The letter had attached to it the seals of the original confederates (the Earls of Leicester, Gloucester and Norfolk, Peter of Savoy, Hugh Bigod, John FitzGeoffrey and Peter de Montfort) and Earls of Hereford and Warwick, the Count of Aumale and James of Audley
It states: “The lord King, realizing the intolerable burden of this business and the feeble condition of the Kingdom wished and expressly conceded that the “reformation” should be effected by the Counsel of his magnates, without whom he could neither manage his affairs nor prosecute the Sicilian business”.
Was this the "letter" the manifesto of the barons which was sent with Mansuetus to the Papal Court on 1 August 1258, or another letter?
2006-06-07
05:20:57
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