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William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut) de Brocas, of Sault-de-Navailles. de Brocas William...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/273/13632

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Reference
SC 8/273/13632
Date
[1309]
Description
Petitioners
William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut) de Brocas, of Sault-de-Navailles.
Name(s)
de Brocas, William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut)
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Petition in 2 parts:]1) Brocas requests that the king will assign him and his companions land in the prevotes of Dax or St Sever for lands in Sault which they lost because they adhered to the king in the war, and which the lord of Navailles withholds from them despite the terms of the peace.2) Brocas requests that the king will assign him and his companions the issues of the baillie of Saujon and the rents of the forest of Bacones as the king's father assigned them Sort and Pouillon for money owed to them, but they have been subsequently granted to Borzeys and Clavarie.1)
Nature of endorsement
The second petition is granted and is to be done.2) Concerning the first let the seneschal be commanded to make letters to them of their lands and possessions according to [...].
Places mentioned
Sault-de-Navailles, [Gascony, France]
Dax, [Gascony, France]
St Sever, [Gascony, France]
Guyenne, [France]
Bacones forest, [Saintonge, Guyenne, France]
Sort en Chalosse, [Gascony, France]
Pouillon, [Gascony, France]
Bearn, [Gascony, France]
Sonion (Saujon), [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
Lord of Navailles
[Henry de Lacy], Earl of Lincoln
Fortenier de Borreys
Loup Bergoyn (Lop Burgoun) de Clavarie, of Bearn.
Note
Datable to 1309 by Gascon Rolls 1307-17 p.90, no.287, which is dated 15 September 1309. The bailles of Pouillon and Sort referred to in the second request were granted to the petitioner on 1 November 1305 (Roles Gascons, vol. III, no.5000). The mention of the king's father dates this petition to the reign of Edward II.
Related material

For the related entry in the Gascon Rolls, see m.8 in C 61/24

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/84/4175

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), p.90, no.287 (grant of second request) & p.412, no.1439 (order to the seneschal to use all means in his power to force the lord of Navailles to restore the possessions and goods to the petitioner) & p.420, no.1462 (subsequent entry relating to the second request)
  • Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), no.5000 (order to John de Havering to deliver the bailles referred to in the second request)
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