Joan de Attelbergh (Attleborough), daughter of Roger de Attleborough. de Attelbergh...

Petitioners

Joan de Attelbergh (Attleborough), daughter of Roger de Attleborough.

Name(s)

de Attelbergh (Attleborough), Joan

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Joan, daughter of Roger de Attelbergh, states that her father died seised in his demesne as of fee of a messuage and two carucates of land, with appurtenances, in Ansley and Over Whitacre, and that after his death she entered as daughter and sole heir and was seised peacefully, until Piers de Lymesy and his people disseised her. She has continually sued writs of novel disseisin before the justices assigned to take the assizes in the country, but her case has never come to the assize, because Piers has threatened the people of the assize that if they came before the justices for this, they would be killed, burned and maimed: as she can reasonably prove by good people and by her continual suit. The suit is still pending, but the tenements are now in the king's hand, together with Piers' lands. She requests that the king instigate an enquiry into the truth of this business, and give her grace and a remedy, to prevent her being disinherited.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.Because Piers de Lymesy is in prison, she is to await his release.

Places mentioned

Anysteleye (Ansley), Warwickshire

Over Whitacre, Warwickshire.

People mentioned

Roger de Attelbergh (Attleborough), father of petitioner

Piers de Lymesy.

For another petition by the petitioner and her siblings, see SC 8/31/1512

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.401b, no.84 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp.387-415, no.84 (summary of references)