1344-01-20, Westminster

Unclassified date: inferred Regnal year 18 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 2d

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Dated in source: “Jan. 20” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 2d (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To Alfonso, king of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Galicia, Seville, Cordova, Murcia, Jaen, Algarves and Algeciras and lord of the county of Molina. The king is sending to him brother John, prior of the cathedral chureh of Rochester, professor of theology, and William Trussel, knight, who are in the duchy of Aquitaine with other lieges, whom the king has appointed his special envoys to treat with Alfonso concerning the alliance and friendship between their royal houses and upon the marriage between Alfonso's eldest son and the king's daughter Joan and of her dower; the king requests Alfonso to give his confidence and consideration to the said envoys. [Federa.]

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