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Gerard de Tastes. de Tastes Gerard King. [Petition in 6 parts, though mush of the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/155/7745

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Reference
SC 8/155/7745
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Gerard de Tastes.
Name(s)
de Tastes, Gerard
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Petition in 6 parts, though mush of the petition is damaged and illegible].1) A request for reversal of banishment.2) A request concerning the castle of Sainte Croix.3) A request that Tastes is not disinherited.4) [Illegible].5) [Illegible].6) Request that a lordship not be granted.1)
Nature of endorsement
It seems to the council, if it pleases the king, that the king of France be requested to repeal [the banishment] of the petitioner and others.2) Coram rege.3) He is to state what lands he lost because of his service to the king, and what compensation he received from the earl of Kent and others, and for his brother also.4) Let the constable of Bordeaux be ordered to account with him . . .5) Let the seneschal of Gascony be ordered . . . [illegible].6) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Guyenne, [France]
Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, [Guyenne, France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
Bishop of Norwich.
Note
The petition appears to date to 1330 as pardons seem to have been obtained in response to the first part of the petition as appears by an entry in the patent rolls, and entries in the Gascon rolls of about the same date may relate to part two of the petition (CPR 1327-30, p.491; Carte, vol. I, pp.70, 73).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.491 (request to the archbishop of Toulouse to deliver the pardons of banishment of the king of France to named individuals, including the petitioner)
  • Catalogue des rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois, vol. I, ed. T. Carte, (, 1743), pp.70, 73 (grant of high justice to the petitioner in the parish of St Croix de Mount)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209937/

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