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Robert de Stauntone (Staunton, Stanton). de Stauntone (Staunton, Stanton) Robert...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/306

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Reference
SC 8/7/306
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Stauntone (Staunton, Stanton).
Name(s)
de Stauntone (Staunton, Stanton), Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Robert de Stauntone states that he had bought the marriage of John de Santemareys, and that this John, who was under age, was found in the castle of Crickhowell by John Gacelyn, who had a commission to seize the said castle, and he seized him, understanding that he held lands of the king in chief. Robert sued a writ of Chancery to the escheator north of the Trent, who has found by inquest, returned in Chancery, that John holds nothing of the king in chief. Therefore, Robert requests that the child be returned to him, as the king cannot claim anything from him.
Nature of endorsement
The inquisition returned in Chancery is to be examined, and justice to be done there.Below, deleted: Because the body of the heir was found in the castle, therefore coram rege.
Places mentioned
Crickhowell, [Brecknockshire, Wales]
People mentioned
John de Santemareys
John Gacelyn
Escheator north of the Trent.
Note
The petition is dated to 1322 as the seizure of the ward in the castle of Crickhowell occurred in the aftermath of the failed baronial revolt.One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/317/E262

For a related document, see no. 3179 in C 81/167

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7818
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.409a, no. 130 (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. 130 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060428/

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