Hundred Years War: College of Arms Manuscript M 9 (2022)
  Original text and translation, with introductory essays, of a previously unpublished chronicle of the English wars in France from 1415 to 1429, written by two soldiers, Peter Basset and Christopher Hanson. [For further information see the publisher's website]

New material

The following item has been updated in the Corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage section:

• Verdun, volume 12, part 2, page 250 and note c.

Many thanks to Jim Poynor for kindly providing photographs of another medieval document, which is made available here with an English abstract:

• Surrender and quitclaim of Thomas Coddebene of lands in Wendover, late 13th century (Jim Poynor, this site)
  Photographs of document and abstract.

New links

• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • History:
    • Andrew W. Taubman, Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context (2009) (White Rose eTheses Online)
      University of York Ph. D. thesis covering with the Humber Region Lowlands during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
  • Public records: Miscellaneous public records:
    • List and Index of Warrants for Issues. 1399-1485. (reprint, 1964) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Public Record Office Lists and Indexes, Supplementary Series, Number 9, Volume 2. Indexes to National Archives, E 404/15-78. With an Appendix: Indentures of War, 1297-1527 (from E 404 and E 101).
    • M. Livingstone, editor, Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland. Volume 1. A.D. 1488-1529. (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
      Transcript, English and Latin.
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • O:
    • Peter Lawrence Watson, The Okeovers c.1100 - c.1300: A Gentry Family and their Cartulary (2017) (Oxford University Research Archive)
      D. Phil. Thesis.
  • V:
    • Mark Hagger, The de Verdun family in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1316: a study (1998) (St Andrews Research Repository)
      University of St Andrews Ph. D. Thesis.

Updated links

• A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
  • Manorial documents:
    • Manorial Documents Register (National Archives)
      Includes background information and a bibliography.
      Currently searchable online for Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire and Wales.
• Medieval source material on the Internet:
  • Modern biography and prosopography:
    • Avril M. Morris, St. Kyneburgha of Castor: from Mercian princess to Northumbrian queen (The CAMUS project, Internet Archive)
      Chapter 4 of "Five parishes: their people and places". Discussion of two seventh-century royal women called Kyneburgha (or Cyneburh), of Wessex and Mercia.
  • Manorial records:
    • Manorial Documents Register (National Archives)
      Currently searchable online for Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire and Wales.
• Medieval English families on the Internet:
  • M:
    • Queens-Haven Publications (Marilyn Roberts)
      Web pages giving information about Marilyn Roberts's recent books, including The Mowbray Legacy (2004, revised edition 2012), which examines the history of the Mowbrays from the Conquest to 1481, and a biography, Anne Mowbray � The High and Excellent Princess (2013).