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William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut) de Brocas. de Brocas William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4176

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Reference
SC 8/84/4176
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut) de Brocas.
Name(s)
de Brocas, William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut)
Addressees
[None]
Nature of request
[Part of a series of petitions subsequently cut up]William Arnold requests that it is ordained that amends are made of the damages and losses made to him and his fellows by the lord of Navailles according to the form of the peace made between the king and the king of France, or that the king will make amends or restoration. By the peace the lord of Navailles was ordered to restore to Arnaud and his fellows of Saintes all their houses, goods and inheritances in the vill, but instead he destroyed them all.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the seneschal that he speak with the lord of Navailles that he suffer Arnaud and his fellows to return to their lands and possessions in the town of Saintes as they were before the war, and if does not wish to do this then the king is to be certified quickly so that he is able to ordain of his estate.
Places mentioned
Saintes, [Saintonge, France]
Navailles, [Gascony, France]
Saint-Sever, [Gascony, France]
Gascony, [France]
Brocas, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
Lord of Navailles
Provost of Saint-Sever.
Note
Datable to 1305 with reference to SC 8/84/4175. This matter was not resolved however: Gascon Rolls 1307-17 no.1439 is dated 3 September 1315.
Related material

For another part of this series of petitions subsequently cut up see SC 8/84/4175

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/166/8292

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 136
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no.1439 (instrusctions to the Seneschal to order the Lord of Navailles to return his lands to the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148718/

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