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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Isabel of Woodstock, Countess of Bedford, wife of Ingelram de Coucy, Earl of Bedford,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/41/2011
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This record is about the Isabel of Woodstock, Countess of Bedford, wife of Ingelram de Coucy, Earl of Bedford,... dating from [1377-1378] 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 8/41/2011
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377-1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Isabel of Woodstock, Countess of Bedford, wife of Ingelram de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, and daughter of Edward III.
- Name(s)
- Woodstock, Countess of Bedford, Isabel
- Addressees
- Council of the king
- Nature of request
- The petitioner shows that Edward III granted to her and her husband the reversion of many lordships, manors, lands and tenements in Kendal and elsewhere held by Coupland for the term of her life. Perrers came and by subtlety and without reasonable cause took the lands by colour of charters made to Perrers by the earl who afterwards left the country. Isabella requests that it be commanded by letters of the privy seal to the Duke of Lancaster that he order to his sheriff of Lancaster to aid her steward and receiver that they are able to hold courts and levy and collect rents and farms, and do what is appurtenant to their office for the profit of the countess otherwise it will be to the disinheritance of the king, the countess, and her daughter the countess of Oxford, and as a single woman she needs the aid of the king and council.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is found by record that the lands are held from . . . and the reversion to the king, if the earl and his wife die without heirs from their bodies begotten, and no licence of alienation is found in Chancery for which causes and by others it is agreed by the council that the lands are to be seized into the hand of the king by writs in general words, namely . . . sue to the council and justice will be done to her.
- Places mentioned
- Kendal, [Westmorland].
- People mentioned
- Ingelram (Enguerrand) de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, husband of the petitioner
- Edward III, [King of England]
- Joan [de Coupeland (Coupland)], widow of John de Coupland
- Alice Perrers
- [John of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster
- Robert Sturmy, steward of the Countess of Bedford
- Robert Stirkland, receiver of the Countess of Bedford
- [Phillippa], Countess of Oxford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Most petitions against Alice Perrers extant in SC 8 were made in the parliament of October 1378. This petition must date before June 1378 since it refers to Edward III's death as having occurred at St John the Baptist 'last' but, contra Bain, it is not necessarily to be associated with the restoration of Princess Isabella's landed rights in the parliament of October 1377, for which she petitioned separately in SC 8/95/4710.
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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 2138
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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)
- Petition by the Lady Isabella, Countess of Bedford … respecting the rent of lands in Kendal, J Bain, (Archaeologia, LXVI, pp.401-46, 1879), (full edition, translation and discussion of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062216/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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