Mary (Marie) de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of...

Petitioners

Mary (Marie) de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke.

Name(s)

de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, Mary (Marie)

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Mary, widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, makes two requests:1) She states that she has sued in Chancery and parliament to have her dower from the lands and tenements in Monmouthshire of which her husband died seised, which he had of the king's gift by his charter, as can be seen from the rolls of Chancery, but, although an adequate inquisition was held, Robert de Baldok, then Chancellor, refused to give this to her without seeing the original charter, which it was not his business to have. She asks that when the inquisition has been examined, and the tenor of the charter on the rolls of Chancery if necessary, she may have her dower.2) She also requests her dower from Hertford and Haverfordwest, which she could not have because Hugh le Despenser refused to allow inquisitions to be held after her husband's death because he coveted the said places himself, and because Robert de Baldok refused to receive her to claim her dower without seeing the original charter for these lands, which it was not his business to have.

Nature of endorsement

With regard to the first petition: it is to be done as is requested by the same petition.With regard to the second: the rolls of Chancery are to be searched, and if no inquisition has been returned, a writ of inquiry is to be issued; and when the inquisition has been returned, and the rolls of Chancery have been examined, justice is to be done there.

Places mentioned

Monmouthshire, [Wales]

Hertford, [Hertfordshire]

Haverfordwest, [Pembrokeshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke

Robert de Baldok (Baldock), Chancellor of England

Hugh le Despenser.

For a copy of a related charter, see SC 8/294/14690

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.109 (enrolment of release by the petitioner of these lands)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.37 (grant of lands to the petitioner in exchange for her release of Hertford, Haverford, and other manors)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1364-1367, (Public Record Office, 1913), pp.275-276 (enrolment of this petition and of related documents)
• Mary de Sancto Paulo, Foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge, H. Jenkinson, (, 1915), p.438 (edition of petition)