Berengaria of Navarre's letter to King Henry III of England, dated October 1225

Sources:

https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/766.html

Letters of royal and illustrious ladies of Great Britain, from the commencement of the twelfth century to the close of the reign of Queen Mary, volume 1, edited by Mary Anne Everett Wood, H. Colburn, London, 1846

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075905988&view=1up&seq=65

Above: Berengaria of Navarre, queen consort of England, artist unknown.

Above: King Henry III of England.

The letter:

Domino et carissimo nepoti suo Henrico, Dei gratia rei Angliae, domino Hiberniae, duci Normanniae et Aquitaniae, et comiti Andegaviae, Berengaria eadem gratia humilis quondam Angliae regina, salutem, et prosperos ad vota successus.

Rogavimus vos per literas nostras patentes, per fratrem Gualterum de Persano capellanum nostrum Cisterciensis ordinis vobis missas, quatenus per eundem fratrem Gualterum, et per magistrum Simonem clericum nostros mittetis nobis mille marcas sterlingorum, quas nobis debetis in hoc festo Omnium Sanctorum, de compositione nostri dotalitii, inter vos et nos solemniter celebrata. Verum quoniam dictus magister Simon aegritudine detentus ad vos accedere non potest, loco ejus vobis mittimus latorem praesentium Martinum servientem nostrum, rogantes attentius quod per dictum fratrem Gualterum et per istum Martinum praedictas mille marcas nobis transmittatis, vel per eorum alterum, si forte, aliquo casu impediente, ad vos ambo accedere non poterunt. In cujus rei testimonium vobis praesentes literas nostras patentes destinamus.

Datum Cenomaniae, die Dominica proxima ante festum Apostolorum Simonis et Judae, mense Octobris, anno Domini mccxxv.

English translation (from source 2):

To her lord and dearest nephew Henry, by God's grace illustrious king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and earl of Anjou, Berengaria, by the same grace formerly the humble queen of England, wishes health and prosperous success to his utmost desires.

We requested you by our letters patent, sent to you by Friar Walter de Persona, our chaplain of the Cistercian order, that you would send to us by the said Friar Walter and Master Simon, our clerks, 1000 marks sterling, which you owe us at this feast of All Saints, according to the composition of our dowry solemnly grown out between us and you. But since the said Master Simon, being detained by sickness, cannot come over to you, we send in his stead our servant Martin, the bearer of these presents, earnestly requesting you to send us the thousand marks by the said Friar Walter, and by this Martin, or by one of them, if by any chance impediment both cannot come to you. In testimony of which we send you our present letters patent. Given at Mans, the Sunday next before the Feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude, in the month of October, the year of our Lord 1225.