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Maud de Holland, former wife of Robert de Holland. de Holland Maud King. Maud de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/117/5806

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Reference
SC 8/117/5806
Date
[c. 1328-c. 1329]
Description
Petitioners
Maud de Holland, former wife of Robert de Holland.
Name(s)
de Holland, Maud
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Maud de Holland asks that the king recover lands formerly in his hands due to the capture and imprisonment of her husband, so that she can recover her own rights in these lands. On her husband's capture, the lands (of which she was jointly enfeoffed) were taken into the king's hands, but were then occupied by force by others. She also asks for the restitution of land in Lancashire and Derbyshire, now in the hands of the Earl of Lancaster, which are the inheritance of her son.
Nature of endorsement
[Partially obscured by repair]She should show her charters in Chancery, and let a search into this matter be made in Chancery and elsewhere to see how the lands came to the king, and if it is found that they came him by a reason other than that given by her, and if those who now hold the lands entered into them without livery, then they should be taken back into the king's hands, and right be done to her.
Places mentioned
West Derby, Lancashire
River Ribble, [Lancashire]
River Mersey, [Lancashire]
Kellet, [Lancashire]
Torrisholme, [Lancashire]
Derbyshire
Yoxhall, Staffordshire
Melbourne, [Derbyshire].
People mentioned
Robert de Holland, late husband of the petitioner
Edward [II], King of England
Isabella [of France], Queen of England
[Henry of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster
Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1328 on the basis of CFR 1327-37, p.117, a grant to Maud of the marriage of her son. This is not directly connected with the petition, but probably dates to that same period. Her husband, a prominent follower of Thomas of Lancaster who later deserted, was murdered on 15 October 1328.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4291
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.117 (grant to Maud de Holland of the marriage of her son, Robert)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150481/

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