Agnes de Meyners
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Richard de Meyners.
This relationship is recorded in the fine below.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: William de Benefeld.
This relationship is recorded in the fine below.
Children:
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Evidence
Agnes had the gift from her father of land in Orleswick, Sussex and a tenement in Marham, Norfolk in frank marriage. In 1247, she granted this to her sister Isabel and Isabel’s husband Philip. (Farrer 3:346).
Sussex Fines (v. 1, no 430):
Inter Agnetem que fuit uxor Willi. de Benefeld pet' et Phm. de Neubaud et Isab. ux' ejus' ten':—De med' quinquaginta acrarum terre in Hangleton quam Agnes clamabat esse racionabilem partem suam que eam contingebat de hereditate que fuit Radi. de Meyners fratris Agnetis et Isab. cujus heredes ipse sunt; unde placitum fuit inter eos: —Agnes concessit Pho. et Isab. omnes terras et tenementa que ipsa Agnes tenuit in Ordlaweswyk de predicta hereditate die quo hec concordia facta fuit simul cum toto tenemento quod ipsa habuit de dono Rici. de Meyners patris ipsius Agnetis in Marham in comitatu Norfolk in liberum maritagium, tenenda de capitalibus dominis &c:— Pro hoc fine Phs. et Isab. recognoverunt predictam med' quinquaginta acrarum simul cum omnibus aliis terris et tenementis que ipsi tenuerunt in Hangleton die quo hec concordia facta fuit sine ullo retinemento esse racionabilem partem Agnetis, tenenda de capitalibus dominis &c: Et Agnes Phs. et Isab. concesserunt pro se et hbs. Agnetis et Isab. quod omnes terre et tenementa que Leticia que fuit uxor Radi. tenuit in dotem in Fincham in comitatu Norfolc' de hereditate predicti Radi. die quo hec concordia facta fuit simul cum illo mesuagio quod Agnes tenuit in Ordlaueswyk post decessum Leticie dividentur inter Agnetem Phm. et Isab et heredes Agnetis et Isab. salvo Pho. et Isab et hbs. Isab. capitale mesuagio ejusdem dotis in Fincham in comitatu Norf'.
31° Henry III. Westm' A die Sci. Johis. Bapte in xv. dies.
References
Farrer, William Honors and Knights’ Fees volume 3 (1925).
“Parishes: Twineham” and “Parishes: Piddinghoe” in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes (Victoria County History, 1980).