Uxoricide and Mariticide

SB = Susanne Brand

Mariticide

1232. Warwickshire. Rogeri Gomeri was found dead. His wife Anabil was suspected and the jury says they suspect her. She is pregnant so returned to prison and later burned [1] SB
time of E III. Hampshire. Henry Warald of Wherwell was feloniously feloniously killed by his wife Isabell in Mestowe Hundred who then fled to Wherwell Priory [2] SB
1279/80. Hampshire and Wiltshire. Henry atte Lyth was found dead in his bed.The first finder is not suspected. Later his wife Eva is found guilty at Gaol Delivery and burned [3] SB

1387. Hampshire. Andrew de Wauton was feloniously killed on 24 June 1387 by his wife Elizabeth with Robert Blak, chaplain, and John Bale, his servant, as helpers [4] SB

1391. Wiltshire.John Shateba was feloniously killed by his wife Juliana Scottes on 22 October 1391 at night in their home in Mere in a ditch near Hedelgrove [5] SB

1420. Northamptonshire. Thomas Beeston of Sywell, an oyer and terminer justice of Northamptonshire, was killed by his wife Katherine together with other unknown persons at Sywell on 1 June 1420 in a croft called Counynger with a pollax. She was burned. [6] SB

1279/1282.Yorkshire?. Simon le Constable was accused of having poisoned his (first) wife Joan with the help of Beatrice de Ver. He chose to stand mute and died in prison unconvicted [7] SB (see also Paul Brand, The 1294 'Report ('Aprisa') into the alleged crimes of Katherine the widow of Simon Constable, and its aftermath, in: English Medieval Government and Administration. Essays in Honour of J.R.Maddicott, eds. N. Saul and N. Vincent, Pipe Roll Society NS 65, 2023, pp. 299-316
1368. Huntingdonshire. Margaret, wife of Nicholas Dengayne was feloniously killed by her husband on 1 May 1368 in St Neoto[8] SB
1375. Northamptonshire. Juliana, wife of Richard Deye was feloniously killed by her husband before 15 June 1375 [9] SB
1384. Worcestershire. Maud, wife of William Hakeley of Worcester was feloniously killed at night by her husband on 15 November 1384 in Worcester and her body hidden in a pit connected with his occupation (puteo de arte sua) called Barkeput (Bark-pit, for hides steeped in tanning) [10] SB
1400.Lincolnshire. Emma, wife of William Deen of Pinchbeck, chapman, murdered his wife at night in Pinchbeck on 21 September 1400. He fled but was later hanged [11] SB

1434. Norfolk. John Jeket, husbandman of Gimingham, was accused of the malicious poising of his wife Emma with Costard and Wellydmylke mixed with Ratonesbane on 3 and 4 November 1434. However the jury found him not guilty of murder and said that Emma was suffering from a serious illness and that this was the cause of her death [12] SB