Western Michigan University, WMU MS 155

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DS ID:

DS6428

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 155

Title:

Order, 1324 February 25, from Aimerie du Cros

Date:

1324

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : paper ; 100 x 237 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. document.
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...
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.
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...

Keyword:

Military orders

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21348588430002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222486~160197/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University