Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster. Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster Katherine...

Petitioners

Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster.

Name(s)

Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, Katherine

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

[This petition is largely illegible.]Request from Katherine, widow of John, Duke of Guyenne and Lancaster, that she might have certain castles, honours manors, hundreds, wapentakes, rents, advowsons and other possessions, according to the tenor of a fine made in the King's twentieth year between Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry, Earl of Derby, John Bussy and Robert de Whitteby, plaintiffs, and herself and her husband, deforciants, and that she might have the issues and profits from them since the death of her husband.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] This bill was delivered . . . [None on dorse]

Places mentioned

Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Tickhill, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Staincliffe wapentake, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

York

Gringley, Nottinghamshire

Wheatley, Nottinghamshire

High Peak, Derbyshire

Pevensey, Sussex

Willingdon, Sussex

Maresfield, Sussex

Endlewick, Sussex

Ashdown, Sussex

Wilmington, Sussex

Withyham, Sussex

North Greenhoe hundred, Norfolk

North Erpingham hundred, Norfolk

South Erpingham hundred, Norfolk

Smithdon hundred, Norfolk

Wighton, Norfolk

Aylsham, Norfolk

Fakenham, Norfolk

Snettisham, Norfolk

Glatton, Huntingdonshire

Holme, Huntingdonshire.

People mentioned

John [of Gaunt], Duke of Guyenne, Duke of Lancaster

[William Thirning], justice

[Thomas Arundel], Archbishop of Canterbury

[Henry of Bolingbroke], Earl of Derby

John Bussy (Bushy)

Robert [de Whitteby (Whitby)]

Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York

Ralph de Ipre, knight

Thomas de Erpyngham, knight.

For a related petition see SC 8/188/9368

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1927), pp.365-366 (orders to the escheators to deliver these things to Katherine, Duchess of Lancaster)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.516 (confirmation of the petitioner's estate in these possessions, with the profits since the death of her husband)