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Arnold Garssie (Arnaut Gassie) del Fosse (du Foussat), Lord of Aiguillon. del Fosse...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/290/14484

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Reference
SC 8/290/14484
Date
[1315]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold Garssie (Arnaut Gassie) del Fosse (du Foussat), Lord of Aiguillon.
Name(s)
del Fosse (du Foussat), Lord of Aiguillon, Arnold Garssie (Arnaut Gassie)
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Arnold Garssie del Fosse, Lord of Aiguillon states that the king granted him and his confederates his pardon for various homicides, robberies, arsons and other trespasses committed at Aiguillon and Lacepede, and granted them his peace, on condition that they would answer in court on these charges against any accuser, and had ordered his Seneschal not to harass them on this account, but that the Seneschal summoned Arnold before him and forced him to submit to his will on these matters, and to pay large sums of money to the king and to the party, without listening to his arguments. He asks that the Seneschal might be ordered to uphold the grant of the king's peace, to restore him to his previous condition and to put right any harm done to him by his enemies contrary to this grant of peace.
Nature of endorsement
He is to show these letters of pardon in Chancery, and to have a writ to the Seneschal to do full justice to him according to their tenor. And if some difficulty or novelty intervenes, then they are to inform the king and his council of it, clearly and openly.
Places mentioned
Aiguillon, [Guyenne, France]
Lacepede, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
[Amaury de Creon (Craon)], Seneschal of Gascony.
Note
Gascon Rolls 1307-17 no.1404 is dated 18 July 9 Edward II (1315).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no.1404 (instructions to the Seneschal to uphold the pardon granted to the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735646/

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