GUYENNE. BLAYE. GIRONDE. François de GRAMONT sold the Seigne - Lot 1

GUYENNE. BLAYE. GIRONDE. François de GRAMONT sold the Seigneury and Town of BLAYE, in 1460. Signed "Jehan AUGER Trésorier de France en Guyenne, à Jehan ARTAULT Comptable de BORDEAUX salut. Accomplish the King's letters patent, by paying and delivering to François seigneur de GRAMONT the sum of 5000 gold ecus and to Dame Isabeau de GRAMONT his wife the sum of 1000 ecus... remaining 4000 ecus promised for the reduction of the Ville et Châtel de BLAYE, and of the cens et revenus de la ville de BLAYE. Ensemble de ce qu'ont peu monter le droit qu'ils prétendront avoir sur les revenues... Given January 9, 1460. Parchment (20 x 31 cm) - (In 1410, at the height of the Hundred Years' War, Jean I de Gramont swore an oath of loyalty to King Henry IV of England, on the occasion of his marriage to Marie Montaud, Dame de Mussidan, who brought him the Citadelle de Blaye, key to the Gironde and a protective lock on Bordeaux, as a dowry. This tribute was renewed by François I de Gramont, son of Jean I, in 1439. A few years later, in 1442, sensing the weakening influence of the Kings of England in Aquitaine, he handed over the citadel of Blaye to Charles VII, King of France).