Catalogue description Petitioners: Cuntessa, [Countess of Loretto], widow of Roger de Clifford. Countess of...

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Details of SC 8/219/10916
Reference: SC 8/219/10916
Description: Countess of Loretto, "Countess"
Petitioners: Cuntessa, [Countess of Loretto], widow of Roger de Clifford.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The countess, late the wife of Roger of Clifford, requests the king's grace, stating that she has been grievously distrained by the sheriffs for various debts of her husband, but that she is not his heir, and only holds what the king has granted to her for life, and is unable to render the debts.
Nature of endorsement: Herefordshire and Warwickshire. The petition of the lady Cuntessa who was the wife of lord Roger de Clifford. For her dower she is to be quit of debts unless she is executrix. And for the other lands which she had she is to answer ....
People mentioned: Roger de Clifford, late husband of the petitioner.
Note: Dated to 1290 in Rot. Parl., Vol. I, p.53a. The petitioner's name is given as 'Cuntasse' in the original petition and as 'Coutassa' in the parliament roll entry given in Rot. Parl.
Date: [1290]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.53a (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no.105 (full edition and translation of petition)

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