Brave murder
Page from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letterbury to Bishop Winchester on the subject of Ella Fitzpain.
Hampshire Archives/Hampshire County Council
Page from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letterbury to Bishop Winchester on the subject of Ella Fitzpain.
Hampshire Archives/Hampshire County Council
Another page from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letterbury to Bishop Winchester on the subject of Ella Fitzpain.
Hampshire Archives/Hampshire County Council
Another page from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letterbury to Bishop Winchester on the subject of Ella Fitzpain.
Hampshire Archives/Hampshire County Council
Page from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letterbury to Bishop Winchester on the subject of Ella Fitzpain.
Hampshire Archives/Hampshire County Council
Another page from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letterbury to Bishop Winchester on the subject of Ella Fitzpain.
Hampshire Archives/Hampshire County Council
The Forde murder was one of several planned revenge murders recorded in the Westcheap area. Forde was walking down the street when another priest, Hascup Neville, caught up with him. As they approached Foster Lane, four Neville conspirators attacked. Erafitzpain’s brother, Hubert; two of her former servants, Hugh and John Strong of Corne; And then a man called John of Tindale. One of them cut Ford’s throat with a 12-inch dagger, while the other two stabbed him in the stomach with a long fight knife.
In the investigation, the ju umpire identified the assassin, but it did not bring justice. “The ju umpire is blind when it comes to pursuing the perpetrator despite naming clear knowledge of the murderer and instigator,” Eisner said. “They are households of the finest aristocrats and no one knows where to put them on trial. They claim that their brothers in the ELA have no possessions to confiscate.
Corne, a former servant, was eventually charged and imprisoned for the crime five years later in 1342, but the other perpetrators essentially escaped it.
Eisner et al. Discovered additional historical records that shed more light on complex history, continuing the feud between Fitzpain and Forde. One detailed how Edward III’s patent roll calendar indictment, detailing how the ELA, her husband, Forde and several other accomplices raided the Benedictine monastery in 1321. [the prior’s] The house, chest, and gates removed horses, colts and wild boars… They defeated the trees, dug into the quarry, carried away stones and trees.
