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Robert de la Vale (Delaval). Vale (Delaval) Robert King and council. Vale requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/80/3994

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This record is about the Robert de la Vale (Delaval). Vale (Delaval) Robert King and council. Vale requests... dating from [c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/80/3994
Date
[c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de la Vale (Delaval).
Name(s)
Vale (Delaval), Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Vale requests that he be granted a portion of the victuals to sustain himself and to be taken at Newcastle for he was captured at the battle of Stirling and had to ransom himself for 500 marks, all his lands are destroyed and burnt, and he and his men defended Tynemouth priory against Middleton at his own cost.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Stirling (Bannockburn), [Stirlingshire, Scotland]
Tynemouth, [Northumberland]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
Gilbert de Middelton (Middleton).
Related material

For a related document, see SC 8/47/2306

For a related petition, see SC 8/47/2305

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8292
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.148 (no.122) (full edition of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.247 (grant of 40 tuns of wine for the relief of impoverished knights and others in Northumberland)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107771/

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