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Joan de Valence, Lady of Haverford. de Valence, Lady of Haverford Joan King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/152/7553

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Reference
SC 8/152/7553
Date
[1296-1307]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Valence, Lady of Haverford.
Name(s)
de Valence, Lady of Haverford, Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The petition is in parts illegible and the sense of the petition is difficult to recover].1) Valence requests remedy as she was seised of the jurisdiction of the barony of Haverford . . . but is has come into the hand of the queen, the ministers of the queen disseising her of the jurisdiction by their power.2) She requests remedy concernining a similar disseisin of her jurisdiction in Uzmaston and elsewhere in Pembrokeshire.3) She requests remedy as she has been disseised of the profits that she took from the port of Milford by the queen's bailiffs.
Nature of endorsement
She should sue a writ in Chancery . . . to answer coram rege at a certain day.
Places mentioned
Haverfordwest, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Uzmaston, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Haroldston, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Sandy Haven, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Little Hoaten, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Keeston, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Rosemarket, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Mount, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Bicton, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Mulock
[Pembrokeshire, Wales]
Milford Haven, [Pembrokeshire, Wales].
People mentioned
[Margaret of France], Queen of England.
Note
The petition dates to 1296-1307 as the petitioner's husband died in 1296, and she died in 1307 (The Complete Peerage, vol. X, p.381).
Related material

For a petition by the burgesses of Haverford complaining of the earl and his wife, see SC 8/61/3017

For another petition by the burgesses of Haverfordwest complaining of an earlier earl, see SC 8/219/10932

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.251-2 (partial edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209740/

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