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Eleanor de Multon, widow of Thomas de Multon of Egremont. de Multon Eleanor King....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/61/3044

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Reference
SC 8/61/3044
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Eleanor de Multon, widow of Thomas de Multon of Egremont.
Name(s)
de Multon, Eleanor
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Multon requests that the king state his will on the marriage between her son and Joan, daughter of Piers de Gaveston, and that he will grant the keeping of two parts of the land which were her late husband's in Cumberland until the heir comes of age, rendering the annual value as returned at Chancery. She further petitions that she can have the custody of the houses of the castle to sustain it as it has become ruinous.[Deleted] Multon requests that she can have the care of her daughter until he has ordained his will.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Egremont, [Cumberland].
People mentioned
John [de Multon], son and heir of the petitioner
Joan [de Gavaston], daughter of Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall
Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall
Thomas de Multon, late husband of the petitioner.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1322. The IPM for the petitioner's husband was held in February 1322. Multon's dower was assigned on 4 April 1322, and the petition clearly suggests that the dowery was in her hands as she requests the custody of the other two thirds of her late husband's land (CIPM, vol. VI, p.198-9). As the custody of the castle of Egremont was granted on 25 May 1322, it seems that the petition may well predate this, though this is by no means certain (CFR 1319-27, p.132).
Related material

For a duplicate of this petition without the erasure of the last clause, and differently endorsed see SC 8/280/13987

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5663
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.98-9 (no.65) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106807/

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