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The Bluets 120 Under the law at the time land was inherited by primogeniture that is by the eldest male. The advantage of this system is that the estates are not diluted and broken up as they are under the alternative of inheritances being distributed among all the children. Primogeniture is fine until there is no male heir from the first marriage. In that case, before about 1130 an inheritance descended only through one daughter or other female heir; after that it was to be divided equally between all valid female heirs. 524 Hence when old lady Bluet 525 died the estates would be divided between Margaret and Eleanor. Eleanor died on 28 th October 1348 526 Margaret had been given in marriage to William de Cusaunce, nephew of William de Cusaunce who had acquired the marriage rights in 1323 (see above), and they had a son Peter. Although it has been suggested that Margaret and William inherited after Eleanor‘s death, Boon 527 states that both Margaret and William died before Eleanor. This is probably correct, it is supported by the fact that, in Eleanor‘s inquisition, it is Eleanor junior and Peter de Cusaunce who are given as the heirs 528 . This is clear in all the county inquisitions: in that from Southampton 529 (taken at Basingstoke on 3 rd December 524 Kenny, G (1997) The Heiress as Fortune-Maker and Widow in Thirteenth- Century Anglo-Norman Ireland: Christiana de Marisco, Matilda de Lacy and the de Genevre brothers PaGes, Arts Postgraduate Research in Progress Faculty of Arts, University College Dublin, Volume 4, 1997 @ http://www.ucd.ie/pages/97/kenny.html 525 Boon, GC (1989) St. Mary the Virgin, Silchester p9 526 Cal IPM vol IX Edw III (1916) no 104 pp91-93 Eleanor, late the wife of John Bluet. Inquisition for Wiltshire, taken at Hilmarton 1 December 22 Edw III 527 Boon, GC (1989) ibid 528 Cal IPM vol IX Edw III (1916) ibid 529 Cal IPM vol IX Edw III (1916) ibid Eleanor the wife of Edmund Baynard aged 30 years and more and Peter, son of William de Cusaunce and Margaret his wife sister of the said Eleanor who is aged 19¾ years are the heirs of the said John Bluet
The Bluets 121 1348) from Essex 530 (taken at Rayleigh on 23 rd January 1249) and from Wiltshire 531 (taken at Hilmarton on 1 st December 1248) Margaret is not an heir as she surely would have been were she alive. It is not known if Eleanor sen. died from the plague or not, it is very likely; from her Inquisition 532 it is known she died on 28 th Oct 1348 533 and it is known that the Black Death killed many in Silchester in that year 534 . The Black Death…. struck the county [of Hampshire] in autumn 1348 and in less than two years killed probably half the population 535 and Wiltshire suffered equally badly, for example in Calstone Wellington, near Oldbury, The Black Death ….hit this community badly and in 1348 the families of one third of the tenants and 40% of the cottars were wiped out. The water mills ceased, as there was no one to run them. 536 530 Cal IPM vol IX Edw III (1916) no 104 pp91-93 Eleanor, late the wife of John Bluet. Peter de Cusaunce son of Margaret daughter of the said Eleanor aged 19 years on the feast of the Purification last (Feb 2nd) is one of her heirs in blood and Eleanor wife of Edmund Baynard daughter of the said Eleanor Bluet aged 30 years and more is co-heir with the said Peter and another heir in blood of the said Eleanor Bluet . 531 Peter de Cusuance son of William de Cusaunce and Margaret his wife, is heir to Lacham and the aforesaid parcels and also of a moiety of the tenements in Beanacre. Eleanor wife of Edmund Baynard daughter of the said John and Eleanor of full age is her heir of the other moiety of the tenements of Beanacre 532 Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Vol IX Edw III, pp 91-93 533 Tuesday the feast of Saints Simon and Jude 22 Edward III” This could either be 1348 or 1349; it has to be 1348 if the Feast of Ss Simon and Jude was on the Tuesday, also the dates for the county inquisitions give a late 1348 date. 534 Victoria County History Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vol 2 p53 535 James, TB (1999) The Black Death in Hampshire Hampshire Record Office 536 Wiltshire Community History – Calstone Wellington at http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=45
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