Pierre de Lamote (Lamothe), lord of Roquetaillade. de Lamote (Lamothe), lord of Roquetaillade...

Petitioners

Pierre de Lamote (Lamothe), lord of Roquetaillade.

Name(s)

de Lamote (Lamothe), lord of Roquetaillade, Pierre

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

[Petition in 4 parts:]1) Lamote requests the king's aid so that he can continue in the king's service as he has sustained great losses in the king's service and defence in the war.2) Lamote requests that the lieutenant of Aquitaine be commanded to suffer him to use and enjoy justice and lordship both high and low in a place called la Laurence [with specified bounds] which came to him by his mother.3) Lamote requests that the king confirm to him and his heirs the office of Prevot of Bazas and the Basadais given to him by the duke of Lancaster and confirmed by the king's grandfather.4) [Entry partially struck-through].5) John Destau, daughter of Lamote's sister held the land of Destaux in the Bordelais, and Lamote requests that the land of Destaux be given to him as it was confiscated by the rebellion of Bernard and the land was bound with a certain sum to his sister in marriage, and she is dead and he is next heir.

Nature of endorsement

[On face:][Response to second request:] Let the lieutenant be ordered to allow the petitioner to enjoy the jurisdiction.[Response to the last request:] It has been ordered to the justice to do justice to the petitioner concerning the sum on the land according to what he will show.[On dorse, none].

Places mentioned

Roquetaillade, [Guyenne, France]

Bazas, [Guyenne, France]

Basadais, [Guyenne, France]

Langon, [Guyenne, France]

Montpezat, [Guyenne, France].

People mentioned

Pierre de Montepesat (Montpezat)

Trenque Leon de Montpezat, mother of the petitioner

Arnold Bernard, lord of Prechac

Theobald de Budos

John Destau, son of the sister of the petitioner

Duke of Lancaster.

For the relevant entry in the Gascon Rolls referring to part 5 of this petition, see m.6 in C 61/93