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• Name: Katherine PAYNELL
• Sex: F
• Death: After 1395 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Sir Ralph PAYNELL Death: Abt Jul 1383
Mother:

• Katherine Death: After 1385

Family:
Marriage:

• Nicholas De CAUNTELO on 1 .^m1
  
• Nicholas De CAUNTELO Birth: Abt 1342 Death: Abt 21 Feb 1370/1 in Avignon

Marriage:

• Sir John AUNCELL on After 1371 .^m2
  
• Sir John AUNCELL Death: Before Jan 1380

Marriage:

• Sir Henry RETFORD on Abt 1385 .^m3
  
• Sir Henry RETFORD Birth: Abt 1354 Death: Abt 16 Jun 1409

Children:

1. Elizabeth RETFORD Death: 20 May 1471
2. Eleanor RETFORD
3. Sir Henry RETFORD Birth: Abt 1388 Death: 30 Dec 1460 in Wakefield

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

parents:

[Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916]

Sources for death Information

date:

living 1395 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

before 6 Jul 1375 [Ref: CP III p115]

Sources with Information about marriage to Nicholas De CAUNTELO

date:

before 1369 first marriage of Katherine [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916],

annulled:

petition for annulment 1369 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916],

names:

[Ref: CP III p115]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

names:

Sir Ralph PAYNELL (#252028) & Katherine [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p201]

Sources with Information about marriage to Sir John AUNCELL

date:

second marriage of Katherine [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916]

Sources with Information about marriage to Sir Henry RETFORD

date:

before Easter 1385 [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p201]

third marriage of Katherine, before 12 May 1385 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916],

child:

[Ref: CP II p357, Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916, Richardson MCA p283, Richardson MCA p413]

Research Notes:
obtained a life interest in the manors of Caythorpe and Carlton Paynell, with extensive appurtenances in Lincoln, Appleby Parva and Scawby [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p201]

fine dated 1385, which specifically states that Katherine, wife of Henry de Redford, Knt., was the widow of Ralph Paynell.
Reference: http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_143_145.shtml
CP 25/1/143/145, number 47.
County: Lincolnshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after Ascension, 8 Richard [II] [12 May 1385]. And afterwards two weeks from Holy Trinity in the same year [11 June 1385].
Parties: Henry de Redford', knight, and Katherine, his wife, querents, and John de Somerby, chaplain, and John Bate, chaplain, deforciants.
Property: The manors of Caysthorp' and Carleton' Paynell' and 2 messuages, 1 toft, 30 acres of land and 10 acres of meadow in Lincoln', Appulby, Parua Carleton' and Scalby, which Katherine, who was the wife of Ralph Paynell', knight, holds for life.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: John and John have granted for themselves and the heirs of John de Somerby that the manors and tenements - which Katherine, who was the wife of Ralph, held for life of the inheritance of John de Somerby in the aforesaid vills on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Katherine, who was the wife of Ralph, ought to revert to John and John and the heirs of John de Somerby - after the decease of Katherine, who was the wife of Ralph, shall remain to Henry and Katherine, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of Katherine, the wife of Henry.
For this: Henry and Katherine, his wife, have given them 500 pounds sterling. (followup message) Katherine wife of Henry de Retford was to inherit after the death of Katherine widow of Ralph Paynell; they were two different women [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916]

1396: contemporary lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas specifically states that Katherine, wife of Henry Ridford, was the daughter and heiress (not widow) of Ralph Paynell, Knt. Below is a brief abstract of this lawsuit:
In 1396 William Chesterfield, of Lincoln, and Christian his wife, daughter and heir of Robert Conestable, of London, whom John Chorley called to warranty, sued Henry de Ridford, Knt., and Katherine his wife, "daughter and heiress of Ralph Paynell, Knt." in a Lincolnshire plea. Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/541a, image 586f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no541a/aCP40no541afronts/IMG_0586.htm). [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916]

Sir Ralph Paynell, of Caythorpe, Lincolnshire definitely had a daughter, Katherine, who in 1369 petitioned the Court of York for an annulment of her marriage to Nicholas de Cantelowe on the grounds of impotence. The matter of the annulment is discussed in full in the following book: Pedersen, Marriage Disputes in Medieval England (2000): 30, 88, 145-147, which may be viewed at the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=ne7eBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA145
In the course of the legal proceedings, Katherine was evidently abducted by her husband, Nicholas de Cantelowe, and forced to swear not to proceed with the annulment. Katherine eventually made her escape. When the commissary general decided that the marriage should be annulled, Nicholas appealed to the Apostolic See. Nicholas de Cantelowe died 21 Feb. 1371 at Avignon, while prosecuting the case.
The matter of the annulment of the marriage of Katherine Paynell and Nicholas de Cantelowe is further discussed in the following books: Impotence and Virginity in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Court of York (2008): 21-22. and Bolton and Meek, Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages (2007). [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/23/2016-022916]



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