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Cecily de Beauchamp. de Beauchamp Cecily King and council. Beauchamp requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/40

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Reference
SC 8/1/40
Date
[c. 1317]
Description
Petitioners
Cecily de Beauchamp.
Name(s)
de Beauchamp, Cecily
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Beauchamp requests that the king consider giving her land or other things in England so that she is not disinherited, because she holds a portion of the county of Kildare from which she received the issues and profits pertaining to her from the county at the Exchequer of Dublin. The king has given the portion to Thomas Fitz John, earl of Kildare. He refuses to allow Beauchamp to have anything from her portion. The value of the portion is £6 4s 7d.
Nature of endorsement
Roger Mortimer is charged to do right.
Places mentioned
Kyldar (Kildare), [Ireland]
Duvelyn (Dublin), [Ireland].
People mentioned
Thomas Fitz John [FitzGerald], Earl of Kildare.
Note
The petition must date to after 1317 as it refers to Thomas son of John son of Gerald, earl of Kildare who only became earl in 1317.
Related material

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/1/46

For a related petition from Cecily's son, see SC 8/32/1571

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 894
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.6 (brief calendar of petition)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp. 153-4 (edition of Latin summary of earlier related petition on parliament roll)
  • Proceedings against the Crown (1216-1377), Ludwik Ehrlich, (, 1921), pp. 246-7 (edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.195b (no.26) (another petition relating to Beauchamp's interests in Kildare); p.182b (Latin summary of earlier related petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060152/

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