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Arnold (Arnaut) de Mont Pessat (Montpezat), seigneur de Aiguillon. de Mont Pessat...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/168/8351

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Reference
SC 8/168/8351
Date
[1332]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold (Arnaut) de Mont Pessat (Montpezat), seigneur de Aiguillon.
Name(s)
de Mont Pessat (Montpezat), seigneur de Aiguillon, Arnold (Arnaut)
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Arnold de Mont Pessat requests the king's grace over a demand by the constable of Bordeaux that he render account for the surplus above £500 from the lands of Presshak, granted to him in compensation for his losses and damage in the war.
Nature of endorsement
Order the Constable of Bordeaux to inform himself of the yearly value of the land which Mont Pessat has of the assignment of the Earl of Kent during this time above the value of £500, and certify this to the king, and meanwhile cease the demand that he render account.
Places mentioned
Aiguillon, [Guyenne, France]
Gascony, [France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
[Edmund of Woodstock], Earl of Kent
Arnold Bernard (Arnaut-Bernat) de Presshak (Preissac), [Soudan de La Trau]
constable of Bordeaux.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1332, with reference to the resultant enrolment on m 4 of C 61/44.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/282/14090

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/233/11649

For the resultant enrolment see m.4 of C 61/44

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294196/

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