Catalogue description Petitioners: Margaret de Mortimer, widow of Edmund de Mortimer Name(s): de...

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Details of SC 8/127/6346
Reference: SC 8/127/6346
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret de Mortimer, widow of Edmund de Mortimer
Name(s): de Mortimer, Margaret
Addressees: [None specified]
Nature of request: Margaret de Mortimer makes two separate requests for the restoration of parts of her dower estates. She asks for the return of the manor and castle of Knucklas and the manor of Pilleth, now held by the Earl of Kent, and the land of Ceri, held by the Earl of Arundel.
Nature of endorsement: Assign people to enquire whether these lands were held as of her dower, and for what reason they were taken into the king's hands, and by whom, and when, and of whom they were held, and how much they are worth in all rents, and certify this to the king.Coram Rege.
Places mentioned: Knokelas (Knucklas, Cnwclas), [Radnorshire, Wales]; Pullith (Pilleth), [Radnorshire, Wales]; Kerry (Ceri) commote, [Montgomeryshire, Wales].
People mentioned: Edmund de Mortimer, late husband of the petitioner; [Edmund of Woodstock], Earl of Kent; [Edmund FitzAlan], Earl of Arundel.
Note: This appears to date to c. 1322-3, when Margaret submitted a number of petitions seeking to recover her dower estates.
Date: [c. 1322]
Related material:

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/268/13366

For another petition by the same petitioner on a similar matter see SC 8/156/7775

For another petition from Margaret seeking to recover her dower estates see SC 8/63/3110

For another petition from Margaret seeking to recover her dower estates see SC 8/62/3076

For another petition from Margaret seeking to recover her dower estates see SC 8/61/3028
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5830
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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