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Margaret de Courtenay, Countess of Devon. de Courtenay, Countess of Devon Margaret...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/104/5167
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This record is about the Margaret de Courtenay, Countess of Devon. de Courtenay, Countess of Devon Margaret... dating from [c. 1385] 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 8/104/5167
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret de Courtenay, Countess of Devon.
- Name(s)
- de Courtenay, Countess of Devon, Margaret
- Addressees
- King and Parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks justice for the murder of her steward, Henry Tyrel, and shows that she is under the king's protection along with her servants, lands, tenements etc., as plainly appears in letters patent, because Asthorp plotted the murder of Tyrel and made other threats against him at Hemyock, on Tuesday before the feast of SS Simon and Jude, in a warlike manner with many miscreants, namely: Gloucester, Chester, Salesby, Lytelhikke, Springe, Bourne, Fraunceys and others to the number of forty conspirators, to raise treason against the king, of murder etc. None were opposed to them and so they went to kill him, as he could not be found outside his house, which they burned and into which they did not have the power to enter. Then Asthorp and many others to the number of twenty, with hauberks, helmets and other armour, and with horse and harness of the said William Asthorp, went up to the household of the said Henry Tyrol to carry out their threats, and for this they found the ... and they mistreated and wounded his servants while searching, and went to his household, assaulted his wife, wounded his servants, found and killed Henry.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Devon
- Hemyock, [Devon].
- People mentioned
- William Asthorp
- Henry Tyrel, Steward of the petitioner's lands in Devon
- Walter Gloucester
- Roger Chester
- William Salesby
- William called Lytelhikke
- Henry Springe
- Thomas Bourne
- Bertram le Fraunceys.
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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 2264
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149737/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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