Catalogue description Petitioners: Richard Talbot, son of Gilbert Talebot (Talbot); Elizabeth Talbot, wife...

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Details of SC 8/163/8132
Reference: SC 8/163/8132
Description:
Petitioners: Richard Talbot, son of Gilbert Talebot (Talbot); Elizabeth Talbot, wife of Richard Talbot and heir of Aymer de Valence.
Name(s): Talbot; Talbot, Richard; Elizabeth
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Richard and Elizabeth Talbot, who was of age and able to inherit as allowed to her in Chancery after the death of Valence, request an inquiry and remedy against Hugh le Despenser the father and son who wrongly procured the king to put Elizabeth in ward and give her inheritance to them. They imprisoned her at Purbright and threatened her body so that she could never leave her prison or have her inheritance if she did not make them a recognisance of her manors of Goodrich and Painswick, and they brought a justice and made her say that she vouchsafed the manors to them.
Nature of endorsement: It has been answered elsewhere.
Places mentioned: Purefrithe (Purbright), Surrey; Goodrich, [Herefordshire]; March of Wales; Painswick, Gloucestershire.
People mentioned: Gilbert Talebot (Talbot), [father of the petitioner]; Aymer de Valence; Hugh le Despenser, the father; Hugh le Despenser, the son.
Note: Dated on the guard to? 1327, with reference to SC 8/160/7956 and SC 8/310/15484, and to? 1331, with reference to CPR 1330-4::p.51, a 1331 licence to petitioners re Goodrich and Painswick. Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, dates it to 1327-30 or 1331-39.
Date: [c. 1327-c. 1339]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/310/15484

For a related petition see SC 8/160/7956
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), pp.274-5 (summary of petition with references)

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