PRESCRIBES THAT THE SEALS OF ROBERT BISHOP OF NANTES, GEOFFREY`D...

1181, prescribes that the seals of Robert bishop of Nantes, Geoffrey`dux Britannie' and Peter ®tzGuy, seneschal of Nantes, should beattached.

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It appears that when the document was drafted, no later thanAugust 1181, the nuns of Fontevraud thought that Geoffrey would beexercising ducal authority in the county of Nantes, although they werealso aware that Henry II's seneschal still held of®ce there. In fact onlythe seals of the bishop and the seneschal were ever attached.

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It appearsthat Henry II retained the county of Nantes in his own hands until 1185or even early 1186.There are only two known charters of Geoffrey made at Nantes. Oneis dated 1186, the other is undated, but there is no evidence whichrequires it to have been made before 1186. Nor are there any acts ofDuke Geoffrey concerning monasteries or property situated in thecounty of Nantes dated before 1186. No barons of the county of Nantesappear as witnesses to ducal charters except in the two charters made atNantes just mentioned. If Geoffrey had acquired lordship of Nantes in