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Lop Burgoun (Loup Bergunh) de Burdeux (Bordeaux (Bordeu)). de Burdeux (Bordeaux (Bordeu))...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/285/14236
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This record is about the Lop Burgoun (Loup Bergunh) de Burdeux (Bordeaux (Bordeu)). de Burdeux (Bordeaux (Bordeu))... dating from [? c. 1310] 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 8/285/14236
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1310]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lop Burgoun (Loup Bergunh) de Burdeux (Bordeaux (Bordeu)).
- Name(s)
- de Burdeux (Bordeaux (Bordeu)), Lop Burgoun (Loup Bergunh)
- Addressees
- King.
- Places mentioned
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France].
- Nature of request
- Lop Burgoun de Burdeux requests letters to the present Seneschal of Gascony, or to the person who will be Seneschal, ordering him to install a suitable Mayor at Bayonne, who will preserve the king's profit and honour. He also asks that the Seneschal might be ordered to resolve the dispute between the Mayor and the Prevot and Castellan, so that each knows what he should reasonably do for his office, and to bring all the disputes between them to a peaceful conclusion. And he asks that the damages he has suffered at the hands of the Mayors of Bayonne might be put right.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated to c. 1310, with reference to the granting of Bayonne castle to the petitioner on 10 November 4 Edward II (1310) (Carte, vol. I p.68, m. 17 of C 61/25). The office of Mayor of Bordeaux is granted to the petitioner on 1 August 1329 (C 61/41 m.7).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the grant to the petitioner of the keeping of the castle of Bayonne, see m. 17 of C 61/25
For a petition probably from the petitioner's son, see SC 8/170/8496
For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/282/14087
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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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- Topics
- Europe and Russia
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Catalogue des rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois, vol. I, ed. T. Carte, (, 1743), p.68 (grant to petitioner of keeping of castle of Bayonne)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682348/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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