Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 2: Burnell


BURNELL

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Volume 2, page 435 (as corrected by volume 14):
He [Hugh (Burnell), Lord Burnell (born c. 1347, died 1420)] m., 1stly, (-----), by whom alone he had issue. He m., 2ndly, in 1386, before 21 Apr., Joyce, according to modern doctrine, suo jure BARONESS BOTETOURT and BARONESS ZOUCHE (of Mortimer) &c., ...

Hugh Burnell's wife in 1370 was named Elizabeth [Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol.3, p.285, which notes that the manor of Billingford, Norfolk, had been granted to Hugh and Elizabeth by diverse persons, who had been enfeoffed by [Hugh's father] Nicholas Burnell].

[Douglas Richardson pointed out this evidence in January 2002.]