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Llywelyn ap Griffin (ap Gruffudd) de Bromfeld (Bromfield). ap Griffin (ap Gruffudd)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/196/9770

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This record is about the Llywelyn ap Griffin (ap Gruffudd) de Bromfeld (Bromfield). ap Griffin (ap Gruffudd)... dating from [c. 1276-c. 1281] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/196/9770
Date
[c. 1276-c. 1281]
Description
Petitioners
Llywelyn ap Griffin (ap Gruffudd) de Bromfeld (Bromfield).
Name(s)
ap Griffin (ap Gruffudd) de Bromfeld (Bromfield), Llywelyn
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Llywelyn ap Griffin de Bromfeld (Bromfield) lists ways in which his plea in the parliament lately held at Oswestry was improperly handled, and asks that matters between him and the hundred of Oswestry might be dealt with either according to Welsh law, as has been granted to him in the past, or according to the ancient customs of his ancestors, possessors of Oswestry.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bromfield, [Shropshire]
Album Monasterium (Oswestry), [Shropshire]
Oswestry hundred, [Shropshire]
Ellesmere, [Cheshire]
Whittington, [Shropshire]
Knockin, [Shropshire].
People mentioned
Roger Extraneus (Lestrange, le Strange), bailiff of Oswestry
John Extraneus (Lestrange, le Strange) of Knockin
John Fitz Alan
Hywel ap Meuric (Meurig)
Walter de Bedewardyn
Walter de Hoptun (Hopton), justice
Roger de Mortuo Mari (Mortimer).
Note
Dated to c. 1276-c. 1281 by Petitions Relating to Wales pp.325-6, although the appointment of Walter de Hopton as justice on 11 June 1278 would suggest that this petition dates from around then.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/192/9564

For a petition from the petitioner's mother, see SC 8/262/13080

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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.325-6 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295658/

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