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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Mortimer (Mortemer), widow of Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March. Mortimer (Mortemer)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/61/3027
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/61/3027
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Mortimer (Mortemer), widow of Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March.
- Name(s)
- Mortimer (Mortemer), Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- 1) Mortimer requests that she be granted regard from the lands that were her husband's in aid of her sustenance as the lands of her inheritance in Ireland are destroyed by the Irish enemies and can take no profit from the land because of the costs of garrisoning it.2) Mortimer further requests that she can have remedy and have livery of her husband's body so that it can be interred amongst his ancestors at Wigmore. The king ordered that the body was to be delivered but the friars minor of Coventry have refused to comply.3) She requests that she can have livery of her lands of Trim since the king answered her petition in the last parliament that he would make a decision at the next parliament, and if the king is still not able to be advised of her right, that he will grant her the lands at the extent until he can be. The land escheated to her late husband by Lacy's alliance with Bruce and since his death are in the king's hand.4) She requests that she may have the custody of her son and his lands, as they are in the hand of the king by his minority, and the lands are being wasted to the heir's and the king's damage.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face]1) Livery of the lands that were the late earl's has been made to Edmund her son by the grace of the king, and on condition that he give a regard of a certain suitable portion to his mother for dower, that it seems that at this time that the gift be in force without impeachment.2) Let the body remain in peace.3) Let it be ordered to the justice of Ireland to have information of the things and afterwards etc.4) [ambiguous marks that may be a response][On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Wigmore, [Herefordshire]
- Coventry, [Warwickshire]
- Trim, [County Meath, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer), Earl of March
- Friars Minor of Coventry
- Hugh de Lascy (Lacy)
- Edward de Brus (Bruce)
- Edmund [de Mortemer (Mortimer)], son and heir of Roger de Mortimer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1332 as the justiciar of Ireland was ordered to restore the Irish lands and Trim in September and October 1332 (CCR 1330-3::pp.489, 503).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5674
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.89 (full summary of second request)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.110, 489, 503 (orders to the justiciar of Ireland to restore the Mortimer lands to the petitioner)
- 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.21 (brief calendar of the first and third requests)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106789/
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