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Add Ch 77732
- Record Id:
- 032-002560783
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002560783
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022546017.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140767.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 77732
- Title:
- Notarial copy of the negotiations for the marriage of Prince Edward of England (the future King Edward II) and Philippa, daughter of Count Guy of Flanders, 31 October 1299
- Scope & Content:
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Peteghem Castle, Flanders: 31 October 1299
In 1294, negotiations began for the marriage of Prince Edward of England and Philippa, daughter of Count Guy of Flanders. Agreement was reached in 1297, by which time Philippa had been taken into French custody. The Anglo-Flemish marriage agreement was annulled by Pope Boniface VIII in 1298. Edward was subsequently betrothed to Isabella, daughter of King Philip IV of France.
Anthony Bek, bishop of Durham, was entrusted with the Anglo-Flemish marriage negotiations in 1294. The present document was drawn up by the notary Symon Pauli of Courtrai for Count Guy of Flanders in 1299, after the marriage agreement had been annulled. It describes the promises made by Anthony Bek in 1294, and demonstrates that William de Valence, earl of Pembroke, had already agreed to the marriage in writing.
The marriage negotiations are known from four documentary sources:
1. the instructions of King Edward I to Anthony Bek, 20 June 1294 (printed in Rymer’s Fœdera, I.ii.803, ‘Ex Litt. & Autogr. Edw. I. in Turr. Lond.’)
2. the promises made by Anthony Bek to Count Guy on 31 August 1294 (the present document, unedited)
3. the marriage agreement, 2 February 1297 (printed in Rymer’s Fœdera, I.ii.856, from London, The National Archives, E 30/27)
4. the annulment of the marriage agreement by Boniface VIII, 30 June 1298 (London, The National Archives, SC 7/7/19)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002560783
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002560783
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140767.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1299
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 1299
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Parchment; 390 × 392 mm; 6-line pen-flourished initial ‘I’; monogram of Symon Pauli, notary, of Courtrai; Latin (contemporary endorsement in Latin; post-medieval title on dorse in French)
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Written at Peteghem Castle, Flanders, by Symon Pauli, notary of Courtrai, 31 October 1299.
Provenance:
(1) (?)Guy (I) of Dampierre, count of Flanders (d. 1304);
(2) Sir Thomas Phillipps (d. 1872), his MS. 27720;
(3) R. Marriott, 1971: bought at Sotheby’s for £90 ($216);
(4) Dr Richard Gorman Fricker of West Wickham (d. 1 August 2003);
(5) Phillip Cox of West Wickham, 2008;
(6) purchased by the British Library in 2009.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Phillippica: Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Manuscripts formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872), New Series, VII (Sotheby & Co., London, 14 June 1971), lot 1419 (p. 22)
Catalogue of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures (Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 1981), lot 34 (p. 22) - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)