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A rich resource for our knowledge of medieval England.

Inquisitiones post mortem --- Probate records --- Great Britain --- Court records --- Genealogy --- Wills --- Post-mortem inquisitions --- Postmortem inquisitions --- Inheritance and succession --- Registers of births, etc. --- Land tenure --- History

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The Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) at the National Archives have been described as the single most important source for the study of landed society in later medieval England. Inquisitions were local enquiries into the lands held by people of some status, in order to discover whatever income and rights were due to the crown on their death, and provide details both of the lands themselves and whoever held them. This book explores in detail for the first time the potential of IPMs as sources for economic, social and political history over the long fifteenth century, the period covered by this 'Companion'. It looks at how they were made, how they were used, and their 'accuracy', and develops our understanding of a source that is too often taken for granted; it answers questions such as what they sought to do, how they were compiled, and how reliable they are, while also exploring how they can best be used for economic, demographic, place-name, estate and other kinds of study. Michael Hicks is Professor of Medieval History, University of Winchester.Contributors: Michael Hicks, Christine Carpenter, Kate Parkin, Christopher Dyer, Matthew Holford, Margaret Yates, L.R. Poos, J. Oeppen, R.M. Smith, Sean Cunningham, Claire Noble, Matthew Holford, Oliver Padel.

Inquisitiones post mortem. --- Post-mortem inquisitions --- Postmortem inquisitions --- Inheritance and succession --- Registers of births, etc. --- Great Britain --- History --- Inquisitiones post mortem --- Sources. --- 1399-1499 --- IPMs. --- Inquisitions Post Mortem. --- demographic study. --- economic history. --- estate study. --- landed society. --- medieval England. --- political history. --- social history.

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Fourth editor, Kate Parkin

Inquisitions post mortem are the single most important source for the history of medieval English landed society, and are indispensable to social, economic, and political historians of the later middle ages; compiled with the help of jurors from the area, they are a county-by-county record of a deceased individual's land-holdings and associated rights, where the individual held land directly of the crown. It is this explicit connection with land and locality - in economic, social, political, and topographical terms - that makes these documents of such comprehensive interest.
This volume covers the period between 1432 and 1437. It contains valuable information and detailed returns on the estates of the greater aristocracy such as Joan, Lady Abergavenny, John, earl of Arundel, Joan, duchess of York, John, duke of Norfolk, John, duke of Bedford, and Henry IV's former wife, Joan of Navarre, queen of England, as well as those of lesser landholders and the middling gentry of England and the marches of Wales. Standard information includes medieval descriptions of towns and villages and full manorial extents and the volume also provides comprehensive indexes of jurors, persons, places, and subjects.

ACADEMIC DIRECTOR AND GENERAL EDITOR: Professor Christine Carpenter, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

EDITORS
Dr M.L. Holford was a research associate at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge from 2003 to 2008.
Dr S.A. Mileson is college lecturer, St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Dr C.V. Noble was a research associate at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2008.
Dr Kate Parkin was a research associate at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2005.

Inquisitiones post mortem --- Probate records --- Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Court records --- Genealogy --- Wills --- Post-mortem inquisitions --- Postmortem inquisitions --- Inheritance and succession --- Registers of births, etc. --- History --- Great Britain --- Genealogy. --- aristocracy. --- greater aristocracy. --- inquisitions post mortem. --- jurors. --- land-holdings. --- lesser landholders. --- manorial extents. --- medieval England. --- middling gentry. --- persons. --- places. --- subjects. --- towns. --- villages.