Beatrice le Mareschall (Marshal), widow of William le Marshal. Mareschall (Marshal)...

Petitioners

Beatrice le Mareschall (Marshal), widow of William le Marshal.

Name(s)

Mareschall (Marshal), Beatrice

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Mareschall requests that since she has no other sustenance that remedy and justice be done to her that she not lose the tenements by default, the tenements lying in Wark in the liberty of Tynedale which are now seised in the hand of the king with the other lands that were the bishop of Durham's within the same liberty. Mareschal's father granted to her and her husband by his charter of certain tenements in Grindon. Her husband, whom she could not contradict, alienated the tenements to King Alexander whereby they came into the hand of the bishop of Durham. Following her husband's death she sued to the bishop but could not have her right.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Wark, [Northumberland]

Tynedale, [Northumberland]

Grendon (Grindon), [Northumberland].

People mentioned

William le Mareschal (Marshal)

Richard, father of the petitioner

Alexander III, King of Scotland

Antony [Bek], Bishop of Durham.

For the copy of the charter formerly appended to this petition see SC 8/60/2984

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.197a (no.39) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.54 (full edition and translation)