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John de Lancaster, cousin and heir of Alice who was the wife of Walter de Huntercombe....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/56/2775

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Reference
SC 8/56/2775
Date
[c. 1313]
Description
Petitioners
John de Lancaster, cousin and heir of Alice who was the wife of Walter de Huntercombe.
Name(s)
de Lancaster, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioner asks the king to resolve the enmity and discord between him and Ralph le Fitz William over a moiety of the estate of Alice in accordance with custom and the law of the land. An inquest [upon a writ of] of diem clausit extremum (for Alice) was taken and returned into chancery in 1313-14, which found that the petitioner was her next heir. He sought to enter into his inheritance according to the custom of chancery and of the realm, but only had livery of a moiety of the estate; the other was taken out of his hands in the king's court and is thus without lordship, homage, fealty, relief, wardship and marriage, to the petitioner's disinheritance.
Nature of endorsement
John de Haverington, attorney for John de Lancaster.The moiety was acquired because Ralph Fitz William showed a fine in court that it was held for her (Alice's) lifetime and that Ralph was owed the remainder. The king sent a [writ of] precipe to the escheator to take into his hands the same moiety.
People mentioned
Walter de Huntercombe
Alice [de Huntercombe], who was the wife of Walter de Huntercombe
Ralph le Fitz William.
Note
The petition must date after the inquisition post mortem of Walter Huntercombe, who died in 1313.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/3/111

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4798
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. V, 1-9 Edw II, (Public Record Office, 1908), no. 403 (inquisition post mortem of Walter de Huntercombe)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062993/

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