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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William ap Grifin (ap Gruffudd) and his brother, the king's faithful barons of Edeirnion....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/341/16054
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This record is about the William ap Grifin (ap Gruffudd) and his brother, the king's faithful barons of Edeirnion.... dating from [? c. 1277] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/341/16054
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1277]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William ap Grifin (ap Gruffudd) and his brother, the king's faithful barons of Edeirnion.
- Name(s)
- ap Grifin (ap Gruffudd), William
- Addressees
- [Not specified].
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly faded] William ap Grifin and his brother, the king's faithful barons of Edeirnion make two requests:1) Concerning their men and their possessions of [nine minims: probably a place-name] as they more fully had from the prince and from the king's relatives.2) They ask to be defended from Reginald de Grey, and that the men of Penllyn might be ordered not to harass them unduly because of the booty that their men received in time of war.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Edeirnion, [Merioneth, Wales]
- Penllyn, [Merioneth, Wales].
- People mentioned
- [Llywelyn ap Gruffudd], Prince of Wales
- Reginald de Grey.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated on the guard to c. 1277, although the mention of war and of Reginald de Grey, who was granted the castle of Ruthin in October 1282, might rather suggest a date in the 1280s, perhaps after Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's death in 1282.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736535/
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