Catalogue description Petitioners: Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster. Name(s): Swynford,...

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Details of SC 8/256/12758
Reference: SC 8/256/12758
Description:
Petitioners: Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster.
Name(s): Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, Katherine
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: [This petition is largely illegible.]Request from Katherine, widow of John, Duke of Guyenne and Lancaster, that she might have certain castles, honours manors, hundreds, wapentakes, rents, advowsons and other possessions, according to the tenor of a fine made in the King's twentieth year between Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry, Earl of Derby, John Bussy and Robert de Whitteby, plaintiffs, and herself and her husband, deforciants, and that she might have the issues and profits from them since the death of her husband.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] This bill was delivered . . . [None on dorse]
Places mentioned: Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Tickhill, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Staincliffe wapentake, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; York; Gringley, Nottinghamshire; Wheatley, Nottinghamshire; High Peak, Derbyshire; Pevensey, Sussex; Willingdon, Sussex; Maresfield, Sussex; Endlewick, Sussex; Ashdown, Sussex; Wilmington, Sussex; Withyham, Sussex; North Greenhoe hundred, Norfolk; North Erpingham hundred, Norfolk; South Erpingham hundred, Norfolk; Smithdon hundred, Norfolk; Wighton, Norfolk; Aylsham, Norfolk; Fakenham, Norfolk; Snettisham, Norfolk; Glatton, Huntingdonshire; Holme, Huntingdonshire.
People mentioned: John [of Gaunt], Duke of Guyenne, Duke of Lancaster; [William Thirning], justice; [Thomas Arundel], Archbishop of Canterbury; [Henry of Bolingbroke], Earl of Derby; John Bussy (Bushy); Robert [de Whitteby (Whitby)]; Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York; Ralph de Ipre, knight; Thomas de Erpyngham, knight.
Note: CPR 1396-9 p.516 is dated 9 March 1399, and is clearly in response to this petition.CCR 1396-9 pp.365-366 is also dated 9 March 1399.
Date: [1399]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/188/9368
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, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1927), pp.365-366 (orders to the escheators to deliver these things to Katherine, Duchess of Lancaster)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.516 (confirmation of the petitioner's estate in these possessions, with the profits since the death of her husband)

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