Catalogue description Petitioners: Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln. Name(s): de Lacy, Countess of...

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Details of SC 8/64/3163
Reference: SC 8/64/3163
Description:
Petitioners: Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln.
Name(s): de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, Alice
Addressees: King and council
Nature of request: Lacy requests that a speedy remedy be ordained for her so that she may be at her own will and amongst her friends, as she has been ravished by Frene, who has taken her from her castle of Bolingbroke and is detained by him in the Tower of London.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Bolingbroke, [Lincolnshire]; Somerton, [Lincolnshire]; London.
People mentioned: Hugh de Frene; John de Lacy, brother of the petitioner.
Note: The petition apparently dates to c. 1335. In the Complete Peerage it is noted that Lacy was abducted by Freyne and consented to live with him in matrimony by 23 March 1336, and Freyne was dead by January 1337 at the latest (Complete Peerage, VII, p.687)
Date: [c. 1335]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 4889
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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