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Notification of the King’s grant of the moor of Molineaux to Le Fontaine-Guérand

Identity

B149A- delete

Title

Notification of the King’s grant of the moor of Molineaux to Le Fontaine-Guérand

Beneficiary

Le Fontaine-Guérand (Institutions)

Date of issue

15 February 1203

Place of issue

Rouen (Places)

Archive

Evreux AD Eure H1264

Copies

B = Ibid., a copy made 9 May 1670, from A, noting the presence of a green wax seal impression on ?pink (lacs de soye violleste) silk cords.

Seal

Sealed sur double queue, 3 holes for cords, cords and seal impression torn away.

Enrolled

Printed

(from A) Calendar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland: Vol.1. A.D. 918-1206, ed. J. Horace Round (London, 1899), 139 no.418

Scribes

Comment

Various post-medieval endorsements, including Cotté A 1er (s.xviii).  The word Iohan repeated twice on the inside of the fold, presumably as the opening word of a draft never completed.  Approx. 220 X 188 + 38mm. 

For the nuns of Fontaine-Guérand, founded c.1198 by Robert earl of Leicester, see Cottineau 1173; E. Chevalier in Annales de Normandie, lxxvi (1909), 194-201; Potthast, 4280-1.

Photos
Photo of charter
Transcription

Iohannes Dei gratia rex Angl(ie) dominus Hibernie dux Normann(ie) Aquitann(ie) com(es) Andeg(auie) archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, iustic(iis), vicecom(itibus) et omnibus ball(iu)is et fidelibus suis salutem.  Sciatis nos pro salute anime nostre et antecessorum et successorum nostrorum dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta confirmasse in puram et perpetuam elemosinam monialibus de Fontibus Girardi ad edificand(am) abbatiam suam totum alnetum nostrum de Molinell’ cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, et totam terram que fuit Roberti May in eodem alneto quam heredibus suis excambiuimus in Anglia, et fossatum Rascinus et quicquid in eodem alneto habebamus sicut magna via inter Molinell’ et Rothom’ et sicut prefatum fossatum Rascinus de eodem alneto quod se extendit usque in Secanam et sicut caput alneti illius quod se extendit versus Coronam diuidunt usque Secanam preter tres acras quas dedimus leprosis de Quercu Canuta ante domum suam.  Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus quod predicte moniales habeant et teneant omnia predicta bene et in pace, libere et quiete, integre, plenarie et honorifice in omnibus locis et rebus sicut predictum est.  Test(ibus) B(alduino) com(ite) Albemarl’, Will(elm)o de Braos’, Rob(erto) de Harecurt, Hug(one) de Gurnay, Steph(an)o de Longocampo, Guarino de Glapiun, Petro de Stokes.  Dat’ per manum Hug(onis) de Well’ apud Roth’ xv. die Febr(uarii) anno regni nostri quarto.

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