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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Maud de Bourchier, wife of John de Bourchier, knight. de Bourchier Maud King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1016
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This record is about the Maud de Bourchier, wife of John de Bourchier, knight. de Bourchier Maud King and... dating from [c. 1375-c.1378] 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 8/21/1016
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1375-c.1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Maud de Bourchier, wife of John de Bourchier, knight.
- Name(s)
- de Bourchier, Maud
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Maud, wife of John de Bourchier, knight, states that her husband has long been a prisoner in Brittany, and is ransomed at 12000 francs, that is, 8000 francs paid at Boulogne last Michaelmas for the first payment, handing over a bond of Lord de Latymer for 8000 francs, on certain conditions and agreements between Lady de Roys and John Bourchier; but Lady de Roys has not kept to her side of the bargain, because of Roger de Belfort, prisoner at le Captal, who wishes to marry her. She requests that the king arrange for the release of her husband, and that Roger de Belfort not be delivered from custody until the agreements have been fulfilled.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king will see what seems to him best to be done on this matter.
- Places mentioned
- Brittany, [France]
- Boulogne, [France]
- le Captal [unidentified].
- People mentioned
- John de Bourchier, knight
- Lord de Latymer (Latimer)
- Lady de Roys
- Roger de Belfort (Beaufort).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? 1377-8, by cross-reference to Carte, Catalogue, vol.II, pp. 120, 126. Sir Roger Belfort (otherwise Beaufort) was the brother of Pope Gregory XI and his release from captivity in England to raise his ransom was one of the conditions set on the Anglo-French truce of Bruges of 1375. Lord Latimer died in 1381; the dating of this petition in Rot. Parl. vol. III, p. 256a, to 1387-8, is impossible.
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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 952
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.256a (no. 16) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061176/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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