Catalogue description Petitioners: Isabella of Woodstock, Countess of Bedford. Name(s): Woodstock,...

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Details of SC 8/95/4710
Reference: SC 8/95/4710
Description:
Petitioners: Isabella of Woodstock, Countess of Bedford.
Name(s): Woodstock, Countess of Bedford, Isabella
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Isabella, Countess of Bedford, asks the King to give all the lordships, lands, tenements and other possessions taken into his hand when her husband, the Lord de Coucy, surrendered his homage to him, to certain friends of hers, to hold for term of life or according to the terms of the charters and letters patent she had for them, for her benefit.
Nature of endorsement: The response given in parliament to this petition is written on the schedule attached to this bill.
Places mentioned: Bedfordshire; Nottinghamshire; Lancashire; Yorkshire; Holderness, [East Riding of Yorkshire]; Isle of Wight, [Hampshire]; Kendal, [Westmorland]; Rochester, [Kent]; Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]; Watford, [Hertfordshire]; Richard's Castle, [Shropshire].
People mentioned: Edward [III], King of England; [Enguerrand (Ingelram)] de Coucy, husband of petitioner; Thomas de Courtenay; John Talbot of Richard's Castle; Philippa [de Coucy], daughter of petitioner; Thomas de Veer (Vere), Earl of Oxford; Robert [de Veer (Vere), Earl of Oxford]; Philippa [de Veer (Vere)], daughter of petitioner and wife of Robert de Veer.
Note: CPR 1377-81 pp.174-175 is dated 27 November 1377, and, as the names of the keepers are identical with those listed in SC 8/95/4711, would seem to be a response to this petition.
Date: [1377]
Related material:

For the list of keepers of the lands granted to the petitioner mentioned in the endorsement, see SC 8/95/4711
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 856
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.174-175 (provision of an income for the petitioner)

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