1523 INDENTURE DEED VELLUM FRANCE COMMUNE PONTOISE

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Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE!THIS IS PART OF A GROUP OF EARLY INDENTURES RELATED TO PROPERTIES IN FRANCE MOSTLY IN THE AREA OF PONTOISE 25 km OUTSIDE OF PARIS

THIS IS IN LATIN CONCERNS THECOMMUNE OF PONTOISE AND IS DATED 30th June 1523

EXACT SUBJECT UNKNOWN THOUGH IT DOES COME WITH A FRENCH TRANSLATION

SIZE 12 BY 9 INCHES

CREASED WHERE FOLDED

Gradually Pontoise grows and becomes a city;the passage of theOiseis no longer in the old way but with a new bridge built around1070.Louis VI(1081-1137) vehemently defends theFrench Vexin, western border of his royal domain, against multiple assaults the Duke of Normandy.The city is surrounded by a wall, the bridge over the Oise was rebuilt in stone and fortified and powerful royal castle overlooking the city and the Oise, then rebuilt from1103to1122.He became one of the places of residence of favoriteCapétiensincludingPhilip AugustusandSt. Louis.Kings make coin currency in Pontoise, part of their field.

At the end of theeleventhcenturyamonastery, originally founded in Pontoise Street Cutlery, is entering the St. Martin plateau.The monks have rightFair1170, they sell the wine produced in the surrounding vineyards and herring.This is the origin of thecurrent fair of Saint Martin.By tradition, still drinking it now wine from the hills of the region, \"ginglet\".In the city, handicrafts, leather and textile industry are booming.

In1188,Philip Augustusgives the town acommunal charterin exchange for the assumption by the citizens of the city\'s fortification work and a serviceost.The charter gives ample legal and administrative autonomy and recognizes the existence of the mayor(major)and peers(pares)is an essential date in the history of the city.Pontoise is then an important commercial and artisanal site on the outskirts of Paris.Wheat production, Vexin andPicardie, passing through.During thexiicentury,during theViosnewas built for economic purposes.Many mills are installed, flour mills but also tan mills for the processing of leather and fulling mills for sheets.The creation of the Our Lady suburb outside the walls of the enclosure, dates back to that time.English workers come to work the sheet.The city of Pontoise takes a form that will last until theeighteenthcenturyand who still see today in the layout of its streets in the walls.We can also easily find the route of the walls within the fragmented.

In1204, Philip Augustus annex Normandy, which reduces its strategic position but increases in return for its security.From the reign ofSaint Louis, Pontoise became a royal residence.His mother,Blanche of Castile, then based on the other side of theabbey of Maubuisson, last Capetian monastic establishment, in which it was buried.Thethirteenthcenturywas the era of prosperity.The city has several parishes and abbeys: Saint-Martin, Saint-Mellon, St. Peter, to the convent schools;Saint-Maclou, St. Andrew, St. Mellon, St. Peter, to the parish churches.A House of God, a kind of medieval hospital is located on the square of the small Martroy.St. Louis did transfer it in1256on the banks of the Oise about the location of the old pool.The Notre-Dame was built and installed Cordeliers convent outside the walls (the current Town Hall is within the walls of this former convent).

The capture of the city by the British, by Martial d\'Auvergne.A censusin 1332has2150 lights,or8 000to10 000 inhabitantswhich is considerable and in fact one of the main cities of the kingdom;it was not until thetwentiethcenturyto find an equivalent population (the city has8492 inhabitantsin1906).It houses several markets andfairs, corporations are powerful (bakers, butchers).The prosperity of its commerce and industry attracts bourgeois and foreign financiers,Jews,Lombards, English.This is an era of development for the whole of Europe.

October 30, 1309, a southwest wind storm toppled the pinnacle of St. Machut church.In1337, begins theHundred Years War(commonly divided into two periods, to 13371380and1415to1453) that reinforces the military character of Pontoise Castle.In these disorders are added several epidemics ofplaguewhich are responsible for the death of one in eight.Pontoise is relatively spared during the first period of theHundred Years War.In1368is built the Saint-Jacques hospital for pilgrims toCompostela;the facade of the building is still visible today, Grand Godet Street.

Thefifteenthcenturyis the era of decline.Although heavily fortified, the city passed repeatedly in the hands of the English.Indeed, in1417, the English took the city, then it is the turn of theBurgundiansin1419.Released in1436, the city was reconquered by the English the following year.She\'s definitely taken by the King of France in1441after a grueling three-month siege.Fighting and looting have destroyed the city that is not a major trading place;many buildings, including the Notre Dame, are destroyed.During the occupation, the Duke of Bedford, regent of the kingdom, connected Pontoise the bailiwick ofGisors, that is to say in Normandy, depriving the city of all administrative and political importance.

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