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XI The Earl of Salisbury v. the Duke of Bedford
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
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The interest of this suit, between a leading member of the English nobility and the regent himself, lies in the attempt of the earl of Salisbury, as count of Perche, to whom the king had granted the lordship of Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, to free himself from the jurisdiction of the duke of Bedford, as duke of Alençon. Both sides agreed that a commission of enquiry should be set up to establish the facts, and to collect the revenues which might be lost while the suit was being settled.
The case was conducted chiefly through an appeal to precedent in an attempt to establish the historical accuracy of the claims which Bedford was making and which Salisbury was seeking to deny him. The court finally decided that the contentious lands should be taken into the hands of the crown until further information could be found to assist the court in making a decision. Shortly afterwards, however, Salisbury was to die of wounds received at the siege of Orléans, and the suit remained unresolved.
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- Camden Fourth Series , Volume 26: English Suits Before the Parlement of Paris 1420–1436 , July 1982 , pp. 141 - 147
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- Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1982
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page 141 note a monseigneur le regent due de Bedford interlined over Pierre le Verrat, struck out
page 141 note b In the margin
1 For the earl of Salisbury, see appendix II. The grant to him of the county of Perche was dated 26 April 1419 (D.K.R., xli, 772).Google Scholar
2 John, duke of Bedford, was regent of France for his nephew, Henry VI.
3 It was customary for suits from the bailliage of the Vermandois to be heard at the beginning of the annual sitting of the Parlement in November.
4 Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, Eure-et-Loir, arr. Dreux.
page 142 note a pertinent interlined
page 142 note b Followed by de
page 142 note c …c These words interlined
page 142 note d que interlined
5 Kvreux, Eure. The bailli was Richard Waller (Gallia Regia, iii, 283).Google Scholar
6 After 30 May 1428.
page 143 note a In the margin
page 143 note b MS damaged at this point
7 Salisbury was at the same time in litigation against the bishop of Chartres, Jean de Fitigny (see appendix I). He was away in England gathering an army, and returned to France on 1 July.
8 Jean Aguenin was second président of the Parlement.
9 Jean, duke of Alençon, was taken prisoner at the battle of Verneuil on 17 August 1424; he was released in 1427.
10 Brézolles, Eure-et-Loir, arr. Dreux.
page 144 note a Followed by d'Alencon, struck out
page 144 note b Followed by so, struck out
11 King Philip IV gave the counties of Alençon and Perche to his brother, Charles de Valois, in 1293. The genealogical passage which follows is inaccurate. See Jordan, A., Généalogie et héraldique des Capétiens (Ain-Sabaa, Maroc, 1953), pp. 6, 212.Google Scholar
12 Charles d'Alençon became archbishop of Lyon in May 1365. He was a grandson, not a son, of the first Valois count.
13 In 1359. He died in 1404.
14 Killed at Agincourt in October 1415.
15 These were occasions when a feudal lord held ‘grands jours’ employing his own and royal officials who dispatched local appeals on the spot. See Lot & Fawtier, Histoire des institutions, i, 222, 315.Google Scholar
16 This was an area around Verneuil, which had originally constituted a frontier, after the annexation of Normandy to France by Philip-Augustus in the early thirteenth century.
17 25 October 1415.
page 145 note a Followed by d, struck out
page 145 note b MS a
18 Senonches, Eure-et-Loir, arr. Dreux.
19 These were not baillis in ihe strict meaning of the word, but probably only superior officers.
20 Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, arr. Evreux.
21 Henry V.
22 Philip VI to his brother Charles, count of Alençon.
23 Bellême, Orne, arr. Mortagne-au-Perche.
24 Is this the ‘Tour Grise’ at Verneuil (referred to in Les chroniques du roi Charles VII (ed. Courteault, H. and Celier, L., SHF., Paris, 1979), p. 296Google Scholar) which survives to this day?
page 147 note a In the margin
page 147 note b MS Brussoles
25 Philippe de Morvilliers was first président of the Parlement 1418–33.