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Agnes de Vylers (Villers), widow of Francis de Villers. de Vylers (Villers) Agnes...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/678

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This record is about the Agnes de Vylers (Villers), widow of Francis de Villers. de Vylers (Villers) Agnes... dating from [1331] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/14/678
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Agnes de Vylers (Villers), widow of Francis de Villers.
Name(s)
de Vylers (Villers), Agnes
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Vylers requests that she be granted a corrody for herself and her daughter in the abbey of Barking for the service that her husband did for Edward I and Edward II.
Nature of endorsement
It seems to the council that it would be charitable to her to order there or elsewhere, if it pleases the king.
Places mentioned
Holy Land
Gascony, [France]
Wales
Scotland
Flanders
Barking, [Essex].
People mentioned
Francis de Vylers (Villers) bachelor of Edward II, late husband of the petitioner.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/81/4013

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8281
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.407 (request by the king to the abbess of Barking to admit Vylers)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.381b-382a (no.22) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060819/

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