testamentary practices at the comital court in flanders and hainaut her will and execute it correctly.59 As a result, in the same month, November 1257, both Guy de Dampierre and his brother Jean, followed by Baudouin d’Avesnes and his brother Jean, solemnly declared and promised that they would respect and execute their mother’s bequests. This was done by twolittere, each in the form of a writteninspeximus of their mother’s will sealed with their own seals.60 But even that does not seem to have sufficed. In August 1258, Margaret had an additional section of her will recorded by littere inwhich, again for the rectification of her wrongs, she granted an annual rent of 1,100 pounds in Hainaut to the abbot of Loos, one of her testamentary executors. In this document, she obliged her successors, particularly her grandson Jean II d’Avesnes, who had succeeded his father Jean the previous year, to execute every provision of her testament. Moreover, at the end of the text, the countess not only requested the pope to confirm her last charter but also summoned the bishops of Paris, Senlis, Cambrai, and Tournai to help ensure that her will was correctly executed, under penalty of excommunication and interdict on her grandson’s territories.61 In February 1259, Countess Margaret’s initial testament of 1257 was confirmed a third time in the form of another inspeximus, this time by the bishops of Cambrai, Tournai, and Arras.62 It is likely that the clerks who wrote this inspeximus used the exemplar of the earlier version by Guy and Jean de Dampierre (November 1257), since the same error in the dating clause, corrected fromoctobri tonovembri, was copied and then corrected in the inspeximus of the bishops. 464 59 Lille, ADN, BB445/1993 (November 1257). 60 Inspeximus by Guy and Jean de Dampierre: Lille, ADN, B445/1195 and B445/1195(2); and another by Jean and Baudouin d’Avesnes: Lille, ADN, B445/1196. Duvivier 1894, II, pp. 511–513, n. 282 and n. 283. Both engrossments of the first inspeximus were sealed, which suggests that each Dampierre brother might have had his own charter. 61 Lille, ADN, B445/1208. Duvivier 1894, II, pp. 525–528, n. 294. In the same month (August 1258), and for the same reason as in the previous letter, Margaret assigned an annuity of 2,000 pounds in Flanders to the abbot of Loos. This letter was approved by Guy de Dampierre, who, as count of Flanders, was appointed regent by his mother after the death of his elder brother William in 1251. Nowé 1958, col. 425. Lille, ADN, B445/1209. 62 Lille, ADN, B445/1194.
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