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Isold de Alet, widow of Walter de Alet of Cornwall. de Alet Isold King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/318/E324

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Reference
SC 8/318/E324
Date
[c. 1312]
Description
Petitioners
Isold de Alet, widow of Walter de Alet of Cornwall.
Name(s)
de Alet, Isold
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Alet requests remedy as the earl of Cornwall ordered his steward to provide dower for her from the lands of her husband but he delayed until after the death of the earl to her great damage, the lands were then taken into the king's hand and the custody granted to Archdeacon during the minority of the heir and he grievously wasted the same to the damage of the petitioner and the disinheritance of the right heir.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Cornwall.
People mentioned
Walter de Alet of Cornwall
[Edmund of Almaigne], earl [of Cornwall]
Thomas de la Hide, steward of the earl [of Cornwall]
Thomas [le Ercedekne (Archdeacon)].
Note
The petition dates to c. 1312 in accordance with the dating of SC 8/318/E299 which concerns much the same matters relating to the same petitioner. In addition the petition refers to Easter in 5 Edw. II.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/318/E299

For a petition by Archdeacon in part on this matter, see SC 8/327/E796

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), pp.125, 141, 241 (orders to take the lands of Alet into the king's hands, grant of the wardship of the lands and marriage of the heirs to Thomas le Ercedekne)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.508 (grant of the wardship of the lands and marriage of the heirs to Thomas le Ercedekne)
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