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Alice de Mucheldevere, widow of Robert de Mucheldevere. de Mucheldevere Alice King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/835
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This record is about the Alice de Mucheldevere, widow of Robert de Mucheldevere. de Mucheldevere Alice King... dating from [c. 1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/17/835
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice de Mucheldevere, widow of Robert de Mucheldevere.
- Name(s)
- de Mucheldevere, Alice
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Alice, widow of Robert de Mucheldevere, states that her husband had acquired certain tenements for himself and his heirs - three carucates of land in Pitton, held in chief of the Abbess of Winchester, and two carucates of land in Laverstock, held in chief of the king, together with a forestership in Clarendon in fee - which are now in the king's hand and in the keeping of John Mautravers, because Robert was beheaded at Hereford without a judgment and without being arraigned. She requests her dower, and that Robert's heir, who is eight years old and should be in the king's keeping, might not be disinherited.
- Nature of endorsement
- The great men of the land are to make clear whether he was put to death as an enemy etc.
- Places mentioned
- Putton (Pitton), [Wiltshire]
- Clarendon, [Wiltshire]
- Winchester, [Hampshire]
- Laverstock, [Wiltshire]
- Hereford, [Herefordshire].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Mucheldevere late husband of the petitioner
- Abbess of Our Lady of Winchester
- John Mautravers (Maltravers).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on guard with reference to Fine Rolls and Inquisitions Post Mortem - noting that in the Inquisition Post Mortem the heir is said to be 15 in 1330, whereas in this petition he is described as being eight. It cannot however be as early as 1323, as Robert de Mucheldevere is alive in 1326 (a Fine Roll reference is given, but see also CPR 1324-1327 p. 326 (12 October 1326)). He is dead by 24 February 1327 (CPR 1327-1330 p.22).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5878
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.414a (no.201) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060978/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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