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Attorneys of Otho de Graunsun (Grandison) of the Isles. King and council Graunsun...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2439

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This record is about the Attorneys of Otho de Graunsun (Grandison) of the Isles. King and council Graunsun... dating from [1305-1309] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/49/2439
Date
[1305-1309]
Description
Petitioners
Attorneys of Otho de Graunsun (Grandison) of the Isles.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Graunsun requests remedy for himself and for the bailiff of Guernsey concerning their excommunication by the bishop and his ordinaries made because of the churches which were given by the king and his ministers in the Isles after the war, those who had previously held them having withdrawn from the Isles into France during the war.
Nature of endorsement
The bishop will be written to to desist.
Places mentioned
Channel Islands
Coutances, [Normandy, France]
France
Guernsey.
People mentioned
Otho of Graunson (Grandison)
Bishop of Coutances
John de Cartret, Bailiff of Guernsey.
Note
The petition probably dates to 1305 or 1309 for the king addressed writs to the bishop of Coutances concerning his attempts to cite the people of the islands outside of the islands (CCR 1302-7, p.327; CCR 1307-13 p.149).
Related material

For a related petition from the people of the Channel Islands is SC 8/53/2642

For a related petition by the same petitioners see SC 8/114/5662

See also piece 432 in C 81/62

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3636
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.327 (writ to the bishop prohibiting him from citing any of the islanders or the king's ministers)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.149 (writ to the bishop prohibiting him from citing any of the islanders or the king's ministers)
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