BIB_ID
130105
Accession number
MA 645
Creator
Philip IV, King of France, 1268-1314.
Display Date
The 15th day after the feast of St. Barnabas, 1300 [Jun. 15].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : paper ; 9.8 x 29.5 cm
Notes
8 lines.
Henry III swore fealty to Louis IX on 4 December 1259.
Signed in the name of the king "P[ro] d[omi]no Rege" above a seal (which has been excised).
The date 1300 has been changed to make it appear as 1200.
With a note in French in a later hand summarizing Henry's 1254 declaration of fealty.
Henry III swore fealty to Louis IX on 4 December 1259.
Signed in the name of the king "P[ro] d[omi]no Rege" above a seal (which has been excised).
The date 1300 has been changed to make it appear as 1200.
With a note in French in a later hand summarizing Henry's 1254 declaration of fealty.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1910.
Summary
Declaring that he had seen in the ancient archives another document dated the day after the feast of St. Andrew, [Nov. 30] 1259, commemorating the agreement whereby King Henry III of England rendered homage and swore fealty to King Louis IX of France.
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