Emma de Kent, lately the wife of John de Kent de Kent Emma King The petitioner seeks...

Petitioners

Emma de Kent, lately the wife of John de Kent

Name(s)

de Kent, Emma

Addressees

King

Nature of request

The petitioner seeks the return of the manor of Dysart in Ireland. She states that Ralph Pippard jointly enfeoffed her with her husband of the manor of Dysart in return for 100s per year to Ralph who granted the rent to his son John, who then held the services of the petitioner and her husband for seven years. Ralph then came to the eyre of Drogheda in the thirty-first year of the king and before Lenfaunt, Littlebury, Bridgewater and Alexander (justices itinerant), brought a writ of cessavit per biennium against John de Kent without naming the petitioner while John was imprisoned in England without an attorney, and so Ralph Pippard recovered Dysart by the default of John de Kent, but Ralph had granted all his lands in Ireland to the king in exchange for lands in England a good half year before the Drogheda eyre. Ralph's attorney, Neel le Brun (after wrongfully recovering Dysart in the eyre), handed it to the king to keep it away from the petitioner and her heirs.

Nature of endorsement

She is to sue before Roger le Brabazon and his associates that the petitioner may be heard before them and let justice be done and she is to send to parliament for the record and proceedings etc.

Places mentioned

Dissard (Dysart), [County Westmeath, Ireland]

Drowehda (Drogheda), [Ireland]

Irlaunde (Ireland)

People mentioned

John de Kent, late husband of the petitioner

Ralph Pypard (Pippard)

John [Pippard], son of Ralph Pippard

Walter Lenfaunt

Robert de Lytlebyr (Littlebury)

John du Pouns (Bridgewater)

William Alisandre (Alexander)

Neel le Brun

Roger le Brabazon

For a later petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/120/5956

For a related document see SC 8/324/E633D

For a related document formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/55/2705B

For a petition by the petitioner's husband, see SC 8/55/2701

• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.18 (brief calendar)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no.540 (full edition and translation)
• Two Hitherto Unpublished Membranes of Irish Petitions, Presented at the Midsummer Parliament of 1302 and the Lent Parliament of 1305, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, G. Hand, (Royal Irish Academy, 1971), pp.1-18 (edition of petition)