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Margaret de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Edmund de Mortimer. de Mortemer (Mortimer)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/62/3076

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Reference
SC 8/62/3076
Date
[1322-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Margaret de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Edmund de Mortimer.
Name(s)
de Mortemer (Mortimer), Margaret
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
1) Mortemer requests that right be done to her and that she have restitution of the castle and manor of Bridgwater together with the issues from the time that they came into the king's hand. Mortemer was jointly enfeoffed with her husband of the castle and manor of Bridgwater and held it following her husband's death until Roger de Mortimer surrendered it to the will of the king and she was ousted. An inquisition has found that she was seised of the castle and manor at the time that it was taken into the king's hand.2) Mortimer requests right be done to her and restitution be made of her dower land of Gwerthrynion which was taken into the king's hand for the same reason.
Nature of endorsement
Let the inquisitions concerning the petition be brought before the council.
Places mentioned
Bridgwater, Somerset
Warthreygnon (Gwrtheyrnion) commote, [Radnorshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Edmund de Mortemer (Mortimer), late husband of the petitioner
Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer), son of Edmund de Mortimer.
Note
Must date from soon after one of the forfeitures of Margaret's son, Roger Mortimer, and almost certainly to his first forfeiture, in 1322. Margaret was committed to a nunnery in 1325, and thus the petition probably dates from between those two dates. 'Complete Peerage', ix, p.283. The dating in Rees, 'Petitions Relating to Wales', dating it to c.1304, is incorrect.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/127/6346

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/63/3110

For another petition by the same petition on the same matter see SC 8/61/3028

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5875
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.90 (full summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106839/

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