POPE INNOCENT VI LAND ACQUISITION DOCUMENT ON LARGE PARCHMENT - AVIGNON - 1358

Description

POPE INNOCENT VI LETTER Dated February 22, 1358 - Rare Manuscript on Parchment
from the Reign of PHILIP
An interesting lot consisting of two rare parchments from the same archive (possibly royal) and a bulla lead seal.
Possibly from Royal Archive -
There is a clear note on the reverse side of the Document:
"EX ARHIVII CAROLI MOVRR NOT.HON.
As it follows from the description of the reverse side of the first document, this is a land acquisition by the Avignon Pope Innocent VI from the nobleman Bertrand D’Auran (yer?) Dated February 22, 1358.
Size: 27" x 20" (68 cm x 50 cm)
The second half of the 13th century was a troubled period. During the numerous truces during the Hundred Years War between France and England disengaged mercenaries formed the "Great Companies." For their own account they pillaged and massacred the villages, sowing terror wherever they went. Some came to Avignon, attracted by the concentration of wealth. In 1357 and 1358, the County of Venaissin was devastated, and Avignon dangerously menaced. To avoid this danger, the pope paid a ransom.
Arnaud de Cervole’s plundering of Provence in 1357-1358 had caused Innocent VI to begin the great fortification of Avignon, which were sorely needed, for after the futile efforts to make peace between France and England in the two treaties of London (in January, 1358, and March 1359), the Dauphin Charles and the Black Prince reached an agreement at Bretigny in the region of Beauce on 8 May, 1360.
(The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
By Kenneth Meyer Setton)