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Margaret Mareschal (Brotherton), Countess of Norfolk, Lady of Striguil. Mareschal...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/266/13282

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This record is about the Margaret Mareschal (Brotherton), Countess of Norfolk, Lady of Striguil. Mareschal... dating from [c. 1387] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/266/13282
Date
[c. 1387]
Description
Petitioners
Margaret Mareschal (Brotherton), Countess of Norfolk, Lady of Striguil.
Name(s)
Mareschal (Brotherton), Countess of Norfolk, Lady of Striguil, Margaret
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Mareschal requests that the commission made to occupy the stewardship of her lordship of Striguil be repealed, and that she be restored to her lordship over Magor and other vills as she has been ousted by the conspiracy of the escheator of Gloucestershire and people of Wales.
Nature of endorsement
[on face:]The king wills that right be done to the petitioner.[on dorse:] . . . day in the octave of St John the Baptist.
Places mentioned
Striguil lordship (Chepstow), [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Magor, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Redwick, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Porton, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Pwll, [Monmouthshire, Wales].
People mentioned
William de Hampton, escheator of Gloucestershire.
Note
The petition appears to date to c. 1387 as the claim of the petitioner to lordship over Magor and other vills was subject to an inquisition on 31 May 1387 (CIM 1377-88, no.373).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/130/6473

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.448 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. IV, 1-12 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1957), no.373 (inquisition finding that the petitioner had usurped royal liberties in the lordship referred to in the petition)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. V, 11-15 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1963), nos.205-6 (inquisitions held by the escheator of Gloucestershire and the steward of the court of Magor concerning acts by the countess and her officers and tenants)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.515 (pardon for wastes done to the earl of Pembroke's lands)
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