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Mary de Brewose (Braose), widow of William de Braose. de Brewose (Braose) Mary King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/327/E840

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This record is about the Mary de Brewose (Braose), widow of William de Braose. de Brewose (Braose) Mary King... dating from [? c. 1300-? c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/327/E840
Date
[? c. 1300-? c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Mary de Brewose (Braose), widow of William de Braose.
Name(s)
de Brewose (Braose), Mary
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Brewose requests remedy as Roche took Seynt Owayn who held the manor of Clapham from her by homage and by the service of a knight, Roche holding no lands in England by which he can answer her, but only in Carmarthenshire where the king's writ does not run.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Clapham, Sussex
Carmarthenshire, Wales.
People mentioned
Thomas de la Roche
John [de Seynt Owayn], son and heir of Ralph de Seynt Owayn
[John de] Foxle (Foxley).
Note
The petition is dated to? c. 1300-? c. 1320 on the basis of the hand. The petitioner was widowed in 1290 and survived until 1326 (The Complete Peerage, II, p. 302).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/36/1758

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.524 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.467, 562 (references to the petitioner and her dower lands)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.345a-b (no.32) (transcript of another petition by the same petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682835/

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