The rules of inheritance are summarized elsewhere on this website: briefly, primogeniture gave priority to the direct line (descendants) over collaterals (siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins) and for males in order of birth over females. Most property in the IPMs was held in fee simple by primogeniture, a system of common law inheritance.
1445), is illustrative of the wider kin who might succeed, in this case a second cousin once removed. Michael Hicks explores the rules of inheritance applied to some distant heirs.ĬIPM xxvi.303, the inquisition post mortem of William Burley (d. Up and Down the Family Tree, or, Medieval Heir Hunters
New publication: ‘The Bastardy of Edward V in 1484: New evidence of its reception in the inquisitions post mortem of William, Lord Hastings’, Royal Studies Journal, 3 (2016), 71-9.Medieval markets, the Portable Antiquities Scheme, and the IPMs.
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