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Gautier de Nauran, esquire of Gascony. de Nauran Gautier King and council. Nauran...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8552
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This record is about the Gautier de Nauran, esquire of Gascony. de Nauran Gautier King and council. Nauran... dating from [? 1330-? 1350] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/172/8552
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1330-? 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Gautier de Nauran, esquire of Gascony.
- Name(s)
- de Nauran, Gautier
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Nauran requests that he be compensated for his losses in Gascony to maintain him in his estate so that he can continue to serve the king. He is in the company of the household of Mar and served the king in the war for which the French took all his lands, rents and tenements in Gascony into their hand.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Largely illegible but apparently making some sort of provision for his maintenance].
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France].
- People mentioned
- Ramon Bernard de Mar.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to? 1330-? 1350 on the basis of the hand.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Europe and Russia
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294417/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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