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Joan de Fryvill (Freville), widow of Alexander de Freville. de Fryvill (Freville)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/16/778

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This record is about the Joan de Fryvill (Freville), widow of Alexander de Freville. de Fryvill (Freville)... dating from [c. 1328] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/16/778
Date
[c. 1328]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Fryvill (Freville), widow of Alexander de Freville.
Name(s)
de Fryvill (Freville), Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Joan, widow of Alexander de Fryvill, states that she and her husband held, of her inheritance, the castle of Tamworth, with the advowson of the deanery and prebends of the church of Tamworth, and that, by fine levied in the court of the king's father and by his charter of permission, they granted the castle and advowsons to Baldwin, their son and heir, retaining to themselves estate for term of life. After Alexander's death, she presented to the vacant deanery, but was prevented by the king, who had made his own presentation to that church because of Alexander's lands and tenements being in his hand, in ignorance of the feoffment. She requests that the king order the Chancellor that, when he has seen the tenor of the fine and the charter of permission, he have the king's presentation repealed.
Nature of endorsement
She is to sue a writ for the king, and justice is to be done to her.
Places mentioned
Tamworth, [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
Alexander de Fryvill (Freville), late husband of petitioner
Baldwin [de Fryvill (Freville)], son of petitioner.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3361
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.278 (order to escheator not to intermeddle further with the castle of Tamworth, because of the feoffment mentioned in the petition) & p.313 (order to escheator to deliver the castle of Tamworth to Joan)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.301 (presentation by the king of Richard de Gloucestre to the deanery of Tamworth in his gift by reason of the lands of Alexander de Frevill being in his hand)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.403b (no. 139) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060919/

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