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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Cuntessa, [Countess of Loretto], widow of Roger de Clifford. Countess of Loretto,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/219/10916
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This record is about the Cuntessa, [Countess of Loretto], widow of Roger de Clifford. Countess of Loretto,... dating from [1290] 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 8/219/10916
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Cuntessa, [Countess of Loretto], widow of Roger de Clifford. Countess of Loretto, "Countess"
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The countess, late the wife of Roger of Clifford, requests the king's grace, stating that she has been grievously distrained by the sheriffs for various debts of her husband, but that she is not his heir, and only holds what the king has granted to her for life, and is unable to render the debts.
- Nature of endorsement
- Herefordshire and Warwickshire. The petition of the lady Cuntessa who was the wife of lord Roger de Clifford. For her dower she is to be quit of debts unless she is executrix. And for the other lands which she had she is to answer ....
- People mentioned
- Roger de Clifford, late husband of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1290 in Rot. Parl., Vol. I, p.53a. The petitioner's name is given as 'Cuntasse' in the original petition and as 'Coutassa' in the parliament roll entry given in Rot. Parl.
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.53a (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no.105 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334475/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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