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Notes for *Mary DE MERLAY | ||||||
142 Mary de Merlay, eldest daughter and co-heir, was twenty-four at the time of her father's death and also then married. In the partition of her father's estate in 1271 Morpeth Castle and Manor were allotted to her and her husband, but in 1286 Robert de Somerville and his wife, her sister Isabel, entered a suit against her and her husband for her purparity of Morpeth, to which she answered in court that in the partition of the estate, which had been made, the Manor of Witton and the Woods of Schuldeten and East Park had been allotted to them and were of greater value than the other property. She married 1st Walter de Bolbec and 2nd William, Lord Greystoke. They had Thomas, 1st Lord Greystoke, d. s. p., John 2nd Lord, d. s. p., and Ralph, 3rd Lord Greystoke. | ||||||
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