Brigandage
is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. It is practiced by a brigand, a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery.
Canonical Marriage
concerns the validity of the marriage in which at least one of the spouses is Catholic at the time of the marriage. These are rules imposed by the Church, and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized."
Consanguinity
Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor; connection between persons by blood or marriage.
Carody
a right to receive maintenance in the form of housing, food, or clothing, especially the right enjoyed by the sovereign or a private benefactor to receive such maintenance from a religious house. - the housing, food, or clothing so received.
Coronet
was originally the lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, the modern equivalent being a second lieutenant. The rank was abolished by the 1871 Cardwell Reforms, which replaced it with sub-lieutenant. Although obsolete, the term is still used as an internal title of address when referring to a second lieutenant within the British Army regiments of the Blues and Royals and Queen's Royal Hussars.
Enfeoffment
An enfeoffment was an early form of trust in which trustees held the land on behalf of the landowner as a means of avoiding inheritance taxes
Feudalism
also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, and cultural customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships that were derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor.
Fealty
In medieval Europe, the swearing of fealty took the form of an oath made by a vassal, or subordinate, to his lord. "Fealty" also referred to the duties incumbent upon a vassal that were owed to the lord, which consisted of service and aid. One part of the oath of fealty included swearing to always remain faithful to the lord.
Fief
an estate of land; especially one held on condition of feudal service
Hagiography
is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Christian hagiographies focus on the lives, and notably the miracles, ascribed to men and women canonized by the Roman Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Church of the East.
being "Landed"
refers to the ownership of land, usually in the form of hamlets or country estates. These very often provided a substantial income to the landowners, usually through tenant farms or lucrative rights to fishing, shooting or hunting.
Man-at-Arms
a soldier from the High Medieval to Renaissance periods who was typically well-versed in the use of arms and served as a fully armored heavy cavalryman. A man-at-arms could be a knight or nobleman, a member of a knight or nobleman's retinue or a mercenary in a company under a mercenary captain. Such men could serve for pay or through a feudal obligation. The terms knight and man-at-arms are often used interchangeably, but while all knights equipped for war certainly were men-at-arms, not all men-at-arms were knights.
Mayor of the Palace
in medieval times the "Mayor of the Palace" was the manager of the household of the Frankish king. During the second half of the seventh century, the office evolved into the "power behind the throne". At that time the mayor of the palace held and wielded the real and effective power to make decisions affecting the kingdom, while the kings were increasingly reduced to performing merely ceremonial functions
"Natural born" child
was an illegitimate child
Oxgang (of land)
an oxgang being the amount of land which could be ploughed by a single ox in a ploughing season, usually equating to 15-20 acres.
Progeny
progeny is having descendants or children. The Latin word is itself an offspring of the prefix pro-, meaning "forth," and gignere, which can mean "to beget" or "to bring forth." The noun progenitor can mean "an ancestor in the direct line," Usually this is used such as "died without (or with) progeny"
recusancy
crime of refusing to attend Anglican church services, at the time of John's life Henry VIII had split from the Catholic Church - turning England towards a separate strain of Christianity based on Protestant faiths.
See
An episcopal see is, in a practical use of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Synod
is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.
Vassel
a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance. - a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
With issue
this is another way of saying they had children
Without issue
this is a way of saying they did NOT have children