Hugh de Curteney (Courtenay), son and heir of Hugh de Curteney (Courtenay). de Curteney...

Petitioners

Hugh de Curteney (Courtenay), son and heir of Hugh de Curteney (Courtenay).

Name(s)

de Curteney (Courtenay), Hugh

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Hugh de Curteney states that while he was underage and in the King's wardship after his father's death, Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale and of Devon, whose heir he is, died. And the King gave him the lands that were his father's and some of the Countess' lands, but some of the Countess' lands he withheld and still withholds, namely the Isle of Wight and Christchurch in Hampshire, Vauxhall in Surrey and the honour of Walbrook in London, of which the King falsely claims to have been enfeoffed by the Countess. Hugh will suffer this at present, and asks the King to be advised and to do justice to him on another occasion when he understands better. But as for the manors of Breamore and Lymington in Hampshire, and Honiton in Devon, of which the Countess died seised in her demesne as in fee, have nothing to do with these other lands, Hugh asks that as he is of age and has done homage to the King, and as the King has no title to them, the King might give them to him as the Countess' next heir. He also asks that, as the Countess' next heir, he might have the manors of Upper Heyford and Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, Pishiobury and Sawbridgeworth in Essex, Harewood and Kirkby Overblow in Yorkshire, and the advowson of the church of Brigham in Cumberland, as the King has seized these lands only because of his minority. And he will be prepared to answer to all those who wish to claim right in them.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Isle of Wight, Hampshire

Christchurch, Hampshire

Vauxhall, Surrey

Walbrook, London

Breamore, Hampshire

Lymington, Hampshire

Honiton, Devon

Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire

Neuham (Nuneham Courtenay), Oxfordshire

Pisheburi (Pishiobury), [Hertfordshire]

Sebrighteworthi (Sawbridgeworth), [Hertfordshire]

Essex

Harewood, [West Riding of] Yorkshire

Kirkby Overblow, [West Riding of] Yorkshire

Brigham, Cumberland.

People mentioned

Hugh de Curteney (Courtenay), father of the petitioner

Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale and Devon.

For another petition by the petitioner's son on the same matter see SC 8/13/606

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/99/4923

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/82/4087

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/3/101

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.145 (mandate to the Chancellor and others of the council to advise the King on this matter)
• 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), parliament of January 1316, item 1 (proceedings in parliament on Hugh de Courtenay's claim to the Isle of Wight, Christchurch and Vauxhall)