Bishop of Agen. King. Bishop of Agen The Bishop of Agen makes seven requests:1) He...

Petitioners

Bishop of Agen.

Addressees

King.

Occupation

Bishop of Agen

Nature of request

The Bishop of Agen makes seven requests:1) He states that Bernard Martini, clerk, and William de Bordelha, bailli of Tournon, and his servants, have made many attacks and inflicted many injuries on him, because, although they had taken an oath, they refused to obey an ordinance made by him which touches the king's reverence. He asks that they might be compelled to obey and the servants punished, or that some other suitable remedy might be provided.2) He asks that the Seneschal of the Agenais and the king's other ministers there might be ordered that the letters of pareage between the king and the bishop concerning common jurisdiction in the city of Agen might be upheld and preserved in all their articles, and especially with regard to the scrivenership, notwithstanding any letters granted to any scribe before the making of these letters.3) He asks that an article in these letters of pareage stating that the emoluments of the king's seal should be common between the king and the bishop, if it is held continually or almost continually at Agen and the clerks who receive the obligations to be sealed with it are continually resident there might be clarified, with regard to what the seal being at Agen 'continually or almost continually' means.4) He asks that the Seneschal of the Agenais and the other [ministers] as above might be ordered to put into execution all other letters granted to the bishop by the king, according to their form and tenor.5) He asks that orders might be given as above to protect and defend him, his estate, goods and possessions.6) He states that the king's people have told him to mint his own coins, and asks that he might not be molested by these people on this matter for the time being, as he cannot do this at present, due to the value of money, and it would not be to the king's advantage, as his mint at Saint-Macaire would suffer from want of bullion.7) He states that Jews have come back into some places in Gascony and are living there. He asks that he might be able to bring some Jews back to Agen, as his church had jurisdiction and powers of taxation over them there in the past, and he does not wish the rights of his church to be diminished.

Nature of endorsement

Complaints of the Bishop of Agen.

Places mentioned

Agen, [Guyenne, France]

Tournon-d'Agenais, [Guyenne, France]

Agenais, [Guyenne, France]

Saint-Macaire, [Guyenne, France]

Gascony, [France].

People mentioned

Bernard (Bernat) Martini (Martin), clerk

William (Guilhem) de Bordelha, bailli of Tournon

Jews of Gascony.

For a related petition, see SC 8/290/14461