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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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Vidal de Caupena (Caupenne), knight. de Caupena (Caupenne) Vidal King. Vidal de Caupena...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/273/13621
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This record is about the Vidal de Caupena (Caupenne), knight. de Caupena (Caupenne) Vidal King. Vidal de Caupena... dating from [c. 1279] 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 8/273/13621
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1279]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Vidal de Caupena (Caupenne), knight.
- Name(s)
- de Caupena (Caupenne), Vidal
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Vidal de Caupena states that he had complained to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and to Otto de Grandisson about wrongs done to him and his family by Luke de Thanay, and Elias de Alta Villa, but that they denied him justice, sending him to the King. He asks that he might have justice, and that the money stolen from him might be restored to him. He also requests compensation for the injuries and wrongs done to him by the lord of Navailles in his capacity as executor of his late brother, and tenant of the castle of Caupenne, and while he was in the King's service. He also requests letters concerning gifts made to him and his nephew by the King.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- La Reole, [Guyenne, France]
- Navailles-Angos, [Gascony, France]
- Caupenne, [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- R[Robert Burnell], Bishop of Bath and Wells
- Otto de Grandissono (Grandisson), knight
- Luke de Thanay (Taney)
- Arnold de Caupena (Caupenne), nephew of the petitioner
- Elias, nephew of the petitioner
- Elias de Alta Villa
- the lord of Navailles.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1279 on the basis of references to many of these people in an otherwise unrelated entry in the Gascon rolls of March 1279 (Roles Gascons, vol. II, no.213).
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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)
- Latin
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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/C9517568/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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