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Aline de Mounbray (Mowbray), widow of John de Mowbray. de Mounbray (Mowbray) Aline...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8631

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Reference
SC 8/173/8631
Date
[c. 1327]
Description
Petitioners
Aline de Mounbray (Mowbray), widow of John de Mowbray.
Name(s)
de Mounbray (Mowbray), Aline
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Mounbray requests that the record and process be brought into parliament and the errors are able to be viewed and the judgment [reversed] so that she is able to enjoy her purchase of the land of Gower. She and her late husband bought the land of Gower from Braose but Despenser, after his exile had Aline imprisoned in the Tower, and the land of Gower seized, and forced the lady de Burgh to accept Gower in exchange for Usk, and by a fraudulent assize of novel disseisin has disseised the lady de Burgh, Aline, her son and the earl of Gloucester.
Nature of endorsement
She should have a writ in Chancery to make the record and process be brought before the council.
Places mentioned
Gower, [Glamorgan, Wales]
Usk, [Monmouthshire, Wales].
People mentioned
William de Brewosa (Braose)
Earl of Hereford
John de Mounbray (Mowbray), late husband of the petitioner
Hugh le Despenser, the son
Lady de Burgh
John de Mounbray (Mowbray), son of the petitioner.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1327 as it is clearly made after the accession of Edward III, the petition referring to the youger Despenser as 'le malveis tretre Hugh le Despencier le Fyz', a description that would not have been used prior to the Despensers' fall.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/36/1763

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.292-3 (full calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294497/

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