Fulk Baynard

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The mother of his daughter Isabel was named Katherine. As a widow she continued to live at Merton.^[1]

Blomefield believed that in 1327, Fulk still held the 8 and a half knights' fees of the family under Robert fitz Walter.

Fulk left three daughters his coheirs; Isabell, Emme, and Maud; Isabell married Sir Thomas de Grey, Knt. and had Merton, Bunwelt, &c. for her share, in whose family it hath continued ever since.

In 2 Edward III, 1328/29, there was an inquisition post mortem for Robert fitz Walter which mentions that in Norfolk:

Hadeston, Merton, Bonewelle, Carleton, Tibenham, Tomeston, Threkeston and Threston. Eight and half fees were also held of the said Robert, which Fulk Banyard held; of which [fees] the said Robert did not die seised, because they came into the hands of Sir Robert son of Walter, his father whilst the said Sir Robert the father lived, by reason of the minority of the heir of the said Fulk, and the wardship of the said heir, with all the profits of the aforesaid fees, he bequeathed and assigned in his will for discharging his debts and carrying out his will, until the lawful age of the heir of the said Fulk.

It appears that if there was a male heir he did not live to inherit.

Sources

1. ↑ Crabbe, "Report on the Muniments at Merton Hall, Norfolk, Part II." The Norfolk antiquarian miscellany, vol.3, Pt.1, pp.13-17.

• Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Wayland: Merton', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 298-312. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp298-312 [accessed 7 November 2018].
• J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 12', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III (London, 1909), pp. 126-129. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol7/pp126-129 [accessed 7 November 2018].