Emmeline (Dawney) Courtenay (1326 - 1371)

Born 1326 in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 20 Mar 1371 at about age 45 in Haccombe, Devon, England

Biography

Emmeline Dawney was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Emeline d'Auney (Auney LNAB, Weis has Dawney) was the dau. of Sir John D'Auney and Sybil Treverbin.^[1]

Inquisitions Post Mortem

Emmeline late the wife of Edward de Courtenay, knight

Writ, 1 April, 45 Edward III. [1371] ^[2]

SOMERSET. Inq. (indented) taken at Yevele, 28 June, 45 Edward III.

She died on 20 March last. Edward her son, aged 14 years and more, is her next heir.

DEVON. Inq. taken at Exeter, Tuesday after Trinity, 45 Edward III.

She died on Friday in the first week of Lent, 45 Edward III. Heir as above.

Writ, 12 November, 45 Edward III.

CORNWALL. Inq. made at St. Germans, 18 February, 46 Edward III.

She died on Friday after St. Peter in Cathedra, 45 Edward III. Heir as above, who will be 15 years of age at the Invention of the Holy Cross next.

Writ of certiorari to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer as to the relief paid by Edward de Courtenay and Emma his wife, daughter and heir of John Dauney, knight, in respect of the manor of Modeford Terry, co. Somerset. … December, 45 Edward III.

Return: It is found in the Memoranda of 30 Edward III, in the fines of Easter term, that the said Edward and Emma were charged with 50s. for their relief of the said manor, which John Dauney held on the day of his death of the king in chief by knight’s service, and for which Edward did fealty to the king on 12 April, 22 Edward III. They acknowledged that they held it of the king in chief, as John had held it, by service of half a knight’s fee; and they agreed that, if in future it should be found that the manor was held by another or a greater service, they should be charged with a greater sum for relief. By the Memoranda Roll, of 46 Edward III, Michaelmas, Recorda.

Notes

Note N00374Ancestor Nicholas DAWNEY bought Stancombe from Gilbert CRISPIN25 Nov 1312

Note: ref: Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) (28 Feb 10) -

Emmeline Dawney, daughter of Sir John Dawney of Madfordferry.

Sources

1. ↑ Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700, [p. 9]
2. ↑ A. E. Stamp, J. B. W. Chapman, M. C. B. Dawes and D. B. Wardle. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 220," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 13, Edward III, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954), 71-82. British History Online, accessed May 24, 2017, [1].

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013) Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol II, page 331, Emeline Dauney.