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Joan Foun, widow of Richard Foun Foun Joan King and council Joan, widow of Richard...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/47/2339

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Reference
SC 8/47/2339
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Joan Foun, widow of Richard Foun
Name(s)
Foun, Joan
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Joan, widow of Richard Foun, states that her husband was seised of a messuage and a carucate of land with appurtenances in Yeaveley in Derbyshire, which he held of the Earl of Lancaster, and which should remain to her after his death in wardship, because of the minority of his son and heir, of whom she is the closest relative; but these tenements have been seized into the king's hand because her husband was steward of the Earl of Lancaster of the honour of Leicester. She requests justice and a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
Vacated because a duplicate.
Places mentioned
Yeaveley, Derbyshire
People mentioned
Richard Foun, steward of the Earl of Lancaster of the honour of Leicester
[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster
Richard [Foun], son of petitioner
Note
CCR 1318-23 pp.589-590 is dated at Felton, 8 August 1322.
Related material

The writ ordering the holding of this inquisition is SC 8/204/10199

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/204/10197

Another petition relating to Foun's death is SC 8/127/6322

For a near duplicate of this petition is SC 8/203/10126

An inquisition held as a result of SC 8/204/10197 is SC 8/204/10198

For the writ ordering the holding of this inquisition, see SC 8/203/10128

An inquisition relating to SC 8/234/11674 is SC 8/234/11676

A writ relating to SC 8/234/11674 is SC 8/234/11675

For a related inquisition, see SC 8/203/10127

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3345
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.589-590 (order to deliver to Joan Foun a messuage and a carucate of land in Yeaveley as nearest kin of the heir)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062550/

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