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Arnold (Arnaut) de Monpesat (Montpezat), esquire, of Gascony. de Monpesat (Montpezat)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/292/14584

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SC 8/292/14584
Date
[c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold (Arnaut) de Monpesat (Montpezat), esquire, of Gascony.
Name(s)
de Monpesat (Montpezat), Arnold (Arnaut)
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Arnold de Monpesat makes five requests:1) He states that when the king's late uncle, the Earl of Kent, was in Gascony, he adhered to the king's father, and that he continued to serve him, and the present king; and that, when Charles de Valois was in Gascony, the King of France's people seized his lands and destroyed his castles; and they still hold them. The last agreement between the king and the King of France provided for the return of lands, and he requests special letters to the King of France, asking him to return his lands to Arnold.2) He requests compensation for his losses and damages.3) He states that, in compensation for the lands he has lost, he has been assigned certain lands of the Soudan de la Trau, whose value is not sufficient for him to maintain his estate. He asks that he might have the lands, houses and rents that belonged to Peter Viguier de la Rousselle.4) He requests the office of Mayor of Bordeaux, at pleasure, so that he cannot be removed without the king's special command.5) He asks that the Constable of Bordeaux might be ordered to pay the wages owed to him and his companions.
Nature of endorsement
[On face, to first] This petition is to be sent before those who are appointed on behalf of the king to show the aforesaid things [to the King of France]; and they are to do what is to be done.[To second; deleted] The Seneschal and Constable are to be ordered to inform themselves concerning this article, and to inform the king.[To third; deleted] The Seneschal and Constable are to be ordered in the same manner.[To fourth] Concerning this article: the king will make known his will in haste.[To fifth] Concerning this article: the Constable is to be ordered to account with him and to inform the king of what is . . .[On dorse] With regard to the two points concerning the lands lost and occupied and of the . . . the king is pursuing this matter with the King of France, by treaty, to have his lands and the lands of others which are occupied by the said King of France, and in the meantime the Seneschal and Constable are to be ordered to inform themselves concerning his lands and his service . . . and to inform the king; and the king, thus informed, will give him such reward as he ought.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
La Reole, [Guyenne, France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
La Rousselle, [Bordeaux, Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
[Edmund of Woodstock], Earl of Kent
[Edward II], King of England
Charles de Valois, [Count of Valois]
[Charles IV], King of France
[Philip VI], King of France
[Arnold Bernard (Arnaut-Bernat) de Preissac], Soudan (Soldain) de la Trau
Peter (Pey) Viguier de la Rousselle.
Note
A Latin summary of a petition from Arnold de Montpezat, asking to be made Mayor of Bordeaux, is enrolled on a roll of petitions from Easter 1328; but, as this petition is clearly from after the death of Edmund, Earl of Kent, it cannot be the one. However, it is unlikely to date from long after the Earl of Kent's death in 1330.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/168/8351

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.185 (Latin summary of related petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735746/

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