3rd earl of Lincoln and baron of Pontefract, concerning land at Salthill, for the Burgeys of Clitheroe, single sheet document in Anglo-Norman French on parchment [England (London), dated 8 June 1307] Single sheet, with 24 long lines in a vernacular secretarial hand, some folds and small scuffs, both producing tiny holes affecting only a few letters, small torn away section at foot from removal of seal tag, overall fair and presentable condition, 229 by 120mm., with nineteenth-century transcript and translation of text in envelope Henry de Lacy (c. 1251-1311) was one of the grand statesmen of King Edward I’s reign. His dynasty controlled strategically crucial parts of the north of England, and had long been close to the English monarchy. His father was raised in the court of Henry III, and Henry was himself educated in the royal court, becoming a lifelong friend and confidante of Edward I, serving as his chief councillor and protector of the realm during Edward’s military conflicts with the Scots. Edward subsequently sent him to Rome to explain the necessity of this campaign. He died at his London home, in Lincoln’s Inn, and was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. The present document is also of some importance as a record of Anglo-Norman French. Following the coming of the Normans in 1066, the various dialects of French of William the Conqueror and his northern French allies were forged together to produce a distinct version of the language quite unique to England, and used by the elites there to the beginning of the fifteenth century. Its profound effects on our present language and literature are often overlooked. Indeed, Henry de Lacy made his own small contribution to this literature as the patron or joint composer of a poem about crusading ascribed to Walter of Bibbesworth, La pleinte par entre missire Henry de Lacy et sire Wauter de Bybelesworthe pur la croiserie en la terre seinte. The text recorded here is a record of the language spoken in London and around the Plantagenet royal court at the turn of the fourteenth century, just as it was about to be eclipsed and replaced by English.
3rd earl of Lincoln and baron of Pontefract, concerning land at Salthill, for the Burgeys of Clitheroe, single sheet document in Anglo-Norman French on parchment [England (London), dated 8 June 1307] Single sheet, with 24 long lines in a vernacular secretarial hand, some folds and small scuffs, both producing tiny holes affecting only a few letters, small torn away section at foot from removal of seal tag, overall fair and presentable condition, 229 by 120mm., with nineteenth-century transcript and translation of text in envelope Henry de Lacy (c. 1251-1311) was one of the grand statesmen of King Edward I’s reign. His dynasty controlled strategically crucial parts of the north of England, and had long been close to the English monarchy. His father was raised in the court of Henry III, and Henry was himself educated in the royal court, becoming a lifelong friend and confidante of Edward I, serving as his chief councillor and protector of the realm during Edward’s military conflicts with the Scots. Edward subsequently sent him to Rome to explain the necessity of this campaign. He died at his London home, in Lincoln’s Inn, and was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. The present document is also of some importance as a record of Anglo-Norman French. Following the coming of the Normans in 1066, the various dialects of French of William the Conqueror and his northern French allies were forged together to produce a distinct version of the language quite unique to England, and used by the elites there to the beginning of the fifteenth century. Its profound effects on our present language and literature are often overlooked. Indeed, Henry de Lacy made his own small contribution to this literature as the patron or joint composer of a poem about crusading ascribed to Walter of Bibbesworth, La pleinte par entre missire Henry de Lacy et sire Wauter de Bybelesworthe pur la croiserie en la terre seinte. The text recorded here is a record of the language spoken in London and around the Plantagenet royal court at the turn of the fourteenth century, just as it was about to be eclipsed and replaced by English.
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