Margaret de Batelesmere (Badlesmere), widow of Bartholomew de Badlesmere de Batelesmere...

Petitioners

Margaret de Batelesmere (Badlesmere), widow of Bartholomew de Badlesmere

Name(s)

de Batelesmere (Badlesmere), Margaret

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Margaret, widow of Bartholomew de Batelesmere, and one of the sisters and heirs of Richard de Clare, states that while she was in the king's prison, Robert de Welles, the husband of Maud, the younger sister, with the aid and maintenance of Hugh le Despenser, had the lands of the inheritance assessed and took Maud's share, both in England and in Ireland, although Margaret did not assent to this division or take anything. She requests that the division might be made again, according to the assessments returned in Chancery, and that she might have the choice of her share, as she is the elder sister.

Nature of endorsement

Let the valuation returned in Chancery be examined, and let the division be made between the aforesaid heirs, as is rightly to be done.

Places mentioned

Ireland.

People mentioned

Bartholomew de Batelesmere (Badlesmere), late husband of the petitioner

Richard de Clare, brother of petitioner

Robert de Welles

Maud [de Welles], sister of petitioner

Hugh le Despenser.

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/41/2039

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.136 (order to the Escheator in Ireland to deliver to the petitioner her purparty in Ireland)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), pp.30-31 (order to the Justiciar of Ireland to deliver to the petitioner her purparty in Ireland) & p.35 (order to the Chancellor of Ireland to deliver to the petitioner the wardship of Maud's purparty during the minority of her son) & p.41 (order to the Escheator beyond Trent to deliver to the petitioner her share of the stewardship of the forest of Essex, and wardship of the share of Maud's son)