Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Bluets 71
not known with certainty but she can‘t have been much over this, if she
wasn‘t considerably younger in 1173. Noble children were often married
young,
when a seigneurs daughter reached the age of 7 her father
was entitled to demand feudal aid from his vassals to marry
her off. When she reached her ninth year she was entitled
to receive her allotted dowry 295
and so Petronella may have been very young indeed. When Dermot died
in 1185 296 it is possible, even likely, that the marriage had never been
consummated because of her tender years.
Petronella‘s brother (frat ejus eide Petronille 297 ), Thomas, paid
Petronella‘s marriage dowry to Dermot and is credited with arranging the
marriage. The only Roll entry that refers to this marriage is dated 1217,
but it is the instruction for the Justiciar of Ireland, Geoffrey de Marisc
to pay Petronella‘s dowry back to her without delay 298 because Dermot
was dead 299 and had been for a long time; it is noted that this instruction
is made almost 30 years after Dermot‘s death. 300
Revised Ed p134
295
Shahar, S (2003) ibid
296
Clarenden Mss 4783, page 97 qutoed in MacCarthy, D (1858) reported in
Proceedings of the 1858 November Meeting Jour. Kilkenny and South-East of
Ireland Archaeological Society. Vol. II p 212
This yeare (1185) Dermot MacCarthy , prince of Desmond. was slaine neere
unto Corke in a parley by the citizens and some of Thoobald Walter's party
297
Rot. Litt. Claus. in turri Londinensis (Tower Roll) 1 Hen III (1217)
Mandatu est G de Marisc Justic Hibn qd sn dilone hre faciat Petronilla Bloet
maritagiu suu quod Thom' Bloet frat ejus eide Pertonille dedit cu Deremot
Magarthy Rege de Cork viro. suo. T. com Supa in the Journal of the Kilkenny
and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society (1859) vol II p211
298
Sn dilone (see transcript in previous footnote) is taken to be a contraction of
dilatio sine = without delay. It doesn‘t appear in Latham
299
It is interesting that this repayment is made in the first year of the Regency of
William Marshal, and of course the Bluets were major allies and supporters of the
Marshal
300
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