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AUMALE and MERIET

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Richard Borthwick

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Sep 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/17/00
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I did some IPM trawling and also discovered VCH Somerset vol.4. (1978)
pp.53-54 which deals with the manor of Merriott. The descent of the fee
would appear to go thus:

Harding fitz Eadnoth, of Meriet, Soms
|
Nicholas, son and heir, succ., and d.1166/1171
|
N fitz Nicholas, d.v.p.
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Henry de Meriet, succ. his grandfather, and d.<1192
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Nicholas de Meriet, received his father's lands in 1212, and d in or before
1229
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Hugh de Meriet, succ. in 1229, and d.< 8 Apr 1236
|
Nicholas de Meriet succ., and d.about 1258
|
John (I) de Meriet succ., and d.< 20 Mar 1285
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John (II) de Meriet succ., and d.1308
____________|____________________________________________________________
John (III de Meriet succ. his George de Meriet succ. his brother, m.
father and d.1322 s.p. Isabel (d.29 Jun 1370), and d.5 Nov 1328
_________________________________|________________________
William Daumarle m (Helen) de Meriet John (IV) de Meriet, succ.,
d.< 8 Feb 1363 b. very shortly before his
father's |
death in 1328 & d.1369 m Elizabeth
| de Beauchamp
_________________|________ |
Margaret Elizabeth John (V) de Meriet, succ., and
b. about 1344 b. about 1346 d. 1391
(coheirs of their bro., William) |
Elizabeth de Meriet d.1394/95 s.p.,
m or betrothed to Urry Seymour

The VCH article has Margaret Daumarle marrying Stafford and Elizabeth, her
sister marrying Bonville (maybe a careless use of 'respectively'). I have
checked the IPMs cited and found others which clinch the succession through
George. George had a John as his heir and Isabel as George's wife. Isabel's
IPM says she was George's wife and her heir was John de Meriet Kt. VCH
refers to an article in Proc[eedings] [of the] Som[erset] Arch[eological]
Soc[iety] (since it is cited in the abbreviated form indicated I assume the
expansion suggested is the full title) 28:100-167. If the reference is to
one article then it is a hefty effort. I shall try to locate this.

I have also gained some information on the Daumarle family (and in
particular the IPM of William father of Margaret and Elizabeth) but some of
the material is confusing. One branch (if it is a branch) ends with a
battery of coheirs, stemming from the daughters of William D (d.1256) son
of Robert D.

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