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Bledynet (Bleddyn) ap Pyll (Pill). ap Pyll (Pill) Bledynet (Bleddyn) King. The petitioner...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16037

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This record is about the Bledynet (Bleddyn) ap Pyll (Pill). ap Pyll (Pill) Bledynet (Bleddyn) King. The petitioner... dating from [? c. 1282] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/340/16037
Date
[? c. 1282]
Description
Petitioners
Bledynet (Bleddyn) ap Pyll (Pill).
Name(s)
ap Pyll (Pill), Bledynet (Bleddyn)
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petitioner asks the king to grant him the land that the Prince held at Mostyn, as the king granted it to him at Rhuddlan at the instance of the Prince in the presence of Hugh filius Hast', and on the day after this grant Hywel filius Gruffut forbad it to him.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Mostun (Mostyn), [Flintshire, Wales]
Rhuddlan, [Flintshire, Wales].
People mentioned
[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd], Prince of Wales
Hugh filius Hast'
Hywel filius Gruffut (ap Gruffydd).
Note
Very tentatively dated on the basis of the hand, the mention of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, who died in 1282, and of Hywel ap Gruffudd, who was granted the manor of Mostyn in 1278 (Petitions Relating to Wales p.505). Petitions Relating to Wales p.505, however, dates the petition to c. 1301-7, without explanation.
Related material

This petitioner apparently also appears in SC 8/120/6000

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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.505 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736518/

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