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John de Mandevill (Mandeville). de Mandevill (Mandeville) John King. Mandeville requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2999

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Reference
SC 8/60/2999
Date
[c. 1308]
Description
Petitioners
John de Mandevill (Mandeville).
Name(s)
de Mandevill (Mandeville), John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Mandeville requests that the king will order Peter de Bermingham that he will provide dower for his daughter if the law allows it, or will have regard for her honourable sustenance. His daughter was married to Meilor de Bermingham who drowned when returning from the king's service in Scotland to Ireland leaving her with children and destitute.
Nature of endorsement
It is to be written for the king to Lord Peter and the justice of Ireland that . . . is to be interposed in so far as the laws permit.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Ireland
Scotland.
People mentioned
Joan [de Mandeville], daughter of the petitioner, and husband of Meilor de Bermingham
Margaret, Duchess of Brabant
Meilor de Bermingham, son and heir of Peter de Bermingham
Peter de Bermingham, father of Meilor de Bermingham.
Note
The petition can be no later than 1308 when Peter de Bermingham was dead (CPR 1307-13, p.76).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5609
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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 20 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063220/

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