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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Guy Durant, brother of Raymond Durant. Durant Guy King. Durant makes two requests:1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/278/13852
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This record is about the Guy Durant, brother of Raymond Durant. Durant Guy King. Durant makes two requests:1)... dating from [c. 1332] 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 8/278/13852
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Guy Durant, brother of Raymond Durant.
- Name(s)
- Durant, Guy
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Durant makes two requests:1) He asks that the king grant him sustenance, so that he may be able to continue his studies. During the lifetime of his brother, Raymond, who died in the King's service, he studied and advanced until he was a bachelor in law, but had to leave these studies following his brother's death.2) He requests that the King write to the Pope to ask that his brother Vidal, a monk of Saramon, may have a benefice in the priory of Daux or in the abbey of St Croix, Bordeaux, and also to ask the archbishop of Bordeaux to provide him himself with any benefice in his archbishopric.
- Nature of endorsement
- It pleases the King to write to the Pope according to the form of the petition. And concerning the other petition the king shall be advised.
- Places mentioned
- Landes, Gascony, [France]
- Saremon (Saramon), [Armagnac, France]
- Daux, [Languedoc, France]
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
- People mentioned
- Raymond Durant, knight, late seneschal of Landes, brother of the petitioner
- Pope
- Vidal Durant, monk, brother of the petitioner
- Archbishop of Bordeaux.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition must date to after 1332 when Raymond Durant was seneschal of Landes (SC 8/163/8126), since it refers to him as the late seneschal.
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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)
- French
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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/C9517800/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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