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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Margaret (Marguerite, Margaride), Countess of Foix and Vicomtesse of Bearn. Countess...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/286/14290
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This record is about the Margaret (Marguerite, Margaride), Countess of Foix and Vicomtesse of Bearn. Countess... dating from [1312] 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 8/286/14290
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1312]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret (Marguerite, Margaride), Countess of Foix and Vicomtesse of Bearn.
- Name(s)
- Countess of Foix and Vicomtesse of Bearn, Margaret (Marguerite, Margaride)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Margaret, Countess of Foix and Vicomtesse of Bearn, states that as far as she could she aided John de Ferreres, Seneschal of Gascony, with force and arms to maintain the king's rights in Gascony, and that because of this the commissaries of the King of France, at the suit of the Lord of Albret, summon her constantly in the king's towns, and to Toulouse and elsewhere, so that she is in great trouble and danger for defending the king's honour; and the lieutenants of the Seneschal and the king's baillis do not want to defend and warrant her as they should, according to the letter of warrant that she has from John de Ferreres. She requests a letter to the present Seneschal, or to the person who will be Seneschal, or to their lieutenants, to preserve and defend her according to the previous letter.
- Nature of endorsement
- Letters are to be sent to the Seneschal of Gascony, to maintain and defend her according to the laws and customs of those parts as far as he properly can.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- France
- Toulouse, [Languedoc, France].
- People mentioned
- John de Ferreres (Ferrers), Seneschal of Gascony
- [Amaneu de Le Bret], Lord of Albret.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The promise to send messengers to deal with this matter on m.19 of C 61/26 is dated 1 January 6 Edward II (1313). John de Ferrers, Seneschal of Gascony, was killed in 1312.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from the same petitioner, see no. 14 of C 47/25/2
For a promise to send messengers to the King of France and to Gascony to deal with these matters, to be appointed in the present parliament, see m. 19 of C 61/26
For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/288/14395
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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)
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- Catalogue des rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois, vol. I, ed. T. Carte, (, 1743), p.42 (calendar of entry on m.19 of C 61/26)
- Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no.804 (edition of this entry)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682402/
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