Finally, John's Inquisitions Post Mortem, held in 1367-8, state that he died on "Saturday in the fourth week of Lent, 40 Edward III". 40 Edward III is Jan
1366-Jan 1367. If my calculations are right - and they may not be - this gives
a death date of 14 March 1366.
Joseph Foster's book of the 1584/5 and 1612 Yorkshire visitations gives a death date of Saturday in the 4th week of Lent in 1367/8. . . . . If 1367/8 is
the regnal year, that would mean 1367.
Douglas Richardson's books give a death date of 19-25 March 1368 for the John de Eure who was born in 1302: . . . . This would appear to be a slip.
I am going to address these in reverse order, but I think all of the differences are explicable through a series of simple, if sloppy, errors. (And sorry for the overly-long post, but this is the kind of trainwreck that takes a lot of explaining topick apart.)
visitation manuscript source. Taking 1367/8 as a rendering of regnal year, it would represent a one-year error in calculation, a type of error that I see occasionally (and that I sometimes make when my head isn't in the game) of simply adding the regnalFinally, John's Inquisitions Post Mortem, held in 1367-8, state that he diedI am not going to duplicate your Lent calculation here, other than to say that the period of Lent in 40 E III would indeed fall in 1366 (modern style).
on "Saturday in the fourth week of Lent, 40 Edward III". 40 Edward III is Jan
1366-Jan 1367. If my calculations are right - and they may not be - this gives
a death date of 14 March 1366.
Joseph Foster's book of the 1584/5 and 1612 Yorkshire visitations gives a death date of Saturday in the 4th week of Lent in 1367/8. . . . . If 1367/8 isClearly Foster's date derives from the ipm, but contains an error in converting the regnal year of 40 Edward III into AD. I suspect for reasons that are unimportant here that the calculation was not done by Foster, but rather was already in his
the regnal year, that would mean 1367.
fourth week of Lent" as simply "the fourth week of Lent". While I haven't bothered for the purposes of this message to determine when the 4th week of Lent fell in 1368, I presume that is what the precise 7-day span represents.Douglas Richardson's books give a death date of 19-25 March 1368 for the John de Eure who was born in 1302: . . . . This would appear to be a slip.
This is from two further slips, one building on the error present in Foster's visitation. First, note that Richardson's date range is a full seven days rather than a precise date. The likely explantaion for this is a misreading of "Saturday in the
What about the year, which we know from the Close Roll entry to be completely impossible? Two successive errors have occured. First, we have the error we see in Foster's publication, of someone misconverting 40 E III into Anno Domini as "1367/8" ratherthan 1366/7. In doing so, they not only made an error, but they laid the groundwork for the second error. Given Edward III's January succession date it would have been entirely straightforward to determine that a day in the 4th week of Lent would have
This created an ambiguity because the same orthographic rendering (year/year) came to be used to indicate an entirely different phenomenon, the change from a 25 March new year to 1 January. From the late 16th century through the late 17th as the trendtoward the modern form gained steam, one often sees dates falling between 1 January and 25 March represented using both years, again separated by a slash. Thus, rather than referring to a regnal bi-year, a date of 1367/8 might instead be seen as old-
While it is not uncommon practice in modern times for historians and genealogists to render historical dates falling between the two new year dates using O/N bi-year representation, Mr. Richardson has here vehemently championed resolving them to showonly the modern year formulation. That is what he has seemingly done in this case. Though the 1367/8 (sic) year originally represented an unresolved regnal bi-year, placing the event in 1367 (sic), he interpreted it as O/N bi-year dating and resolved it
So, how we get from the ipm date first to Foster's and then to Richardson's dates is: 1) misrendering the regnal year 40 E III as 1367/8, 2) misinterpreting 1367/8 as O/N dating and resolving it to 1368, 3) accidentally dropping the specific day (Saturday) within the 4th week of Lent, and finally, 4) calculating the 4th week of Lent based on the wrong year. Unfortunately, by now these erroneous dates are going to be all over the internet crowdsourced genealogies, so we are stuck with them.
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