Margaret de Multon, widow of Hubert de Multon. de Multon Margaret King and council....

Petitioners

Margaret de Multon, widow of Hubert de Multon.

Name(s)

de Multon, Margaret

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Multon requests that no seisin be delivered to William le Brun, and that the chancellor be warned that he should not deliver any seisin without warning Multon to show what she knows concerning the estate of the king and the heir of Hubert de Multon as the heir is under age and in the king's wardship. John de Multon the son and heir of Hubert de Multon and the petitioner is only 13 years of age and is in the king's keeping, but William le Brun, a bastard son of Multon by his cousin Ada, is claiming seisin of Hubert's lands and tenements in deceipt of the king.

Nature of endorsement

Let this petition be sent to the chancellor, and let it be enjoined to him that he is not to admit the heir apparent without a special order of the king.

Places mentioned

Gilsland, [Cumberland].

People mentioned

Hubert de Multon, late husband of the petitioner

John [de Multon], son and heir of Hubert de Multon

Thomas de Multon of Gilsland

William le Brun (Brown), bastard son of Hubert de Multon and Ada le Brun

Ada le Brun, mother of William le Brun.

For an almost identical petition with an additional clause appended to the end, see SC 8/61/3042

For an earlier related petition see no.54 in C 47/22/4

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.94-5 (full edition of near identical petition)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. III, 20-28-Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1912), no.594 (inquisition post mortem of Hubert de Multon)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.195a (Latin translation of petition on parliament roll)
• 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.37 (full edition and translation)