Margaret de Mortimer, widow of Edmund de Mortimer de Mortimer Margaret [None specified]...

Petitioners

Margaret de Mortimer, widow of Edmund de Mortimer

Name(s)

de Mortimer, Margaret

Addressees

[None specified]

Nature of request

Margaret de Mortimer makes two separate requests for the restoration of parts of her dower estates. She asks for the return of the manor and castle of Knucklas and the manor of Pilleth, now held by the Earl of Kent, and the land of Ceri, held by the Earl of Arundel.

Nature of endorsement

Assign people to enquire whether these lands were held as of her dower, and for what reason they were taken into the king's hands, and by whom, and when, and of whom they were held, and how much they are worth in all rents, and certify this to the king.Coram Rege.

Places mentioned

Knokelas (Knucklas, Cnwclas), [Radnorshire, Wales]

Pullith (Pilleth), [Radnorshire, Wales]

Kerry (Ceri) commote, [Montgomeryshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Edmund de Mortimer, late husband of the petitioner

[Edmund of Woodstock], Earl of Kent

[Edmund FitzAlan], Earl of Arundel.

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/268/13366

For another petition from Margaret seeking to recover her dower estates see SC 8/61/3028

For another petition by the same petitioner on a similar matter see SC 8/156/7775