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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Michigan--Kalamazoo
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1324
14. century
1324Gregorian
1324Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : paper ; 100 x 237 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Ms. document.
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Order from Aimeri du Cros (Aymericus de Croso), knight, seneschal of the King of France, Charles IV (the Fair), for Périgord and Quercy, to the king's baliff of Maurencx (Maurens, canton Villamblard, Dordogne) to come with armed men and horses to Lausertam (Lauzerte, Tarn et Garonne, SW of Cahors) on Thursday, March 15th, next to "Montedome" (Mont de Domme, canton Domme, Dordogne). Dated 25...
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Paper, written in brown ink, in a highly abbreviated French documentary script. A few worm holes. 1323 is written on the dorso by a latter hand. On the bottom right-hand corner of the recto are the following words, written in pencil: In the feast of St. Mathies. 24 February 1323-4. Charles IV of France & Navarre.
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France, 1323-1324. Guyenne and Gascony were held by the English on terms of homage to the French kings, but were confiscated by the kings of France in 1296 and 1324 on the ground of failure of feudal duties. Thus 1324-5 have been described as those "two years of war" (Chaplais, 80). Edward III acquired full sovereignty of Guyenne in 1360; France regained it in 1451. The territory of Guyenne, a...
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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