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Second Seal of Causes of Abbeville

Holding Institution: Archives Nationales (Paris)
Catalog number: F3839
Date: 1409
Location: Picardy

Size: 55 mm

Municipal seal
Abbeville


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Description:
 Figure of an equestrian in a helmet, holding a sword; his shield and the cloth of his horse show three bands; in the field, a fleur de lis on either side; appended to an act of April 1409: publication of a treaty of free passage between the ports of Abbeville and Winchelsey

Transcription:
 [s]igillum co[m]munie abbatis[ville] ad cau[sas]

Reference:
 Demay, Germain. Inventaire des sceaux de la Flandre. Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1873.