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Notification of the King’s confirmation to the earl of Leicester of his lands, fees and liberties

Identity

B85

Title

Notification of the King’s confirmation to the earl of Leicester of his lands, fees and liberties

Beneficiary

Robert de Breteuil earl of Leicester (d. 1204) (People)

Date of issue

23 October 1201

Place of issue

Roche des Andelys (Places)

Sources

B = PRO C 52 (Cartae Antiquae Roll K) no.16, s.xiii in.

Printed

(from B) The Cartae Antiquae Rolls 1-10, ed. L. Landon, Pipe Rolls Society n.s. xvii (1939), i, 141-2 no.299.

Comment

Transcription

Iohannes Dei gratia rex Anglie etc.  Sciatis quod concedimus, volumus et precipimus quod Robertus comes Leircestr’ et heredes sui de nobis et heredibus nostris teneant et habeant omnes terras suas et feoda sua cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus suis bene et in pace et honorifice, libere et quiete de sectis syrarum et hundredorum et auxiliis vicecomitum et de pecunia danda pro murdro et latrocinio et quietantiam de pontagio et passagio de dominicis suis per dominica nostra.  Testibus: Willelmo Marescallo comite de Pembroc, Rannulfo comite Cestrie, Willelmo de Humet constabulario Normannie, Hugone de Gurnaco.  Dat’ per manum Simonis archidiaconi Wellensis apud Rupem Andeliaci xxiii. die Octobris regni nostri anno tercio.

Calendar

Notification that the king has granted to Robert earl of Leicester that he may hold his land of the king freely, with all liberties and customs, quit of suit of shire and hundred court, sheriff’s aid, money to to be paid for murder and robbery, and ponatgium and passagium, in the king’s demesne and his his.

Charters not found in surviving rolls