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Joan de Newmarche (Newmarket), widow of Adam de Newmarche. de Newmarche (Newmarket)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/220/10961

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This record is about the Joan de Newmarche (Newmarket), widow of Adam de Newmarche. de Newmarche (Newmarket)... dating from [1290] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/220/10961
Date
[1290]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Newmarche (Newmarket), widow of Adam de Newmarche.
Name(s)
de Newmarche (Newmarket), Joan
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Joan, late the wife of Adam de Newmarche, requests remedy, stating that she has impleaded Constance de Bearn for her dower of certain property in Wheatley, but that Constance has claimed that she is unable to answer without the king, producing charters showing that Constance holds this land for life of the king's gift. She states that Freskenade will warrant the king for this, as he holds other lands of her late husband in Harwell and sold the lands concerned to the king, the charter of which is held by Normanville.
Nature of endorsement
Nottinghamshire.The petition of Joan who was the wife of Adam de Neufmarche.Before the lord king.The king wills that Constance answer for her dower, and she should have her recovery against the king.
Places mentioned
Westminster
Wheatley, Nottinghamshire
Harwell, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
Adam de Newmarche, late husband of the petitioner
Constance de Bearn
William de Freskenade
Thomas de Normanville.
Note
Assigned by PROME and Rot. Parl. to the Michaelmas parliament of 1290.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.62a (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.235 (full edition and translation of petition and associated documents, with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334520/

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