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'La Ville de Ypre': plan showing city of Ypres, Flanders (now in Belgium), with fort,...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/17
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This record is about the 'La Ville de Ypre': plan showing city of Ypres, Flanders (now in Belgium), with fort,... dating from [?1584] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- [?1584]
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'La Ville de Ypre': plan showing city of Ypres, Flanders (now in Belgium), with fort, and disposition of troops. Also shows encampments of Germans, Italian infantry, Alban and Italian cavalry, Walloons, Walloon cavalry; quarters of the Prince of Parma and of the 'Marquis du Rubais'. Reference table to the fort, and notes on defences and the size of the garrison. No scale shown. Cardinal points; oriented to the south.
Although Ypres fell to Parma in 1584, the plan was made after the capture of the city, because 300 Alban horsemen, part of Parma's forces, were to form part of the garrison. Moreover, 'Rubais' is Robert de Melun, Marquis de Roubaix, who was killed at Bruges in 1585. -
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- SP 46/36/15
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- Public Record(s)
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- English, French and Italian
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- 65 cm x 45 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- This plan, despite being originally of State Paper Office provenance, was received in the PRO from the Office of Woods and Forests in April 1905.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 697.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981961/
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