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Roger de Chaundos (Chandos). de Chaundos (Chandos) Roger King. Chaundos requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/268/13366

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Reference
SC 8/268/13366
Date
[c. 1304]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Chaundos (Chandos).
Name(s)
de Chaundos (Chandos), Roger
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Chaundos requests grace and that he can have his common right as he has sued for the manors of Norton and Knighton against Margaret de Mortimer, but the justices have ceased the case because Mortimer has stated that the reversion of her dower pertains to the king.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Norton, [Radnorshire, Wales]
Knighton, [Radnorshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Margaret [de Mortimer], widow of Edmund de Mortimer
Roger de Mortimer.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1304 as the escheator beyond the Trent was commanded to deliver dower to Margaret de Mortimer in July and September of that year (CPR 1301-7, p.244; CCR 1302-7, pp.175-6).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/127/6346

For a petition by Margaret de Mortimer relating to her dower SC 8/61/3028

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.452 (very brief summary mistaking the identity of the petitioner)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.175-6 (order to deliver dower to Margaret de Mortimer)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.244 (order to deliver dower to Margaret de Mortimer)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517313/

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