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Joan Beauchampe (Beauchamp), Lady Bergavenny. Beauchampe (Beauchamp), Lady Bergavenny...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/295/14702

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Reference
SC 8/295/14702
Date
[c. 1431]
Description
Petitioners
Joan Beauchampe (Beauchamp), Lady Bergavenny.
Name(s)
Beauchampe (Beauchamp), Lady Bergavenny, Joan
Addressees
Duke of Gloucester, Guardian of England, and council.
Nature of request
Joan Beauchampe, Lady Bergavenny, states that on 17 March in the king's ninth year, she was travelling from London to her home in Harvington, and was ill at Birmingham, Edmund, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, attacked her and her servants with a large number of men of his affinity, arrayed for war and in the manner of an insurrection, against the king's peace, laws and statutes, severely wounded several of her servants with arrows, and killed John Brydde, one of her valets de chamber. She requests a writ summoning Edmund before the Guardian and council, to be examined on these things and to have justice done to him. She also asks that he might give a surety to keep the peace towards the petitioner and her servants, and all the king's other lieges, and not to take part in any assembly, insurrection or riot, contrary to the king's laws and statutes. She also requests writs to the sheriffs of Warwickshire and Staffordshire to proclaim the summons issued to Edmund.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Harvington, Worcestershire
Birmingham, Warwickshire
Staffordshire.
People mentioned
[Humphrey of Lancaster] Duke of Gloucester, Guardian of England
Edmund [Ferrers], Lord Ferrers of Chartley
John Brydde, valet de chamber of Joan Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny.
Note
Datable to c. 1431 by the reference to 17 March, 9 Henry VI (1431). A related petition and legal process, concerning an accusation of assault made against Joan, for an attack at Birmingham on the same day, is found on pp.410a-413b of Rot. Parl. vol.IV.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.410a-413b (enrolment of related petition and process on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735865/

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