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Community of St Emilion. The community of St Emilion states that they used to be...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7024

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This record is about the Community of St Emilion. The community of St Emilion states that they used to be... dating from [? c. 1303] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/141/7024
Date
[? c. 1303]
Description
Petitioners
Community of St Emilion.
Nature of request
The community of St Emilion states that they used to be a community with a Mayor until just before the Gascon war, when Peter de Scarlet, their Mayor, died, and the office was taken into the King's hand. Shortly afterwards the town was taken by the French, and has been without a Mayor ever since. It has now surrendered into the hand of the King of England, but the Seneschal of Gascony refuses to allow them to have a Mayor. They ask that if they have done anything to displease the King they might be allowed to put it right, and that they might have their Mayor back.
Nature of endorsement
The Seneschal of Gascony is to be ordered to inform himself of the reason why the office of Mayor was taken into the King's hand, and of the advantage or disadvantage that might come to the King from granting the office; and he is to inform the King.
Places mentioned
St Emilion, [Guyenne, France]
Gascony, [France]
France.
People mentioned
Peter de Scarlet, Mayor of St Emilion
[Philip IV], King of France.
Note
Dated to 1290 by Champollion, vol. I, no.291; but this date has been crossed out of the TNA copy, but no alternative is given. Others similarly crossed out are re-dated to c.1303-5. Archives Historiques de la Gironde, vol. I, no.76 tentatively dates this petition to 1303.
Related material

For transcript, see fo.101 of PRO 31/7/119

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Archives historiques du Departement de la Gironde, vol. I, (, 1859), no.76 (full edition of petition)
  • Lettres des rois, reines et autres personages des cours de France et d'Angleterre depuis Louis VII jusqu'a Henri IV tirees des archives de Londres par Brequigny, vol. I (1162-1300), ed. M. Champollion-Figeac, (, 1839), p.383 (no.291) (edition of petition)
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