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Arnold William (Arnaut Guilhem) de Marsan, son of Arnold de Gavastun, late knight...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/291/14520

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Reference
SC 8/291/14520
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold William (Arnaut Guilhem) de Marsan, son of Arnold de Gavastun, late knight of Gascony.
Name(s)
de Marsan, Arnold William (Arnaut Guilhem)
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Arnold William de Marsan, son of Arnold de Gavastun, late knight of Gascony, makes three requests:1) He states that the king owes his father, who died in the king's service, a sum of money from the time of the war in Gascony. He asks that this money might be paid to him, so that he can pay his father's debts, as Galhard Daudoins, his children, and others are hostages at Orthez and elsewhere for the payment of these debts.2) He states that at the king's command he surrendered himself up and remained for a long time at Montreuil, to his great cost and harm. He asks that the money paid to him by his father at that time might be paid, so that he might give satisfaction to his creditors and discharge his father's soul.3) He states that he and his father owe great debts at London because of the Scottish war, and have sworn and obliged themselves according to the statute. He asks the king and council to take such counsel that they might not be perjurors and that he might not be put in prison.
Nature of endorsement
He is to take his letters to John de Sandale and Thomas de Cauntebrigge, and they will let him have the king's letter for what is due to him; and furthermore he will have a writ of the great seal, by which the Seneschal and the Constable of Bordeaux will be ordered to let him have the office of gauger of Gabarret until his debt is paid: that is, as much as the king receives for the office. And if his debt is worth more than the office, he will have an assignment for the remainder in Gascony.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Orthez, [Gascony, France]
Mosterol sur Fordion (Montreuil) [unidentified], [France]
London
Scotland
Gabarret, [Gascony, France].
People mentioned
Arnold (Arnaut) de Gavastun (Gaveston, Gabaston), late knight of Gascony
Galhard (Gaillard) Daudoins (Audoins)
John de Sandale
Thomas de Caunt[ebrigge] (Cambridge).
Note
Datable to 1305, with reference to Roles Gascons, vol. III, no.4723, which is dated 28 March 1305, and which is clearly in accordance with the endorsement.
Related material

For another petition from Arnaut Guilhem de Marsan, see SC 8/174/8655

For a possibly related document, see no.719 of C 81/65

For another petition from Arnaut Guilhem de Marsan and his brother, see SC 8/291/14546

For another petition from Arnaut Guilhem de Marsan and his half-brother, see SC 8/278/13863

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), no.4723 (instructions to give the petitioner the office of gauger of Gabarret in part payment of what is owed him, and to pay him any money remaining)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735682/

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