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Raymond Leon of Bordeaux. Leon Raymond King and council. Leon requests the king's...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8563

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This record is about the Raymond Leon of Bordeaux. Leon Raymond King and council. Leon requests the king's... dating from [? 1320-? 1345] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/172/8563
Date
[? 1320-? 1345]
Description
Petitioners
Raymond Leon of Bordeaux.
Name(s)
Leon, Raymond
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Leon requests the king's letters to the seneschals, mayors and all other officials and ministers of Gascony and of the duchy of Guyenne to keep and defend his tenancies and possessions from the time that he left Bordeaux to come to the king with messages with others of the jurors and commonalty of Bordeaux, he leaving on Sunday after the feast of St Gregory.
Nature of endorsement
Let letters be made concerning all his just possessions according to what is requested.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Guyenne, [France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to 1320-1345 on the basis of the hand.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/273/13636

For another petition possibly by the same petitioner, see SC 8/291/14537

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/C9294428/

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