Earl Of Bedford

Bedford. 2 recorded holders. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. Ingelram de Coucy 1366–1399 ×14
   • 1366-10-08 — Writ de intendendo, commanding him pay to Ingelram de Coucy earl of Bedford and Isabel his wife, king's daughter, the arrears of 146]. 13s. 4d. yearly of the fa…
   • 1367-05-25 — To Richard de Wydeville escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order to deliver according to the king's letters patent to Ingelram de Coucy earl of Bedford and to Isabel…
   • 1368-02-08 — To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to deliver the manor of Haselbere to Ingelram de Coucy earl of Bedford and to Isabel his wife the king's daughter, together wi…
   • 1375-07-20 — To John de Sayville escheator in Yorkshire and Westmorland. Order to deliver to Ingelram de Coucy earl of Bedford and Isabel his wife the king's daughter the ma…
   • 1375-07-20 — To John de Sayville escheator in Yorkshire and Westmorland. Order to deliver to Ingelram de Coucy earl of Bedford and Isabel his wife the king's daughter the ma…
   • 1376-07-03 — Order to the sheriff of Cantebrigge to cause a coroner to be elected instead of Adam Hobeldod, who is abiding continually without Cambridgeshire, wherefore he h…
   • 1376-07-25 — Grant to Gilbert Aymeryk, merchant of Lucca, who has paid to Ingelram de Coucy, earl of Bedford, and the king's daughter Isabel, his wife, 2,000 marks, part of …
   • 1377-10-20 — Grant, for life, during good behaviour, to Thomas Forester of Drybek, of the forester s office in Penrethwarde in the forest of Ingelwode, in the room of John T…
2. Ingram de Coucy 1377
   • 1377-05-13 — Grant in tail to John de Surrey, chivaler, of the manor of Lowystoft by Yarmouth and the hundred of Luddynglond, co. Suffolk, with all liberties, commodities an…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “earl of Bedford”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/earl-of-bedford, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.