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Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare. FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/222/11066

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Reference
SC 8/222/11066
Date
[c. 1391]
Description
Petitioners
Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare.
Name(s)
FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, Gerald
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Earl of Kildare requests remedy, stating that William de Vessy held the lordship of Kildare, with various rights and franchises, but that it was seized by Edward I into his hands and granted by Edward II to John FitzThomas. The lordship and its franchises descended through the family to Maurice, his father, who held them for many years until the office of sheriff of Kildare and various other rights were seized into the king's hands by Ufford.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Kildare, [County Kildare], Ireland
County Kildare, Ireland.
People mentioned
William de Vessy (Vescy)
Edward I, King of England
Edward II, King of England
John FitzThomas [FitzGerald], Earl of Kildare
Thomas FitzJohn [FitzGerald], Earl of Kildare
Maurice [FitzThomas FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare]
Ralph Ufford, Justice of Ireland.
Note
Dated on the guard (and also by Connolly) to c. 1391, with reference to SC 8/249/12403, another petition on this matter which was formerly enclosed in a chancery warrant (C 81/527/7467) dated 22 June 1391. Presumably the present petition dated from around the same time.
Related material

For another petition from this petitioner on this same matter see SC 8/249/12403

For a chancery warrant with which that related petition was formerly enclosed, see no.7467 of C 81/527

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.259-61 (full edition of related petition and enclosed warrant)
  • 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.71 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334626/

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