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Joan Darmaignac (Armagnac), lady of Lesparre and Rauzan. Darmaignac (Armagnac), lady...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/269/13403

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This record is about the Joan Darmaignac (Armagnac), lady of Lesparre and Rauzan. Darmaignac (Armagnac), lady... dating from [? c. 1416] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/269/13403
Date
[? c. 1416]
Description
Petitioners
Joan Darmaignac (Armagnac), lady of Lesparre and Rauzan.
Name(s)
Darmaignac (Armagnac), lady of Lesparre and Rauzan, Joan
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Darmaignac requests that letters be directed to the seneschal of Gascony and the constable and council of Bordeaux charging them to return to her the possession of her daughter and her inheritance, and commanding them to take her homage in the name of her daughter as her protector and guardian as the lords of Lesparre and Rauzan have been accustomed to do in the past, as the custody has been taken into the king's hand without any cause.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Lesparre, [Guyenne, France]
Rauzan, [Guyenne, France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
Note
The petition is dated to? c. 1416 on the basis of entries relating to the petitioner clearly in the aftermath of the death of her husband (Carte, vol. I, pp.200, 201).
Related material

For references relating to the petitioner and her daughter, but not in response to this petition, see mm.6 and 18 in C 61/117

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Catalogue des rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois, vol. I, ed. T. Carte, (, 1743), pp.200-1 (references to the petitioner in relation to different matters)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517350/

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