Robert de Bilkemore; Anastasia de Bilkemore, wife of Robert de Bilkemore. de Bilkemore;...

Petitioners

Robert de Bilkemore; Anastasia de Bilkemore, wife of Robert de Bilkemore.

Name(s)

de Bilkemore; de Bilkemore, Robert; Anastasia

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The petitioners request a speedy remedy be done and that Sturmy be made to come to answer for the outrages committed by him which are notoriously to the disinheritance of the king, to the great damage of the queen and to the destruction of the forest. Bilkemore received the bailiwick of the westbailey of the forest of Savernake in right of his wife, but has been disturbed in it by Sturmy who has accroached the lordship of the forest and wasted it. The petitioners have sued to the king and the king and his council without success and Sturmy continues his wasting.

Nature of endorsement

Let this petition be ordered by writ to the keeper of the forest of Savernake, that he hear their complaint of things contained in the petition and do right to them.

Places mentioned

Savernake Forest, [Wiltshire]

Marlborough, [Wiltshire].

People mentioned

Isabella of France, Queen of England

William de Hardene (Harden), father of Anastasia

Robert de Aspale, Steward of the queen

Henry Sturmy, Steward of Savernake Forest.

For another petition by the same petitioners on a different matter see SC 8/158/7861

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/37/1826

For a related petition see SC 8/63/3118

For another petition by the same petitioners on a related matter see SC 8/11/541

For a related document see SC 8/267/13319

For a petitioner by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/33/1648

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.78a-b (no.25) (full transcription of later copy 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 25 (summary of references to related petition)