Catalogue description Petitioners: Joan le Foun, widow of Richard le Foun. Name(s): Foun, Joan ...

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Details of SC 8/203/10126
Reference: SC 8/203/10126
Description:
Petitioners: Joan le Foun, widow of Richard le Foun.
Name(s): Foun, Joan
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Le Foun requests remedy as the land that her late husband held in Yeaveley of Hugh de Meynel which should have come to her as nearest relative of Richard son and heir of Richard le Foun who is below age, her husband having died in prison without being attainted of any trespass against the king, have been seized into the king's hand because her late husband was the earl of Lancaster's steward of the honour of Leicester.
Nature of endorsement: Let certain people be assigned to enquire of certain things contained in these petitions in due form in the presence of the keeper of the lands, and let the inquisition be returned and justice done.
Places mentioned: Yeaveley, [Derbyshire]; Leicester honour.
People mentioned: Richard le Foun, late husband of the petitioner; Hugh [de Meynel], son of Hugh de Meynel; Richard [le Foun], son and heir of Richard le Foun; Thomas of Lancaster, earl of Lancaster.
Note: The petition is dated to 1322 on the basis of the entry ordering the restoration of the lands to the petitioner dating to 8 August 1322 (CCR 1318-23 pp.589-590).
Date: [1322]
Related material:

An inquisition relating to SC 8/234/11674 is SC 8/234/11676

A writ relating to SC 8/234/11674 is SC 8/234/11675

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/234/11674

The writ ordering the holding of this inquisition is SC 8/204/10199

An inquisition held as the result of SC 8/204/10197 is SC 8/204/10198

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/204/10197

For the writ ordering the holding of this inquisition, see SC 8/203/10128

For the inquisition relating to this petition, see SC 8/203/10127

Another petition relating to Foun's death is SC 8/127/6322

For a near duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/47/2339
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.589-590 (for several entries for the restoration of the goods and lands to the petitioner including the land referred to in this petition)

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