Women and Inheritance in Norman England:

With the possible exception of an attestation of a document issued by King Stephen in 1136, and a reference to the takeover of his castle at Montreuil-au-Houlme by William de Montpinçon as a base against the Angevins, Richard disappeared from view. He was certainly dead by 1146 or 1147, when Geoffrey Ridel secured confirmation of his father’s estates in England and Normandy from the … ................
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