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Title: Widows, heirs, and heiresses in the late Twelfth Century : the Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis
Related: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies Vol. 308
Publisher: Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Walmsley, John
Description: This work is a new critical edition and translation of the late-twelfth-century Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards on estates held directly of the Crown in 1185. As such they were a precursor to the veredicta of the general eyre from the 1230s on, and of the extents attached to the Inquisitions Post Mortem from the 1240s. The implications for royal power and control and the machinery which brought them into being no doubt also led to the concerns expressed about inheritance and the treatment of widows and wards in the early clauses Magna Carta in 1215. Translation of this material in toto makes it an invaluable source book for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the economy and society of medieval England, and also for those interested in the history of women.
Subject Keyword: Great Britain -- History -- Henry II, 1154-1189
Subject Keyword: Great Britain -- Genealogy
Resource Type: book
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History

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