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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Roger de Mortimer, late Earl of March. de Mortemer...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8638
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This record is about the Joan de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Roger de Mortimer, late Earl of March. de Mortemer... dating from [1332] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/173/8638
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Roger de Mortimer, late Earl of March.
- Name(s)
- de Mortemer (Mortimer), Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mortemer requests that the king will have regard for the fact that she recovered her liberty of Trim by reversal of a judgment, restoring her to the estate that her and her ancestors had enjoyed prior to the suit of Edward II. Edward II had sued against her and her late husband while they were in prison that the liberty should be forfeit and the judgment had found them forfeit and the liberty was taken into the king's hand. In the first year of Edward III the liberty was restored by the king's grant and subsequently the judgment was reversed. Now the liberty has again been taken into the king's hand because all grants made before the king came to full power have been repealed. She further requests that the letters that her late husband took from the king to the prejudice of her right be annulled for all days.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should give security in Chancery and show there the letters, exemplifications, annulments and the record and process mentioned in the petition, and let her be fully restored to her liberties according to the tenor of the annulment notwithstanding the letters of gift of which this petition makes mention, which letters should be restored and annulled according to the request of the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Drogheda, [Ireland]
- Trim, [County Meath, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer), earl of March, late husband of the petitioner
- Edward II, King of England
- Geoffrey Lescrop (Scrope), then chief justice
- Anthony de Lucy, justice of Ireland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1332 as it clearly follows the fall of Roger de Mortimer in late 1330, and two successive justices of Ireland were ordered to restore the petitioner to the lordship of Trim in September and October 1332 (CCR 1330-3, pp.489, 503).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.489 & p.503 (orders to Anthony de Lucy and John Darcy, successive justices of Ireland, to deliver Trim to the petitioner)
- Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.56 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294504/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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