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Add Ch 12634
- Record Id:
- 040-002137224
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002137220
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001527.0x0002ef
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140413.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 12634
- Title:
- Acknowledgement by Guy, count of Flanders, and Isabeau, his wife, countess of Namur, of a debt to Raoul de Harcout
- Scope & Content:
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Acknowledgement by Guy [de Dampierre, d. 1305], count of Flanders and marquis of Namur, and Isabeau [of Luxembourg, 1247-98], his wife, countess of Namur, of a debt to their clerk Raoul de Harcout of 150 gros livres tournois; dated 1294. The recto also features a summary of the charter's contents written in an 18th-century hand.
Endorsed: in a mid-19th century hand, ‘Ray’s sale / 26 July 1856 / /Lot 1005/’.
Affixed with four seals. The first, an imperfect equestrian seal of Guy, oval, brown, with the count armed and armoured on a horse, a lion rampant on his shield, with the fragmentary legend, ‘Gui… …landr…’. Reverse: a counterseal, with a heraldic shield with a lion rampant., and the fragmentary legend, ‘sg… …uidon comitis flandrie’.
The second, an imperfect seal of Isabeau, lozenge, brown, with a full-length image of Isabeau in a long dress and headdress, holding a fleur-de-lys in her right hand, her left hand on her chest, standing on a carved corbel, a heraldic shield on each side, on the right the lion rampant of Flanders and Namur, on the left the five bars a lion rampant of Luxembourg, with the legend, ‘s[igillum] elyzabeth comitisse namucensis’. Reverse: a counterseal, with a heraldic shield with a lion rampant, and the legend, ‘secret[um] e[lyzabeth] comitisse namucensis’.
The third, an imperfect equestrian seal of Robert de Dampierre, oval, brown, with Robert armed and armoured on a horse, a lion rampant on his shield, and the fragmentary legend, ‘si… …s flandri…’. Reverse: a counterseal, with a heraldic shield with a lion rampant, and the legend, ‘secretu[m] rob[er]ti comitis nivern[ensis]’.
The fourth, an imperfect equestrian seal of Guillaume de Dampierre, oval, brown, with Guillaume armed and armoured on a horse, a lion rampant on his shield, differenced with a bendlet or baton, with the legend, ‘sigillum guillelmi filii co… s… fland…’. Reverse: a counterseal, with a heraldic shield with a lion rampant, differenced with a bendlet or baton, with the legend, ‘[con]t[ra]s[igillum] g[uillelmi] filii comitis flandrie’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), V, pp. 534, 536, 543, 666).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002137220
040-002137224 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 12631-12686 : MISCELI,ANEOUS collection of grants of lands in England, of documents chiefly relating to the English wars in France, and…
Add Ch 12634 : Acknowledgement by Guy, count of Flanders, and Isabeau, his wife, countess of Namur, of a debt to Raoul de Harcout - Hierarchy:
- 032-002137220[0004]/040-002137224
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 12631-12686
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140413.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1294
- End Date:
- 1294
- Date Range:
- 1294
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 340 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum at Mr H. B. Ray’s sale at Christie’s, 23-26 July 1856, together with Add Chs 12631-12826.
- Publications:
- Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), V, pp. 534, 536, 543, 666.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)