Parchment XIVth century - Lot 382

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Parchment XIVth century - Lot 382
Parchment XIVth century PHILIPPE LE BEL - Guillaume de NOGARET - [PARCHEMIN] Manuscript on parchment in which Philip the Fair gives his orders to pay the wages (or salaries) of his faithful servant, Guillaume de Nogaret, the author of the bellows given to Pope Boniface VIII (July 8, 1304). This knight, originally from Languedoc, who returned to his province, was able to withdraw his funds (800 livres) locally from receipts established in royal towns (in Marsillargues near Nîmes for 300 livres per year - in Calvisson for 500 livres per year). This was a convenience that saved G. de Nogaret from having to go up to Paris each year to collect the funds from the royal treasury (kept by the Templars at that time) or risk taking the money on the roads of France at the risk of brigands. However, the revenues of these two cities were still less than the 800 livres due. It is necessary to find 263 livres 8 sous 9 deniers that the seneschal of Beaucaire is charged to gather in complement to perfect the 800 livres. [Philip by the grace of God, king of France, let it be known to all present and future that we have seen and carefully checked our letters written below, the content of which follows in these terms to the seneschal of Beaucaire or to his lieutenant. As We to our dear and fair Guillaume de Nogaret knight, for 300 livres tournois of annual and perpetual rent that by our donation we mandate you to inquire diligently and to rewrite to us quickly how much, according to the common estimation, and according to what in your seneschaussées for such goods is customary to make in annual and perpetual rent] There follows another letter (Arras, dated 1304) by which Philip the Fair also concedes the land of Calvisson: [ As we conceded to our dear and faithful Guillaume de Nogaret knight, for him and his heirs and successors receiving, for 500 livres tournois of annual and perpetual rent that we must assign to him, our castle of Calvisson with the land of annage and the viguery of the aforementioned castle, territory and district as well as the fiefs, men, Item our other letters of which the content follows by donation to our dear Guillaume de Nogaret, knight, to his heirs and successors, we affected to the aforementioned knight in perpetual inheritance the city of Marcillargues with its territory and district and in addition our possessions in the city of St-Julien, its territory and district, and all our possessions located in the tenement called ports in simple fief (except the suzerainty of the other feudatories and the rights of the parsonages present on the said territory) (Lyon, January 3, 1305) by the said knight and to render them to us and to our successors by him and his successors to hold them in fief and to possess them in perpetuity by him and his successors with the increases and improvements we want that to the said knight and his successors - when the things would exceed in value the estimation at which they were assigned to him - that it can be made claim or return, except in all things our right and right of others. (February 1309)]. Old parchment, size 66x54 cm, folds in old traces of closing. Act with repetitive and confused style. We hold at the disposal (on request) a complete copy of the document. Marsillargues remained the fief of the family of Guillaume de Nogaret. Guillaume or Guilhem de Nogaret (around 1260 -1313) is a French jurist, native of Languedoc, who became adviser of the king of France Philippe IV le Bel, his guard of the Seal. He was, from 130, the real master of the royal policy with Enguerrand de Marigny. The attack of Anagni against the pope Boniface VIII, the trial of the Templars and many other affairs made of Nogaret a black figure of the historiography. If he was certainly "a devious and unscrupulous politician", "cunning, calculating, shameless, manipulative, cynical enough to resort to lies and injustice". On the other hand, Nogaret can be seen as "the pioneer of the royal theocracy", because he was "the theologian, the prophet and the imprecator as well as the zealous agent, always combining the boldness of political action and the mystical fervor of religious motivations". On March 12, 1303, during a solemn assembly held in the Louvre in the presence of Philip the Fair, Guillaume de Nogaret gave a speech in which he accused Boniface VIII of heresy, who had threatened the king with deposition, and demanded that a general council be convened to examine his case. Boniface VIII was preparing, in response, to promulgate a sentence of excommunication against the king when, with their small army, Nogaret and Colonna entered the city by surprise. The papal palace was stormed and the pope taken prisoner. Nogaret's objective was probably to bring him back to France to
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