Jurats and all the commons of the city of Bordeaux. King. The jurats and commons...

Petitioners

Jurats and all the commons of the city of Bordeaux.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The jurats and commons request that the appointment of Amaneu de Fossat to the office of mayor be withdrawn and that the prior appointment of Odo de Lados to that office by the king's commissioners be granted and confirmed. Fossat is implicated in the factional divide in the city between Colom and Solers parties, and the reforms that they have planned with the agreement of Lados will be placed in jeopardy otherwise.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].

People mentioned

Guillaume de Machau, servant of the king

Arnold Calculi (Caillau) of the Colom faction

Pierre Calculi (Caillau) of the Solers faction

Amaneu Columbi (Colom), head of the Colom faction

John Columbi (Colom), head of the Colom faction

Lord John de Hastingis (Hastings), seneschal of Gascony

King of France

[John Salmon], bishop of Norwich

[John de Bretagne], earl of Richmond

Guy Ferre, knight

William Ingue (Inge), knight

Odo de Lados

Gualhard de Solio (Solers)

Amaneu de Fossat, knight, late lieutenant of the seneschal of Gascony

John de Naveto, prior of the friars preachers (Dominicans) of Bordeaux.

For a related letter, see no.196 in SC 1/29

For the enrolled response to this petition, see m.11 in C 61/25

For the king's response to the petition, see no.121 in SC 1/37

For a letter from the jurats of Bordeaux with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no.11 of SC 1/55

• Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), p.158 (no.551) (king's response to the petition)
• Les Factions et Les Troubles à Bordeaux de 1300 à 1330 environ: Documents Inédits, ed. M. C. Bémont, (HMSO, 1918), pp.142-6 (full editions of the petition and the king's response)