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Petitioners

Hugh de Courtenay, earl of Devon.

Name(s)

de Courtenay, earl of Devon, Hugh

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Courtenay requests that the king do justice to him in the matter of the de Forz inheritance. He is kinsman and heir of Isabel de Forz, and after her death Edward I seized the county of Devon, the Isle of Wight and several manors in Hampshire, and held them during the minority of Courtenay's father, rendering the county and Breamore and Lymington to Courtenay's father and retaining the Isle of Wight and the manor of Christchurch Twyneham when he came of age. These have remained in the king's hands since then.

Nature of endorsement

Coram ipso rege.

Places mentioned

Devon

Isle of Wight, [Hampshire]

Christchurch Twyneham (Christchurch), [Hampshire]

Brounnore (Breamore), [Hampshire]

Lymington, [Hampshire].

People mentioned

Isabel de Forz, Countess of Devonshire, and Lady of the Isle of Wight

Edward I, King of England

Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, father of the petitioner.

For an earlier petition by the petitioner's father on the same matter, see SC 8/3/101

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.179b-180a (no.18) (full edition of a 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 22 (summary of petition)