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Amicia de Arden was the last surviving heiress of the Ardens of Kingsbury, Osbert I de Arden, and Osbert II de Arden. Her inheritance passed to her son, John de Bracebridge, and then later to his younger brother William de Bracebridge. Her husband was Peter de Bracebridge.[1][2][3]
Two legal records recorded in 1208 and 1214 prove definitively that the three coheiresses of the Arden family in Kingsbury were daughters of Osbert II de Arden.[4] The three sisters held rights in Kingsbury in this sequence:
Also concerning the descent given in the legal case, the historians David Crouch and Ann Williams have argued that, in the words of Williams, Osbert I de Arden was the "the grandson, not the son of Thorkell; his father was Siward of Arden and his mother was probably Siward's wife Cecilia (PRO E13/76 m 71r)."[5] The document they cite is a charter by Hugh de Arden, son of Siward, which names as Osbert de Arden his elder brother. Given the importance of elder brothers, who else could this Osbert be than the one who held Kingsbury?
The historian Peter Coss understood the three sisters to be daughters of Osbert I, not granddaughters, but he was apparently unaware of the 1214 legal case, and other similar evidence mentioned above.[6]
Even more confusing, the 17th century antiquarian Dugdale placed the three sisters in various different relationships, and in different generations.[7]
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