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Robert de Cotegrave. de Cotegrave Robert King and council. Cotegrave requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/318/E355

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Reference
SC 8/318/E355
Date
[1318-1319]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Cotegrave.
Name(s)
de Cotegrave, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Cotegrave requests that for the estate of the king that he is maintained in possession of the church of Termonfeckin which was granted to him by Archbishop Jorz after a predecessor of the archbishop recovered it from the prior and convent of Louth, as the archbishop and prior are now colluding to remove him by suit of the prior by a bull 'post iter arreptum' and by judgment of a judge sub-delegate which would deprive the king of his right to presentation in times of vacancy in the archbishopric.
Nature of endorsement
Petition of Cotegrave for the king and himself.Northburgh.
Places mentioned
Armagh diocese, [Ireland]
Termonfeckin, [County Louth, Ireland]
Louth, [County Louth, Ireland].
People mentioned
Prior and convent of Louth
Roland [Jorz], Archbishop of Armagh
Northburgh (Northborough).
Note
The petition is dated to 1318-1319 because this petition appears to be part of an original file of that date (see the dating of SC 8/318/E340).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, vol. II , ed. W.H. Bliss, (, 1985), p.219 (mandate to the bishops of Meath, Down and Clonmacnoise to enquire into the charges made against the archbishop of Armagh, including the giving of the church of Termonfeckin to the petitioner)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.108-9 (no.148) (full edition of petition)
  • Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.99 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529407/

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