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Robert de Mounthaut (Monhaut), one of the heirs of Hugh Daubeney, Earl of Arundel....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/260/12974
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/260/12974
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Mounthaut (Monhaut), one of the heirs of Hugh Daubeney, Earl of Arundel.
- Name(s)
- de Mounthaut (Monhaut), Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Robert de Mounthaut states that during his time Hugh Daubeney, Earl of Arundel, held the entire earldom of Arundel from the King, and also held Kenninghall, Snettisham, Wymondham and Buckenham by the sergeanty of being the King's butler on the day of his coronation, and that after his death his inheritance was divided up between four sisters, so that Kenninghall and Snettisham came to the share of Roger de Mounthaut and his wife Cecily, whose heir Robert is, while Wymondham and Buckenham came to the share of Robert de Cateshale, whose heirs are under age. Robert was ready to perform his office at the late coronation, but the then Earl of Arundel was wrongly allowed to do it. He asks that he might perform this office at the forthcoming coronation.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Treasurer and Chamberlains are to be ordered to search the muniments concerning the office contained in the bill, and to inform the council of what they find.
- Places mentioned
- Kenninghall, Norfolk
- Snettisham, Norfolk
- Wymondham, Norfolk
- Buckenham, Norfolk.
- People mentioned
- Hugh Daubeney (d'Aubigny), Earl of Arundel
- Roger de Mounthaut (Monhaut)
- Cecily [de Mounthaut (Monhaut)], wife of Roger de Mounthaut
- Robert de Cateshale
- Henry Fitz Alan
- [Edmund Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel
- [Edward II], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The writ of Edward III sent as a result of this petition (quoted in piece 36 of SC 1/38) is dated to January in the first year of his reign (1327), and the response of the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer is dated 12 February (piece 36 of SC 1/38).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related memorandum concerning this and other related petitions, see SC 8/340/16045
For a rival petition concerning this sergeanty, see SC 8/266/13284
For the return from the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer regarding the petitioner's claim, see no.36 in SC 1/38
For a related petition concerning another coronation sergeanty, see SC 8/265/13230
For a related petition concerning another coronation sergeanty,, see no. 17 in C 81/136
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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)
- Early Coronation Records, H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Clarendon Press, 1936), pp.1-9 (discussion and full edition of petition and other related petitions and records)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516918/
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