1328 On September 12, the court in Cardiff granted Roger de Berkeroles a license. [1]
The record preserved is of its meeting as the 'Curia Comitatus,' at Cardiff, on Monday, 12th September, 1328, to grant to Roger de Berkeroles, a license to alienate to Wladousa, daughter of Richard Syward, the younger, a tenement in Merthyr Mawr.
1349/50 Roger Berkeroles was a justice of oyer and terminer in Glammorgan and Morgannogh. [2]
Feb. 27. Westminster. To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, the elder, keeper of two parts of the lands which belonged to Hugh le Despenser, who held in chief in Glammorgan and Morgannogh in Wales or to him who supplies his place there. Whereas the king granted the said custody to him to hold with the lordships, royalties, liberties and other appurtenances from 8 February last until Hugh's heir should come of age, for rendering a certain thing yearly to the king, and now the king has learned that Bartholomew intends to proceed to annul divers processes held before John Golafre, Roger Berkeroles and Richard de Acton, justices of oyer and terminer in the said lands of Glammorgan and Morgannogh, in the king's hand by reason of the minority of the said heir, before the said 8 February, pretending that there were divers errors therein: the king therefore orders him to supersede such process made by him or his ministers concerning those errors, revoking anything which he may have done in the matter, as any errors ought to be amended and determined before the king or the justices appointed by his commission, and not elsewhere. By C.
1351 Roger Berkerole died on November 12. [3]
16. Roger de Berkeroles or Roger de Berkeroles, knight.
Writ of amotus, 11 March, 26 Edward III.
Gloucester and the adjacent March of Wales. Inq. taken at Kerdif, Monday, 19 March, 26 Edward III.
Est Orchard. The manor (extent given) held of the heir of Hugh le Despenser, a minor. The said manor is held of the lord of Kerdyf, a minor, by the services of a knight's fee, rendering yearly to the ward of the castle of Kerdyf 8s. 8d.
What he held of other lords the jury know not.
He died on Saturday after St. Martin, 25 Edward III. Laurence de Berkeroles, aged 14 years, is his heir.
C. Edw. III. File 114. (16.)
1352 Roger's son Gilbert died. [4]
Sept. 8. Westminster. To John de Weston, escheator in the county of Gloucester and the adjacent march of Wales. Order to amove the king's hand from the manor of Estorcheard, co. Kaerdyf, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to Laurence de Berkeroles, as at his suit showing that Roger de Berkeroles his father, two years before his death, granted that manor by charter to Gilbert his son and to the heirs of his body, with remainder, in default of such heirs, to the said Laurence Gilbert's brother and the heirs of his body, and Gilbert was seised of the manor by virtue of that grant and died without an heir of his body, and Laurence entered the manor after his death by the form of the said gift and continued his seisin there until the manor was taken into the king's hand by virtue of an inquisition taken by the escheator by which it was found that Roger died seised of that manor as of fee without the possession of Laurence, and he beseeching the king to order his hand to be amoved, the king appointed the escheator and Guy de Bryane and Matthew le Sore to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that Roger two years before his death gave that manor by charter to Gilbert with remainder as aforesaid, and if Laurence should die without an heir of his body the manor should revert to Roger's right heirs, and Gilbert was seised of the manor for two years and eleven days by virtue of that grant, and he died seised thereof, and Laurence entered the manor because Gilbert died without an heir of his body and he continued his seisin for two.weeks, and he has not changed or alienated his estate therein and Roger at his death had no estate therein. By C.
Research Notes:
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Reference: C 47/9/32
Description: Partition of the lands of Laurence Berkerolles in co Glam between Joan, wife of Richard Vernon, Edward and John Stradeling, William Gamage and Thomas de la Bere; co-heirs 10mm
Date: 13 Hen IV (30 September 1411-29 September 1412)
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
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[1] Cartae et Alia Munimenta quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia pertinent, Vol. 2, MCXCVI-Circ. MCCLXX (Cardiff: William Lewis, 1910), 562, [URL].
[2] Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. IX, 1349-1354 (London: HMSO, 1906), 209, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[3] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 10, Edward III (London: HMSO, 1921), 5, [HathiTrust].
[4] Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. IX, 1349-1354 (London: HMSO, 1906), 442-443, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].