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Joan le Foun, widow of Richard le Foun. Foun Joan King and council. Foun requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/204/10197

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Reference
SC 8/204/10197
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Joan le Foun, widow of Richard le Foun.
Name(s)
Foun, Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Foun requests remedy as her first husband enfeoffed Bradbourne with the manor of Callow and Idridgehay mill and he granted it to her when she was Launde's wife. She continued to be seised by this feoffment for twenty years or more until after the death of her second husband when Beler took the manor and mill into the king's hand because her second husband had been the steward of the earl of Lancaster in his honour of Leicester for which reason he had been taken at Bradbourne to Caverswall Castle where he died.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let good people be assigned to enquire of the truth in the presence of Roger Beler, and let the inquisition be returned into Chancery, and let justice be done.2) Coram rege, Fulbourn.
Places mentioned
Callow, Derbyshire
Idridgehay, Derbyshire
Bradbourne, [Derbyshire]
Caverswall, [Staffordshire]
Leicester honour.
People mentioned
Richard le Foun, late second husband of the petitioner
John de la Launde, late first husband of the petitioner
John [de la Launde], son of John de la Launde
Henry de Bradebourne (Bradbourne)
[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster
Roger Beler.
Note
The petition dates to 1322 as the associated documents all date to May and August 1322, so that the petition must predate these, but postdate the fall of the earl of Lancaster (SC 8/203/10198-9) and the keeper of Richard le Foun's lands was ordered to restore them to the petitioner on 8 August 1322 (CCR 1318-23, p.589).
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/47/2339

Another petition relating to Foun's death is SC 8/127/6322

An inquisition related to SC 8/203/10126 is SC 8/203/10127

For the writ ordering the holding of this inquisition, see SC 8/204/10199

An inquisition relating to SC 8/234/11674 is SC 8/234/11676

A writ relating to SC 8/234/11674 is SC 8/234/11675

For an inquisition formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/204/10198

The writ ordering the holding of SC 8/203/10127 is SC 8/203/10128

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.589 (order to the keeper of the lands of Richard le Foun to deliver the land and mill to the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333752/

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