Geoffrey Dapetot (Dabetot, D'Abitot). Dapetot (Dabetot, D'Abitot) Geoffrey King and...

Petitioners

Geoffrey Dapetot (Dabetot, D'Abitot).

Name(s)

Dapetot (Dabetot, D'Abitot), Geoffrey

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Geoffrey Dapetot states that after the death of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (called 'St Thomas of Lancaster' here), Hugh le Despenser the son had him attached and held in a harsh prison at Gloucester, because he was of the Earl of Lancaster's party, in the company of Lord de Mortimer and the Earl of Hereford, and would not release him until he had granted him his manor of Redmarley D'Abitot, receiving nothing for it; and that when the king and his mother came, John de Sapy obtained that manor as a gift on false information, and still holds it, wrongly, and contrary to the statute made at Westminster on behalf of those harmed and disinherited in that quarrel. He requests that the process, now in Chancery, be examined, and justice done.

Nature of endorsement

He is to receive aid through the statute.

Places mentioned

Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]

Redmarley D'Abitot, [Worcestershire].

People mentioned

Thomas of Lancaster, [earl of Lancaster]

Hugh le Despenser the son

[Roger] de Mortimer

[Humphrey de Bohun], Earl of Hereford

Isabella [of France], Queen of England

John de Sapy.

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/239/11925

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.477 (association of the Bishop of Lincoln, Roger de Mortimer earl of March, and John Mautravers, with the justices to hear and do justice in this case)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.411a (no.183) (full edition of original petition)