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Agnes de Valence. de Valence Agnes King. Agnes de Valence makes three requests:1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3816
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/77/3816
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agnes de Valence.
- Name(s)
- de Valence, Agnes
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Agnes de Valence makes three requests:1) She asks that she might have permission to send John her chaplain, Walter de Hountingfeud, and two men, Bartholomew and Wascun, who brought the news of her son's death to her, to Hainault: because the Count has seized his lands until certain people have been sent for her son and for her other son Baldwin.2) She requests a letter to the Count of Hainault telling him that Baldwin is alive and in good health, as otherwise no-one will be able to enter the lands which have fallen to him.3) She asks that she might be able to pay the sum the King wishes to levy from her in the name of barony in instalments, as she can have no access to her holdings outside England. She also asks that a letter concerning this money might be returned to her.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face, to the first] The King has granted it.[On face, to the second] The King has granted it.[On face, to the third] This cannot be granted now because of immediate necessity.[None on dorse.]
- Places mentioned
- Hainault.
- People mentioned
- John, chaplain of Agnes de Valence
- Walter de Hountingfeud (Huntingfield)
- Bartholomew
- Wascun (Vasco)
- John [de Beaumont], son of Agnes de Valence
- Baldwin [de Beaumont], son of Agnes de Valence
- [John de Avesnes], Count of Hainault.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1292-1301 p.290 is dated 2 July 1297, and would appear to be in response to this petition.
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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 8242
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.290 (notification that Baldwin de Beaumont is alive and in good health)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107590/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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