Joyce Culpeper married John Wroth, who died on 24 August 1412. Her second husband was Hugh Halston. Joyce died 7 September 1422. Her heir was her brother Walter, age 24 years and more, at the time of the inquisition following her death (1 March 1422/23).
1389 John Wroth was born on 24 September. The inquisition post mortem for John's father John Wroth, knight, held at Enfield in Middlesex on 13 October 1407, states, "John Wroth his son and next heir was aged 16 years on 24 Sept. last." [1]
1412 John Wroth died on 24 August. Elizabeth his sister, wife of William Palton, aged 22 years and more, was his next heir. [2]
1412 Dower for Joyce, widow of John Wroth, was assigned on October 10. [3]
1412 Oct. 10. Westminster. To the escheator in Somerset. Order to give Joyce who was wife of John Wroth the son, of whom the king has taken an oath etc., livery of the manors of Wydecombe, Wyke, Hokkombe, Brompton Raufe and Elleworth, which the king has assigned to her in dower; as the king took the fealty of William Palton knight, who took to wife Elizabeth sister and heir of John Wroth son and heir of John Wroth knight and cousin (consanguinei) and one of the heirs of John de Welyngton brother of Ralph son of John de Welyngton knight, for the lands held of the king by John Wroth knight and of the late king by John de Welyngton knight, and for those held in dower by Joan who was wife of Thomas West after the death of the said Ralph her first husband, which all came to those kings' hands by their deaths, by reason of the nonage of the said Ralph, the idiocy of John his brother, who died within age in ward of the late king, and the nonage of John Wroth the son, who died within age in ward of the king, and by divers writs ordered the late escheators in Somerset, Cornwall, Devon, Middlesex, the county of Suthampton and Gloucestershire to give the said William and Elizabeth seisin thereof, saving the dower of the said Joyce; and with assent of Nicholas Wymbyssh clerk, attorney of the said William and Elizabeth, and John Clerke attorney of the said Joyce, the king has assigned to her the said manors, a third part of the manor of Enfelde co. Middlesex, and the [whole] manor of Hunschawe co. Devon. To the escheator in Middlesex. Order to give the said Joyce livery of a third part of the manor of Enfeld, which the king has assigned to her among other lands of John Wroth, son and heir of John Wroth and cousin and one of the heirs of John de Welyngton brother of Ralph son of John de Welyngton knight, and lands held in dower by Joan who was wife of Thomas West after the death of the said Ralph. To the escheator in Devon. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning the manor of Hunschawe.
1422 Joyce (Culpeper) (Wroth) Halsham died on September 7. Her IPM names Walter Culpeper, aged 24 years and more, as her brother and heir. [4]
Joyce Wife of Hugh Halsham, Knight.
12 Writ. 18 October 1422. [Wymbyssh]
Middlesex. Inquistion. Edmonton. 1 March 1423. [Charryngworth] ...
She held no lands or tenements of the king in chief or of another in demesne or in service, but she held 1/3 manor of Enfield in dower by assignment of Henry IV after the death of John Wroth her first husband, of the inheritance of John Tiptoft, knight, son of Agnes sister of John Wroth, chevalier, father of John Wroth the husband, brother of Elizabeth late wife of William Palton, knight, John Tiptoft being the kinsmand and heir of this Elizabeth [CCR 1409-13, p. 382]. There are there a broken-down and derelict messuage, worth nothing yearly; a carucate, worth 40s. yearly; 6 a. 3 roods of pasture [Exchequer copy has 30 a.], worth 2s. 6d. yearly; and £9 10s. rents taken yearly from various tenants at Michaelmas, Christmas, Easter and Midsummer in equal portions. The 1/3 manor is held of the king in chief by service of 1/3 of 1/8 of 1/4 knight's fee.
She died on 7 September last. John Tiptoft is 40 years and more. Walter Colepepir is her brother and heir, aged 24 years and more.
C 139/1/10 mm.1-2.
[1] J. L. Kirby, ed., Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 19, 7-14 Henry IV, 1405-1413 (London: HMSO, 1992), 65, [BritishHistoryOnline].
[2] J. L. Kirby, ed., Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 19, 7-14 Henry IV, 1405-1413 (London: HMSO, 1992), 337, [BritishHistoryOnline].
[3] A. E. Stamp, ed., Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV, Vol. 4, 1409-1413 (London: HMSO, 1932), 382, [HathiTrust].
[4] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 22, 1-5 Henry VI, 1422-1427 (London: HMSO, 2003), 82, [HathiTrust].