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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
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John de Fronsac. de Fronsac John King. [The petitioner appears to request justice...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/186/9284
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This record is about the John de Fronsac. de Fronsac John King. [The petitioner appears to request justice... dating from [c. 1380-c. 1400] 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 8/186/9284
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1380-c. 1400]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Fronsac.
- Name(s)
- de Fronsac, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [The petitioner appears to request justice regarding the inheritance of property in Gascony from Colum, but unfortunately the petition is incomplete and badly faded, and the full sense is difficult to retrieve.]
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
- Lesparre, [Guyenne, France]
- Guyenne, [France].
- People mentioned
- Guillaume Aye de Fronsac, father of the petitioner
- John de Multon, mayor of Bordeaux
- John Colum
- [John] Neville, Lieutenant of Guyenne (Gascony)
- John Stretton, Constable of Bordeaux.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The handwriting, and the reference to [John] Neville as the late seneschal of Gascony, would seem to date the petition to the period c.1380-1400.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295162/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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