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Richard Talbot, son of Gilbert Talebot (Talbot); Elizabeth Talbot, wife of Richard...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/163/8132

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This record is about the Richard Talbot, son of Gilbert Talebot (Talbot); Elizabeth Talbot, wife of Richard... dating from [c. 1327-c. 1339] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/163/8132
Date
[c. 1327-c. 1339]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Talbot, son of Gilbert Talebot (Talbot); Elizabeth Talbot, wife of Richard Talbot and heir of Aymer de Valence.
Name(s)
Talbot; Talbot, Richard; Elizabeth
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Richard and Elizabeth Talbot, who was of age and able to inherit as allowed to her in Chancery after the death of Valence, request an inquiry and remedy against Hugh le Despenser the father and son who wrongly procured the king to put Elizabeth in ward and give her inheritance to them. They imprisoned her at Purbright and threatened her body so that she could never leave her prison or have her inheritance if she did not make them a recognisance of her manors of Goodrich and Painswick, and they brought a justice and made her say that she vouchsafed the manors to them.
Nature of endorsement
It has been answered elsewhere.
Places mentioned
Purefrithe (Purbright), Surrey
Goodrich, [Herefordshire]
March of Wales
Painswick, Gloucestershire.
People mentioned
Gilbert Talebot (Talbot), [father of the petitioner]
Aymer de Valence
Hugh le Despenser, the father
Hugh le Despenser, the son.
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1327, with reference to SC 8/160/7956 and SC 8/310/15484, and to? 1331, with reference to CPR 1330-4::p.51, a 1331 licence to petitioners re Goodrich and Painswick. Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, dates it to 1327-30 or 1331-39.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/160/7956

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.274-5 (summary of petition with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293977/

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