Catalogue description Petitioners: Eleanor de Ferrers. Name(s): de Ferrers, Eleanor Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/85/4216
Reference: SC 8/85/4216
Description:
Petitioners: Eleanor de Ferrers.
Name(s): de Ferrers, Eleanor
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The petitioner states that Earl William de Ferrers the elder married Anneys, daughter of Randolph, Earl of Chester, and that they had two sons, William and Thomas. Anneys gave her manor of Chartley to Thomas, who was seised of it until his brother William died. Robert, the next Earl impleaded him for it, but it the end an agreement was reached whereby Thomas would keep Chartley and have the homages and lordships of Sandon as well. Thomas died seised of these, and Eleanor, the petitioner, was endowed with the whole manor of Chartley. She was seised until the death of William le Botiler, one of the parceners, then Lord Edmund disseised her of it by force. As it is part of the inheritance of John de Ferrers, who is under age and in his keeping, so she asks the King that he might not be disinherited.
Nature of endorsement: Because Lord Edmund answers that he is seized of the fees, therefore she is to take action for herself by writ.
Places mentioned: Chartley, [Staffordshire]; Sandon, [Staffordshire].
People mentioned: William de Ferrers, Earl [of Derby], the elder; Anneys (Agnes) [de Ferrers], wife of William de Ferrers; Randolph, Earl of Chester; William [de Ferrers], Earl [of Derby], son of William and Anneys de Ferrers; Thomas [de Ferrers], son of William and Anneys de Ferrers; Robert [de Ferrers], Earl [of Derby]; William le Botiler; Edmund of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster; John de Ferrers.
Note: The petitioner is evidently Eleanor, widow of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and since Robert is referred to as having died recently, presumably the petition dates to shortly after his death in 1279. Given that the endorsement refers to a response from 'Lord Edmund', evidently Edmund of Lancaster, brother of Edward I, it must pre-date his death in 1296, and also clearly pre-dates John de Ferrers's coming of age in 1293 (Complete Peerage, V, p.306). The William le Botiler mentioned as having died may be the man of that name who died in 1283 (CIPM, vol.II, no.529).
Date: [1279-1293]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3531
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. II, 1-19 Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1906), no 529

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