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

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Details of SC 8/156/7775
Reference: SC 8/156/7775
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret de Mortimer, widow of Edmund de Mortimer.
Name(s): de Mortimer, Margaret
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Mortimer requests that she be granted dower from the lands in which her husband died seised, and that she can have one of the three castles in the same lands as women of the family have had in the past.
Nature of endorsement: If her husband died seised in fee of three castles, let one of them be assigned in dower because they are in Wales.
Places mentioned: Wales.
People mentioned: Edmund de Mortimer, late husband of the petitioner.
Note: The petition probably dates to c. 1304 as the petitioner was a widow by 1304, and she is unlikely to have delayed long in pursuit of her dower (CPR 1301-7, p.245; CCW 1244-1326, pp.234, 238). It is quite likely that the petition dates to after 19 June 1305 when the petitioner was granted her dower (CCR 1302-7, p.274).
Date: [c. 1304]
Related material:

For a related document see SC 8/268/13366

For a related petition, see SC 8/127/6346

For a later petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/63/3110

For a later petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/62/3076

For a later petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/61/3028
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.260 (inaccurate calendar of petition)

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