Letter signed.

Filomarino della Rocca, Jacques, vice legate of Avignon (fl. 1776-1787).

Verlag: Avignon, 6. VIII. 1778.

Beschreibung

4to. 2 pp. on bifolium. To Antoine des Bertrand de Pelissier, seigneur d'Eyroles, concerning the death of his elder brother and the inheritance of the fiefdom of Eyroles. The letter is to remind the recipient of his duty to ask officially for recognition of his inheritance and to swear an oath of allegiance before the Apostolic chamber of the Comtat Venaissin in Carpentras within a certain period that was nearing its end. In view of the old age and infirmities of the recipient, Filomarino della Rocca offers him to just sign the oath instead of having to go to Carpentras: "Remonte que par le decés de Messire Jean François Betrand de Pelissier son frère la terre et seigneurie d'Eyrolles au Comtat Venaissin a passé sur sa tête sans qu'il aye encore prêté hommage à la R[évéren]de Chambre. Le tems porté pour le droit est sur le point d'expirer, et à même peut-être expiré. L'age du supliant [!] et ses infirmités l'ont empêché de se rendre en la ville de Carpentras pour y prêter hommage [.]". - The Comtats Venaissin and Avignon were ruled by the Papal legates of Avignon since 1433, thirty years after the last antipope Benedict XIII had been expelled from the city. From 1542, vice legates took over the actual administration of the two enclaves. Pope Alexander VIII was the last legate of Avignon at his death in 1691, as the rule of Avignon and Venaissin was subsequently shifted to the vice legates. Jacques Filomarino della Rocca served as the penultimate vice legate of Avignon before its annexation by revolutionary France in 1790/91. - Counter-signed by the registrar Balthazar Vigne and another official named "A. Giorgi". Old dampstains affecting some of the text but no loss to text. Several tears due to moisture and somewhat brittle. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 57684

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Letter signed.

Verlag: Avignon, 6. VIII. 1778.

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers