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Peter (Pey) de Gontald (Gontaud), Lord of the castle of Beaulieu, esquire. de Gontald...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/283/14141
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/283/14141
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Peter (Pey) de Gontald (Gontaud), Lord of the castle of Beaulieu, esquire.
- Name(s)
- de Gontald (Gontaud), Lord of the castle of Beaulieu, Peter (Pey)
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Peter de Gontald makes two requests:1) He states that at the time of the construction of the bastide, an agreement was entered into between him and John de Greyly, King's Lieutenant in the Duchy of Guyenne, that because the bastide was built within the jurisdiction of the castle of Beaulieu, half the jurisdiction over the bastide, excluding high justice, was to be common between him and the king; and he had this half jurisdiction, which he has recovered several times by judgment, and from which he has now been expelled by the king's people, when they took the bastide back into the king's hand after the war in Gascony. He asks that this jurisdiction might be returned to him and the agreements kept as they were before the war; and he is ready to do fealty to the king for this by letters and by instrument, before the king or his council.2) He states that he holds some houses of the king in Lauzun in the diocese of Agen, which he intends to build up and increase in height, to the king's honour and profit; but he believes that the lords and people of those parts intend to obstruct him. He asks that the Seneschal of the Agenais might be ordered to prevent such obstructions and, if any occurs, to remove it.
- Nature of endorsement
- With regard to the first petition: the Seneschal of Perigord is to be ordered that, when he has called the king's defender and the others who are to be called, he is to do swift justice to the petitioner.With regard to the other petition concerning the heightening of the house: the Seneschal of the Agenais is to be ordered not to allow any undue disturbance to take place.
- Places mentioned
- Beaulieu, [Guyenne, France]
- Guyenne, [France]
- France
- Lauzun, [Guyenne, France]
- Agen diocese, [France].
- People mentioned
- John (Joan) de Greyly (Grailly), King's Lieutenant in the Duchy of Guyenne
- [Philip IV], King of France
- Vidame de Pykerne (Pikine?).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Roles Gascons, vol. III no.4789 is dated 12 April 33 Edward I (1305) and no.4790 is dated 30 March 33 Edward I. They are clearly in response to this petition. See the discussion of the petition in M. Vale, The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War (Oxford, 1990), p. 219.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), no.4789 (order not to allow the petitioner's alterations to his house to be disturbed) & no.4790 (order to do justice to the petitioner in the matter of the bastide)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682252/
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