Catalogue description Petitioners: Hugh le Despenser, the elder. Name(s): Despenser, Hugh ...

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Details of SC 8/153/7633
Reference: SC 8/153/7633
Description:
Petitioners: Hugh le Despenser, the elder.
Name(s): Despenser, Hugh
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Despenser requests that he be discharged from the award of dower from the lands in Warwickshire that he holds with others during the minority of the earl of Warwick, the Zouches having sued for a third of the manor of Beoley in dower and being assigned money from the Warwickshire lands.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Beoley, Worcestershire; Warwickshire.
People mentioned: William la Zousche (Zouche); Alice [la Zousche (Zouche)], countess of Warwick; John [de Beauchamp], earl of Warwick, son of Guy de Beauchamp.
Note: The petition is dated to c. 1315-c. 1320 because Guy de Beauchamp died in 1315, and as this is a dispute concerning his widow's dower, a date range such as this seems most appropriate.
Date: [c. 1315-c. 1320]
Related material:

For a related document by the Zouches, see SC 8/153/7634

For transcript, see no.104 of PRO 31/7/95
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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