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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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Auda (Aude) Despleccat, widow of Hugh de Gabaudun. Despleccat Auda (Aude) King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/289/14422
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/289/14422
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1339]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Auda (Aude) Despleccat, widow of Hugh de Gabaudun.
- Name(s)
- Despleccat, Auda (Aude)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is partly illegible] Auda Despleccat, widow of Hugh de Gabaudun, states that her husband [was killed and] her son, Hugh de Gabaudun, was captured by the French when they took Blaye, and is now in prison, and that she has nothing with which to support [her] ten children, as the French have taken all her lands and her husband's. She asks that Hugh might have the prevote of Saint-Emilion, which Hugh [her husband] held for term of life, and which the Seneschal gave to John Dyens after his death: for term of life, in compensation for his losses, and that he might provide for John Dyens elsewhere.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Blaye, [Saintonge, France]
- France
- Saint-Emilion, [Guyenne, France].
- People mentioned
- Hugh (Hugues) de Gabaudun, husband of Auda Despleccat
- Hugh (Hugues) de Gabaudun, son of Auda Despleccat
- John (Joan) Dyens.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to c. 1339 with reference to the capture of Blaye by the French.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a transcript, see p.112 of PRO 31/7/132
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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/C9735584/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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