Holinshed's Chronicles

Piers Cleret

Family: France · Role: master of the French king's household · First appears: Edward IV 32

Life events

  • c. 1474 · Louis XI gave William Hastings an annual pension of two thousand crowns, delivered by Piers Cleret.(Edward IV 32 · 📍 Paris)
    • With: Louis XI William Hastings, Baron Hastings
    • “Beside this, he gaue him yearelie two thousand crownes pension, the which summe he sent to him by Piers Cleret, one of the maisters of his house, giuing him in charge to receiue of him an acquittance for the receipt of the same pension”

Edward IV 32

  • with Louis XI (Piers Cleret acted as the French king's agent in delivering the pension.) “the which summe he sent to him by Piers Cleret, one of the maisters of his house, giuing him in charge to receiue of him an acquittance for the receipt of the same pension”
  • sworn: Louis XI “the which summe he sent to him by Piers Cleret, one of the maisters of his house”

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