History
Yorkshire Inquisitions
1409
Thomasia,* who was wife of William Furnyvall, CHIVALER.
Inquisitions post mortem, Chancery, Hen. IV
Writ to the Escheator, dated at Westminster, 4 Aug., 10 Hen. IV. 1409.
Inquisition taken at Roderham, 26 Aug.1409, before Thomas de Santon, Escheator, by the oath of John Maple, John Whistan, John Byrlay, John West, Ralph Povay, Simon Mersburgh, William Wollehous, John Povay, John Coteler, and John Shemyld.
The said Thomasia held in dower, of the inheritance of Maud, daughter of Joan, daughter of the same William and Thomasia, cousin and heir of the said William, and now wife of John Talbot, one-third of the manor and lordship of Sheffield, with the advowson of the church of Handsworth, of the King in chief, as of his crown, by the service of homage only. This third part and the advowson are worth yearly £22 6s. 8d. clear.
Thomiasia died on the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin last. The said Maud is her heir, aged 17 years and more.
Note:* Thomasia, or Thomasine, daughter of Thomas Dagworth, Lord Dagworth
of Norfolk, and widow of William, 4th Lord Furnival of Sheffield.
Their only daughter, Joan, Baroness Furnival, married Thomas Neville,
brother of Ralph, 1st Earl of Westmoreland.
They, again, had an only
daughter, Maud, Baroness Furnival, who married John Talbot, who was summoned, 1409-1421, as Lord Furnivall or Talbot of
Hallamshire, afterwards created Earl of Shrewsbury.
Refer also to Yorkshire Inquisitions, 1407
Source: Yorkshire Inquisitions
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