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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: Amy Gaveston
Date: 10 Jun 1999 06:00:07 GMT


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>Could he be grandson of Robert and Joan?
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The Joan's inquisition [1329] and the de banco suits stated that they had three
sons, "all of whom died without leaving issue, and one daughter Alice, the wife
of Sir William Bernake, kt." All the male issue was caput. So no Robert and
Joan. Simon himself appeared in records for a time.

Farnham does not trace the line earlier than Thomas, or state where Thomas
might fit into an earlier family.

I theorize that by leaving the reversion of Breedon to our John de Driby, who
was son of Thomas, they were keeping one manor in the male issue of the family
[all the Driby estates would have passed with Alice into the Bernake family],
even if he were a distant cousin. It was almost all our John was left with.
Amy's lands would have reverted to the crown on her death.

Ironically, Breedon was earlier Tateshall land. But that does not keep one
from granting it out of the family during one's lifetime.

pcr

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