Clarissa of Riddlesden

  General Notes:

Sir Simon, 38 Henry III, =p Lady Clarissa de Riddlesden, (Harl. MS., 2188.)

The Calendar of Patent Rolls, 9th February Henry III (i.e. 1229), Vol 2, p. 283 refers to Clarissa, wife of Simon de Muhaut with a tenement in Redlesden:
"Robertus de Percy, Marmeduc de Tvenge, Willelmus de Barthon et Walterus de Grendal consitiuti sunt justiciarii ad assisam nove dissaisine capiendam in crastino clausi Pasche apud Eboracum quam Claricia que fuit uxor Simonis de Muhaut aramiavit versus B. de Insula, Galfridum le Messer et Richardum filium Bernardi, de tenemento in Redlesden; salvis etc. amerciamentis. Test rege, apud Westmonasterium, ix die Februarii. Per S. de Sedgrave"
This translates as:
Robert of Percy, Marmeduke of Tvenge, William of Barthon and Water of Grendal stood firmly for rights continuously of novel disseissin must be taken on the morrow to graze on the enclosures near York, with Claricia once the wife of Simon of Muhaut accused against Bernard from the Island, Galfrid (Godfrey?) le Messer and Richard son of Bernard, by the land held by the tenant in Redlesden; except for etc. by the harness makers, Witness by the king of the house of Westminister, 9th day of February. By Simon of Sedgrave.
It refers to some land that was in dispute that was being grazed upon, or was to be grazed upon at some point after a certain day/time. Seems the first lot of people were witnesses to a court parley between Clarice/Clarissa, wife of Simon de Montalt and the parties mentioned in Riddlesden. Simon de Sedgrave was the sheriff of that part of Yorkshire and Lancashire near the time of the ruling, or just before.

Clarissa married Simon Monhault, son of Robert de Montalt and Unknown, in 1255. (Simon Monhault died circa 1295.)