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John Fitz Simon. Fitz Simon John King and council. Fitz Simon requests remedy and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/73/3648
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This record is about the John Fitz Simon. Fitz Simon John King and council. Fitz Simon requests remedy and... dating from [c. 1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/73/3648
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Fitz Simon.
- Name(s)
- Fitz Simon, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Fitz Simon requests remedy and that he be regranted the manors of Diamor and Kildalkey which Mortimer granted to him to hold for his life and that of his brother, and which Mortimer had of the gift of the king, and after which Mortimer imprisoned him in Dover castle until he rendered the manors and the charters to him which he did to escape his peril.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should wait.
- Places mentioned
- Demor (Diamor), [County Meath, Ireland]
- Kildalkey, [County Meath, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mortimer
- Laurence [Fitz Simon], brother of the petitioner
- Walter de Lacy
- Edward de Brus (Bruce)
- Lord Percy
- Lord Ufford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is likely to date to 1324 as the petitioner was given a pardon and restitution for his lands for his rebellion on 1 April 1324. The events in the petition refer back to the invasion of Ireland by Edward Bruce in 1315. Bruce was killed in October 1318, and the forfeiture of Walter de Lacy, his ally, must have occurred at about this time. Mortimer's alleged imprisonment and attempt to force the petitioner to surrender his manors can be no later than 1322, and if the petitioner was also a rebel, he is unlikely to have been able to recover the lands referred to here until after his pardon. However, it does seem strange that the petitioner should need a pardon in 1324 for his rebellion if he was also a victim of one of the leading rebels, Roger de Mortimer.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/112/5570
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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 7347
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.406 (pardon to the petitioner as a rebel with restitution of his lands)
- 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.25 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107422/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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