Document 1/27/0 (CDS, ii, no. 1066)
- Description
- The king commands his lieges Patrick, earl of Dunbar, and John of Kingston, constable of Edinburgh Castle, to inquire by a jury of Berwick, Roxburgh and Edinburgh into charges brought by Joanna de Clare, countess of Fife against Herbert de Morham of Scotland, that is, that while she and her retinue under the king’s safe conduct were on their way to England, he laid wait for them between Stirling and Edinburgh, and took her by force to his brother Thomas’s house of Gertranky, where he imprisoned her because she would not consent to marriage with him, under her oath to the king not to marry without his licence, and seized her jewels, horses, robes and goods, to the value of £2,000, to her grave loss and scandal, and in contempt of the king, who is greatly commoved thereat. They are to make the inquiry in presence of the accused persons, Herbert being brought under safe conduct from Edinburgh Castle to the trial, and taken back at its close.
- Firm date
- 22 April 1299
- Place date (modern)
- Westminster
- Related Place
- Westminster
- Source for Data Entry
- CDS, ii, no. 1066
- Trad. ID
- CDS, ii, no. 1066
- Calendar number
- 1/27/None
- Charter type
- Brieve
- Language
- Entered from an English summary