Cecily de Beauchamp. de Beauchamp Cecily King. Cecily de Beauchamp requests compensation...

Petitioners

Cecily de Beauchamp.

Name(s)

de Beauchamp, Cecily

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Cecily de Beauchamp requests compensation be granted to her in England for her rights in County Kildare, which she and her sister inherited from her mother, Maud de Kyme, but from which she was ousted after the king granted the entire county to Thomas FitzJohn.

Nature of endorsement

The king intended to grant to Thomas only what was in his hands, and therefore she should have a writ in Chancery at the common law, and inform Thomas of the king's intentions, and that he should restore to Cecily anything she occupied.

Places mentioned

County Kildare, [Ireland].

People mentioned

Sibyl [de Rupe Canardi], [half] sister of the petitioner

Maud de Kyme, mother of the petitioner

Thomas FitzJohn [FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare].

For another petition from this petitioner on this matter see SC 8/1/40

For a later petition from the petitioner's son on this matter see SC 8/32/1571

For another petition from this petitioner see SC 8/2/72

For an earlier petition from this petitioner regarding these rights see SC 8/1/46

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.189 (earlier related order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Irish Exchequer on this matter)
• Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.15 (edition of response on parliament roll)
• 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.59 (brief calendar of petition)