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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Maud de Burgh, Countess of Ulster. de Burgh, Countess of Ulster Maud King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/80/3971
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This record is about the Maud de Burgh, Countess of Ulster. de Burgh, Countess of Ulster Maud King and council.... dating from [1334] 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 8/80/3971
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Maud de Burgh, Countess of Ulster.
- Name(s)
- de Burgh, Countess of Ulster, Maud
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Places mentioned
- Ulster, [Ireland].
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged and missing a portion on its right-hand edge.] 1) The countess requests that she be put in possession of the dower lands assigned to her, and that she might be granted the custody of the remainder of the earl's other lands during the minority of the heir. 2) The countess further requests that she be granted an increase in the sum already granted to her for the maintenance of the heir.
- Nature of endorsement
- . . . third part of the issues of the lands and tenements which . . . lately her husband's, and which at his death . . . of the king exist from the time of the death of . . . of which writ the king is not answered and the issues . . . reasonable dower from the same lands and tenements . . . assigned to the same. 2) . . . nothing is to be done at present.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is likely to date to 1334 as another version of this petition was presented to the parliament in 8 Edward III, and the countess did receive an increase in her allowance for the maintenance of the heiress to the earldom of Ulster on 28 September 1334 (Rot. Parl., vol. II:: p.73b (no.2); CPR 1334-8, p.31).
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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 8258
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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 III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.31 (grant to the countess of Ulster of an increase in the sum allowed her for the maintenance of the earl of Ulster's heiress)
- 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.26 (brief calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.73b (no.2) (full edition of later copy of another version of this petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 2 (summary of references to related petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107747/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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