Benedict le Walche (Galche), son of Denise la Walche (Galche). Walche (Galche) Benedict...

Petitioners

Benedict le Walche (Galche), son of Denise la Walche (Galche).

Name(s)

Walche (Galche), Benedict

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Benedict, son of Denise la Walche, states that Anneys de Maddinggle gave Robert le Walche and Margaret his wife two messuages in the town of Cambridge, to them and to the heirs of their bodies, and if they died without heirs of their bodies, then to Robert's heirs. Robert died without an heir of his body, and Margaret then took a second husband and destroyed the charter for the grant; then she died. Benedict, Robert's kinsman and heir then brought a writ of formedon in the remainder against Magaret's second husband, but because the charter had been destroyed he could have no recovery. He requests a remedy, for himself and for others in a similar case.

Nature of endorsement

The action is invalid because the wife is dead.

Places mentioned

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

People mentioned

Denise la Walche (Galche)

Anneys de Maddinggle (Madingley)

Robert le Walche (Galche)

Margaret [la Walche (Galche)], wife of Robert le Walche (Galche).

For transcript, see no.41 of PRO 31/7/103

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.411a-b (no.142) (full edition of original 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 I, pp. 387-415, no. 142 (summary of references)