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Robert le Galicien and his relatives of Jersey. Galicien Robert King and Council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/266/13264
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/266/13264
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert le Galicien and his relatives of Jersey.
- Name(s)
- Galicien, Robert
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- Robert le Galicien, the son of Ralph le Galicien, with his coheirs of Jersey, requests the restoration of the marriage-portion formerly held by his late mother, recalling a dispute during the time of Otto de Grandison and that their claims to possession were found to be lawful by consultation of the rolls of Henry III. He requests that inquests be held in the parishes of St Martin de Groville and St Lawrence to establish that his mother died in possession of this property, and that restitution be made.
- Nature of endorsement
- Petitions of the men of the isle of Guernsey.Guernsey.The attorney of Otto, when questioned on the petition, stated that the king was seised of the said rent at the time when the islands were committed to Otto, and therefore etc. before the king [cancelled].Otto de Grandison or his lieutenant should be instructed to enquire into the matters contained in the petition, and to communicate the findings to the king without delay, etc. and justice be done to the petitioner accordingly.
- Places mentioned
- Jersey, [Channel Islands]
- St Martin de Grouville (Grouville) parish, [Jersey, Channel Islands]
- St Lawrence parish, [Jersey, Channel Islands]
- Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
- People mentioned
- Ralph le Galicien, father of the petitioner
- Joan [le Galicien], mother of the petitioner
- John Wiger
- Ralph de Brompton
- Otto de Grandison
- Henry III, King of England
- Philip Levesqe, knight, bailiff of Jersey
- Peter Darcy, bailiff of Jersey
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by PROME to the Lent parliament of 1305. The date given in 'Channel Islands Petitions' is evidently incorrect.
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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)
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- Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.24-25 (calendar of petition, wrongly dated)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.51 (edition of enrolled response to petition)
- 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), Lent 1305 Channel Islands membrane, appendix, no.12 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517211/
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