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179:, according to which he "undertakes to leave the English party and to serve faithfully the King of France" at the cost of restitution in his favor "of the castles and lands of Beauvoir-sur-Mer, ĂŽle-Chauvet, Bouin and Lampant" which had been seized in 1349, by Galois de la Heuse, sovereign captain for the King in Poitou.
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Chancellery of France: 1348-1369, vol. III, t. September 1350, Poitiers, Impr. Oudin, coll. “Historical Archives of Poitou”, 1881-1958 ( BnF notice n o FRBNF30551581, read online
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