Richard de Apperleye (Apperley); Joan de Apperleye (Apperley), wife of Richard de...

Petitioners

Richard de Apperleye (Apperley); Joan de Apperleye (Apperley), wife of Richard de Apperley.

Name(s)

de Apperleye (Apperley); de Apperleye (Apperley), Richard; Joan

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Richard de Apperleye states that he had a messuage and two carucates of land, with appurtenances, in Culverden in King's Barton near Gloucester, which have come into the king's hand through the forfeiture of Henry de Willington. Henry had menaced Richard with the great power he had from Roger Damory, and with his great lineage, and had threatened him with being killed or maimed if he did not sell him the tenements. Joan, Richard's wife holds the tenements jointly with him, and they are entailed on the heirs of their bodies - as can be found by a fine levied on this in the King's Bench. Therefore Richard and Joan request the king's grace.

Nature of endorsement

The petition is unjust while her husband is alive.

Places mentioned

Culverden (Coverdine), [Gloucestershire]

La Bertone le Rey (King's Barton), [Gloucestershire]

Gloucester, [Gloucestershire].

People mentioned

Henry de Wilingtone (Willington)

Roger Damory.

For another petition by Richard de Apperley, see SC 8/17/816

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.408a, no.124 (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.124 (summary of references)