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XIX Robert Stafford v. Lord Talbot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

Extract

On 4 February 1428 Lord Talbot received from Henry VI grant of lands in the ‘bailliages’ of Rouen and Caux, and elsewhere, which had been confiscated from Robert Stafford because, it was alleged, the town and castle of La Ferté-Bernard, of which he was captain, had, by his negligence, been captured by the enemy in February 1427.

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References

1 The background to this suit may be found in Charles, R., ‘L'invasion anglaise dans le Maine de 1417 à 1428’, Revue historique el archéologique du Maine, xxv (1889), 62103, 167208, 305–27Google Scholar. Some of these texts were partially published as pièces justificatives vii ix, pp. 202–8.Google Scholar

2 For a similar accusation of surrendering without siege, see Keen, , Laws of War, p. 120Google Scholar, n. 4; and for a parallel case, see the pardon granted to Sir William Bishopston on 12 December 1431, printed in Le Cacheux, P., Actes de la Chancellerie d'Henri VI concernant la Normandie sous la domination anglaise (1422–1435) (Rouen: Paris, 1908), ii, pp. 157–60Google Scholar, from A.N., JJ 175, no 16.

3 For Lord Talbot, sec appendix II.

4 Rouen, Seine-Maritime.

5 Caux, the region to the north of Rouen.

6 For Robert Stafford, see appendix II.

7 La Ferté-Bernard, Sarthe, arr. Mamers.

8 i.e., Henry V.

9 In February 1427.

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10 Jean de Rinel was probably the most important royal secretary of the day.

11 This text is printed in Fauquembergue, ii, 348–50Google Scholar. Jean L'Espine was the greffier criminel in whose register a record of the suit might have been found.

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12 Guillaume Intrant was an avocat in the Parlement.

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13 Talbot served in Wales in 1407 and was appointed royal lieutenant in Ireland for a period of six years in February 1414 (Complete Peerage, xi, 698–9).Google Scholar

14 i.e., at the sieges of Dreux (Eure-et-Loir) in July August 1421 and Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) from October 1421 to May 1422, both carried out by Henry V.

15 Pontorson, Manche, arr. Avranches. Thomas Lound also claimed to have taken part in these events in the spring of 1427 (see no VIII, n. 25).

16 Le Mans, Sarthe. These events, which occurred in May 1428, are described in no XVII, and in Charles, , ‘Invasion anglaise’, 194–6.Google Scholar

17 Laval, Mayenne.

18 Orleans, Loiret. The siege lasted from October 1428 until May 1429.

19 He was captured at Patay on 18 June 1429, and was a prisoner for about four years.

20 The earl of Salisbury, for whom see appendix II.

21 A reference to the Bastide in Paris, which would be known to members of the court.

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22 Sir John Salvain.

23 All such grants would have been registered in the Chambre des Comptes.

24 Thomas, duke of Clarence, brother of Henry V, killed at the battle of Baugé on 22 March 1421.

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25 Guillaume le Duc had been third président of the Parlement since February 1432.

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27 Robert Piedefer was appointed first président in February 1433.

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