Margaret (Marguerite, Margaride), Countess of Foix and Vicomtesse of Bearn. Countess...

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.

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

• 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)