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Gervase Alard of Winchelsea. Alard Gervase King. Gervase Alard requests that consideration...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/10/471
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This record is about the Gervase Alard of Winchelsea. Alard Gervase King. Gervase Alard requests that consideration... dating from [1298-1307] 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 8/10/471
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1298-1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Gervase Alard of Winchelsea.
- Name(s)
- Alard, Gervase
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Gervase Alard requests that consideration be given him for his service to the king, in Gascony (with the king's brother Edmund), Flanders, Scotland, Normandy and everywhere else where the king has been at war, as he is growing old and has spent most of his money in the king's service, and has received nothing except £4 from the hands of Ralph le Coffrer at Ross in Galloway and a horse worth 4 marks from the king. If this does not please the king he requests a little piece of land at Pevensey of the fee of the barony of the Eagle, called the Island, which he should be given, as he had previously purchased it from the right heirs, and was deforced of it in the time of Peter of Savoye and since.
- Nature of endorsement
- (On face)Berenger Tyrel his kinsman held it, and enfeoffed Peter of Savoy with it.(On dorse)Coram rege.This is to be inquired into, and the inquisition is to be brought back to another parliament.A writ is to be sent to Robert de Burghersh.
- Places mentioned
- Winchelsea, [Sussex]
- Gascony, [France]
- Flanders
- Scotland
- Normandy, [France]
- La Rose en Galeweye (Ross), [Galloway, Scotland]
- Pevensey, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- Edmund [Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster], brother of king
- Ralph le Coffrer
- Peter of Savoye (Savoy)
- Berenger Tyrel
- Robert de Burgersh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1301-7, p.469 may be a response to this petition, in which case it may date from c. 1306, but the attribution is uncertain and the dates ascribed here reflect what is said in the petition about the wars of Edward I.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.8 of PRO 31/7/93
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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 200
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.469 (grant for life to Gervase Alard of the town of New Winchelsea, possibly in response to this petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.474a, no.80 (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060597/
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