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Bidau (Vidal) Brane. Brane Bidau (Vidal) King and council. Bidau Brane states that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/292/14557
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/292/14557
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bidau (Vidal) Brane.
- Name(s)
- Brane, Bidau (Vidal)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Bidau Brane states that there is war between the gentlemen of Brassenx, and he is lord of La Mote de Villenave through his wife, with appurtenances, such as men and mills, in that country. He requests protection, and that his body and goods might be taken into the king's safekeeping, so that no harm comes to him through this war.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Seneschal of Gascony is to be ordered to maintain him according to reason, so that wrong and damage are not done to him unduly, either to his body or to his goods.
- Places mentioned
- Brassenx, [Gascony, France]
- Villenave, [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- [Douce de Montaulieu], Lady of Villenave, wife of Bidau Brane.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to 1305 with reference to Roles Gascons, vol. III no.4917, which is dated 6 April 1305, and which would seem to be in response to this petition. Malcolm Vale discusses this petition on p.104 of The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340 (Oxford 1990).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/35/1750
For another petition possibly from the same petitioner, see SC 8/84/4185
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), no.4917 (letters of protection for the petitioner)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735719/
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