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WITH THANKS TO HISTORIAN KATHRYN WARNER AND
HER EXCELLENT BLOG ABOUT THE EVENTS, ISSUES AND
PERSONALITIES OF EDWARD II’S REIGN 1307-1327
http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.com/
[ON THE LEFTSIDE
BELOW
UNDER ”EDWARD’S TITLES, 1312]
EDWARD II’S CORONATION OATH, 25 FEBRUARY 1308
Edward II’s coronation oath: translation
[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]
THE ORIGINAL CORONATION OATH OF KING EDWARD II
WAS IN FRENCH
SEE BELOW
FROM THE EXCELLENT WEBLOG OF HISTORIAN KATHRYN WARNER
SEE THE LEFTSIDE BELOW
UNDER ”EDWARD’S TITLES”
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Sire, will you grant and keep and by your oath confirm to the people of England the laws and customs given to them by the previous just and god-fearing kings, your ancestors, and especially the laws, customs, and liberties granted to the clergy and people by the glorious king, the sainted Edward, your predecessor?
I grant and promise them.
Sire, will you in all your judgments, so far as in you lies, preserve to God and Holy Church, and to the people and clergy, entire peace and concord before God?
I will preserve them.
Sire, will you, so far as in you lies, cause justice to be rendered rightly, impartially, and wisely, in compassion and in truth?
I will do so.
Sire, do you grant to be held and observed the just laws and customs that the community of your realm shall determine, and will you, so far as in you lies, defend and strengthen them to the honour of God?
I grant and promise them.
IN FRENCH [ORIGINAL]
Edward II’s coronation oath, 25 February 1308
FROM THE EXCELLENT WEBLOG OF HISTORIAN KATHRYN WARNER
http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.com/
ON THE LEFTSIDE
UNDER:
EDWARD II’S TITLES
Sire, volez vous graunter, è garder, &, par vostre serment, confermer au poeple d’Engleterre les leys, & les custumes, à eux grauntees par les auntiens Rois d’Engleterre, voz predecessours droitures & devotz a DIEU; & nomement les lois, les custumes, & les fraunchises, grantez au clerge, è au poeple par le glorieus Roi seint Edward, vostre predecessour?
Jeo les grante & promette
Sire, garderez vous à DIEU, & seinte eglise, & au clerge, & au poeple paes, & acord en DIEU entierment, solonc vostre poer?
Jeo les garderai
Sire, freez vous faire, en touz voz jugementz, ovele & droit justice & discretion, en misericorde & verite, à vostre poer?
Jeo le frai
Sire, graunte vous à tenir & garder les loys & les custumes droitureles, les quiels la communaute de vostre roiaume aura esleu, & les defendrez & afforcerez, al honour de DIEU, à vostre poer?
Jeo les graunte & promette.