Piece
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Piers (Peter, Pey) de Puyane (Poyane), burgess of Bayonne. de Puyane (Poyane) Piers...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/180/8989
What’s it about?
This record is about the Piers (Peter, Pey) de Puyane (Poyane), burgess of Bayonne. de Puyane (Poyane) Piers... dating from [c. 1340-c. 1360] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/180/8989
-
Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1340-c. 1360]
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
- Petitioners
- Piers (Peter, Pey) de Puyane (Poyane), burgess of Bayonne.
- Name(s)
- de Puyane (Poyane), Piers (Peter, Pey)
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Piers de Puyane, burgess of Bayonne and former admiral of the king's fleet, makes three requests.1) He seeks remedy and protection in a dispute regarding a collection he was ordered by the king to make when he was mayor of Bayonne. The document is damaged and the precise sense is unclear.2) He requests the payment of the arrears of an annuity of £50 due to him, which has not been paid since the seneschal took the lands into his hands. He also asks for a reassignment of the annuity.3) He requests confirmation of an annuity granted to his son Michael in the bailiwick of Biarritz.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The lord of Albret responds that he is willing to answer the charge and do right.2) The seneschal and the constable should take advice from the petitioner, and make assignment of the arrears, and otherwise they should make payment or assignment without excuses or delay.3) Show the letters and they shall be accepted in a reasonable manner.
- Places mentioned
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
- Guosse (Gosse), [Gascony, France]
- Seinhaus (Seignanx), [Gascony, France]
- Bearridz (Biarritz), [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- Arnaud de Durfort
- Seigneur de Lebret (Albret)
- Seneschal of Gascony
- Provost of Bayonne
- Michael (Miqueu) de Puyane (Poyane), son of the petitioner.
-
Note (Additional information about the record)
- Piers de Puyane is named as Admiral of the fleet of Bayonne in 1338, and as mayor of Bayonne in 1341, while a Michael be Poyane appears in 1372 (Catalogue des Rolles Gascons, vol. I, pp.90, 105, 159). These, together with the handwriting of the document, would suggest a date in the region c.1340-c.1360.
-
Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
-
For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/292/14585
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- French
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294857/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
74,884 records
Within the department: SC
Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly...
18,283 records
Within the series: SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
51 records
Within the piece: SC 8/180
8951-9000. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item...
You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/180/8989
Piers (Peter, Pey) de Puyane (Poyane), burgess of Bayonne. de Puyane (Poyane) Piers...
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.