Medieval Genealogy Resources

Medieval Sources

• • Regnal Years - A Medieval Calendar

• Inquisitions Post Mortem

• Patent Rolls

• Close Rolls

• Fine Rolls

• Feet of Fines

• Bishops Registers 

• Land Records

  •  Book of Fees   Feudal Aids   Red Book   Plea Rolls

  • Ancient Deeds  

Research and Search Sites

• Google Books

• BYU Books Search

  • FamilySearch  

• British History Online

  • A2A: National Archives - Access to Archives  

  • History of Parliament Online 

  • Genealogics - by Leo van de Pas

  • Notes on Medieval Genealogy - by Chris Phillips

  • Medieval Lands - by Charles Crawley

  • Henry Project - by Stewart Baldwin

  •   Index     Ancestor Table 

Family Articles

Heraldry

• Roll of Arms of some families in my ancestry

• Commons:WikiProject Heraldry

• Coats of Arms of England and France  

• Some Feudal Coats of Arms, by Foster

•   Archive.org copy 

• Brian Timms Heraldry 

• More Links and Resources

County Resources

• Devon and Cornwall

• Gloucester

  • Shropshire 

• Somerset

Selected and commonly used

Pedigree, Lineage and Family History Books

• • Complete Peerage  

  • Visitations by County      Harleian Society Visitation Series  

  • Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica  

  • History of Parliament, 1439-1509 

  • Plantagenet Ancestry (Richardson 2004) Google Preview 

  • Magna Carta Ancestry (Richardson 2005) Google Preview

  • Ancestral Roots (Weis 8th ed. 2004) Google Preview  

  • Medieval Welsh Ancestors (Boyer 2004) BYU Books  

  • Prosopography (Keats-Rohan 1999) Google Preview  

Family Histories - full references 

• • Fortescue 

  • Chichester 

  • Danvers  Danvers 

Articles

• • NEHGR