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Add Ch 7483
- Record Id:
- 032-002123107
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002123107
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000038.0x000063
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140740.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 7483
- Title:
- Grant by Edward III to Isabella, his daughter, of a dowry for her marriage to Louis, count of Flanders
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Edward III to Isabella (b. 1332, d. 1382), his daughter, of a dowry for her marriage to Louis II (b. 1330, d. 1384), count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel. Edward promises land and money, including 25000 livres parisis of Flanders per year; given at Bergues [then in the County of Flanders, now in France], 14 March 1347.
The marriage never went ahead. Louis had been pressured into the betrothal by the Flanders guilds, who wanted an English alliance, but he managed to escape his subjects while hawking and fled to the French court.
Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, ‘Fuis [illegible] du marriage de Loys conte de / Flander et de Isabel cussave fille du roy / anglet[er]re’; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Mariages / Lettres par lesquelles Edouard / le Roy d’Angleterre promet de payei les summes conteinier / par le braitté de marriage / de Louys counte de Flandres / et d’Ysabel fille du Roy / d’Angleterre. / Beughes le 14 Mars 1346’.
Affixed with an imperfect great seal of Edward III, oval, brown, with the king enthroned beneath a gothic canopy, an orb in his left hand, his throne flanked by lions, a heraldic shield in a niche on each side, with the legend, ‘edwardus dei gratia rex francie et anglie et dominus hibernie’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), I, p. 25).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002123107
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002123107
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140740.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1347
- End Date:
- 1347
- Date Range:
- 14 Mar 1347
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 330 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Bergues, France.
Provenance:
Louis II, count of Flanders, Nevers, and Rethel, 1347.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby's, 3 February 1857, lot 23 (see inscription, dorse).
- Publications:
- Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), I, p. 25.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)