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

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)].

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

• 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)