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Constance de Mortimer, widow of Henry de Mortimer. de Mortimer Constance King. Mortimer...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/61/3031

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This record is about the Constance de Mortimer, widow of Henry de Mortimer. de Mortimer Constance King. Mortimer... dating from [c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/61/3031
Date
[c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Constance de Mortimer, widow of Henry de Mortimer.
Name(s)
de Mortimer, Constance
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Mortimer requests that the archbishop of Canterbury or his commissary be requested that she not be troubled in court Christian and that judgement not be given against her concerning the vicar of Frome's demand for her late husband's second best horse which he had with him in Ireland when he died as a mortuary, as his destrier and his armour have already been given to the church where he was buried.
Nature of endorsement
She should have a writ of prohibition formed in his case.
Places mentioned
Frome [unidentified], [Herefordshire]
Hereford diocese
Ireland.
People mentioned
Henry de Mortimer, late husband of the petitioner
Roger, Vicar of Frome
Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, Justice of Ireland
Archbishop of Canterbury.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1318 as the escheator was ordered to take Mortimer's lands into the king's hand on 25 October 1317, and the problems encountered by his widow must date to the following year or so (CFR 1307-19, p.343).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/319/E416

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5870
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), pp.343, 351-2 (order to the escheator to take Henry de Mortimer's lands into the king's hand, and order to deliver the same to Hugh, his son and heir, saving the petitioner's dower)
  • 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 petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106793/

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