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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alice le Bygod (Bigod), widow of Roger le Bigod, late earl of Norfolk and Marshal...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/42
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This record is about the Alice le Bygod (Bigod), widow of Roger le Bigod, late earl of Norfolk and Marshal... dating from [c. 1307-1308] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/1/42
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-1308]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice le Bygod (Bigod), widow of Roger le Bigod, late earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England.
- Name(s)
- Bygod (Bigod), Alice
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- 1) Bygod requests reasonable dower or compensation from the lands of the late earl in England for the Marshalship of England, and of 50 marks which the earl received from the Exchequer each year for the county of Norfolk. She also requests that she might have further dower lands from the earl's lands in England in exchange for lands in Ireland which the king might wish to hold whole.2) Bygod further requests that her claim of dower is not further delayed, and that some allowance is made for the 2 years delay in assigning her dower. She had sued to Edward I for an assignment but he did nothing, and a further suit to the last parliament led to an order to search the remembrances of Chancery and Exchequer before the next parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Norfolk
- Hirland (Ireland).
- People mentioned
- Roger le Bygod (Bigod), Earl of Norfolk
- Adam de Osegodby (Osgodby).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition would appear to date to the period 1307-8. The reference to one parliament already having been held, and one parliament to come presumably refer to the Northampton parliament, the first of Edward II's reign, and his coronation parliament of February 1308. It is unlikely to be later than this, as Bygod went on pilgrimage to St James, Compostella in 1309 (cf. various refs in CPR 1307-13). It is also unlikely to be earlier than 1306 when Bigod was appointing attorneys to sue for her dower (Rot. Parl., vol I, p.191b).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 743
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- 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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.191b (Bigod appoints attorneys to sue for her dower)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060154/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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