Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen

by Sara Cockerill

  5. Itinerary, Morris pp. 202–3, Morris Edward I and the Knights of the Round Table (preferring the 1285 date to the usual 1290 date) Saul pp. 80–1, 86–89

  6. RWH 1285–6 424, Itinerary, Parsons Q&S pp. 188–9, Beresford pp. 295, 297–8, Rose-Troup Exeter Vignettes pp. 38–53

  7. CPR (1281–92) p. 213 AM ii 403, Prestwich p. 322 C13 p. 255 Morris p. 203

  8. Parsons Q&S p. 160, 167, 168, 172, 186, 193

  9. RWH 1285–6 56, 226, 346, Green Vol 2 p. 295, Parsons C&H p. 23. On the mensura Johnstone Wardrobe and Household of Henry p. 15, note 1

  10. Foedera 664, 665, RWH 2005–6, Parsons C&H p. 50, Itinerary, Salzman p. 83, Prestwich p. 323, Morris p. 204

  11. Foedera 667, 668, 669, truce 670, AM ii p. 403–4, RWH 2004, 2009, C13 255–6 Prestwich p. 323, Clifford p. 86

  12. RWH 1285–6 596, 611 Foedera 678, AM ii p. 404 Flores p. 65, RG vol 2 No 916, C13 pp. 311–2, Green vol 2 p. 301, Clifford p. 91, Howell 300 Crawford Letters pp. 66–7

  13. Salzman p. 83 Trivet 313. This story is missing from AM ii 404, and Flores iii 65–6 which simply have Edward falling ill later in the trip. Foedera 668–70 Morris p. 207, Prestwich p. 323–4, Itineraire p. 168

  14. Prestwich p. 324 RWH 1285–6 pp. 66–8, 70–4, 147–56, 200–1 RWH 1287–89 E36/201 no 64, Parsons C&H p. 24

  15. Itineraire p. 171 Examples of horse related trivia: RWH 22, 59, 91 On Eleanor’s illness: RWH 3244 Parsons Q&S pp. 163, 168, 171

  16. Itineraire RWH 1286–9 xii, 66 Parsons C&H 130, Salzman p. 83

  17. Itineraire, RWH 785, 1618, Salzman p. 84 apparently based on AM ii p. 404 Flores p. 65–6

  18. Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes 269–70, RWH no 31 849, 1619, Morris p. 368

  19. AM ii p. 404Prestwich p. 324 Morris p. 209

  20. Salzman pp. 84–5 94–5 Prestwich Plantagenet England pp. 136–7 Huscroft Expulsion p. 146, Mundhill England’s Jewish Solution p. 66, 280, Trabut-Cussac p. 313, Richardson 225–6, Korlach Masters of the World Vol 2 p. 177 C13 p. 282–4 Martinez pp. 419–20. Although Prestwich rejects a financial motive for the Gascon expulsion, the fact remains that Edward was as usual pressed for money; and that he did take the money liquidated by the expulsion. However, he and Huscroft are obviously right to reject the argument that the expulsion was to fund Charles of Salerno’s ransom; the chronology simply does not fit.

  21. RWH 1619, 1767, 3239, 4343, Parsons Q&S pp. 160, 163, 172 195, Salzman p. 85 Itineraire p. 178

  22. Itineraire p. 179–80 Parsons C&H p. 24 E 36/201 pp. 18, 20, RWH 295 381 384

  23. Foedera 677–9 RWH 108, 367, Prestwich p. 324–5, Morris p. 209–10, C13 p. 259 Salzman p. 85, Trabut-Cussac p. 87, Clifford p. 94

  24. Foedera 680, 681, Powicke p. 260, Izpegi Le Pays de Soule, Larroque Le Chateau fort de Mauléon

  25. Itineraire p. 181–5 RWH 1639.

  26. Parsons Q&S p. 163, 165, 170, 171, 173, 184, 195, 196. Technically Despenser was pardoned the 1000 marks in June 1287 and Eleanor took over a claim which Edward had against Despenser, but it is hard to see the acquisition as unrelated to the original claim.

  27. Foedera 684 Morris p. 212, Itineraire 161, 164, 187–9, Beresford pp. 593–4, 602 Drouyn Blaye/Bourg-sur-Mer pp9–10, RG vol I supp pp. xxxi, Baker, Man made the Land p. 82, Revue Historique 175–6 p. 581. Bémont’s suggestions of Labastide Chalosse and Labastide-Bordeaux as locations have been rejected. The listings of work for Burgus Reginae are at RWH 2143, 3208, 3211–2, 3214, 3217, 4254, 4318–9. The listing for Bonnegarde is at p. 569 of RWH 1287–9.

  28. Itineraire p. 190–1 E 159/61 m 9d

  29. Itineraire p. 192 Parsons Q&S p. 172 RWH 1731, 2179, 2499, 3223–8 Montan de Aspe is at RWH 2499.

  30. C13 pp. 260, 282–4, Salzman p. 86 Prestwich p. 325, Clifford p. 96

  31. RWH 1719–1722, 1730 2491, Itineraire p. 196 Morris p. 216 Beresford 187, C13 C13 284

  32. RWH 1737, 1755,2665–2669,3230, C13 p. 261, Prestwich p. 325 Parsons Q&S p. 175. The lion and lynx seem to have been counted as a present from Alphonso at a later date: 2894–9. The lynx actually appears in the wardrobe accounts as an ‘uncie’ or ounce; but the beast which appeared at the Tower after the Gascon trip was a lynx. Michael Prestwich has kindly referred me to E 101/4/10–11 which gives Jakemyn’s name and some details of the animals’ life at the Tower.

  33. Prestwich p. 325, C13 p. 261, Roensch Early Thomistic School pp. 31–2.

  34. Foedera 708–9, RWH 4345, Parsons Q&S p. 175 Itineraire RG Vol 2 1064

  35. RWH 2535, 2537, 2539, 3239, 3240, 3241 Parsons Viscountess Jeanne, C&H p. 65, Itineraire p. 202, Salzman p. 87.

  36. Clifford p. 99 Parsons C&H 52 English Administration p. 379, Itineraire, Itinerary

  16 The Last Year, Death and Remembrance

  1. Guisborough 216, Prestwich 262, Morris 222, 224

  2. Itinerary, Parsons Q&S p. 161–2, 166, 191–2, C&H 52

  3. Morris p. 236 Duncan Kingship pp. 165–70, 175–9 Itinerary Parsons Q&S 170–3, 195–6

  4. CChR 1257–1300 411, 357, Parsons C&H p. 12, 24,

  5. Foedera 551, 553, Green vol 2 p. 330–1, 366–370

  6. Foedera 742, Green vol 2 p. 330, Howell 305. The brevity of the Winchester stay militates against it being the occasion of the great ‘Round Table’ celebration.

  7. Annales London p. 98, Chron Bury 94, FW, p. 243, Howell 306, Parsons QS 53 C&H 16, 103

  8. Green vol 2 p. 15, 372 Cotton p. 177, Stacey Expulsion p. 90–1, Morris p. 227, Clifford p. 109, 111–13

  9. Prestwich p. 343, Parsons C&H p. 24

  10. The 15 July 1290 parliament was summoned on 13 June, the 13 October 1275 Parliament on 1 September. There are some suggestions that Clipstone’s famous Parliament oak reflects a meeting at the time of King John. However, if any council did take place at Clipstone under John, it was not a formal parliament.

  11. Parsons C&H p. 25, Itinerary

  12. Itinerary, Morris p. 237 Green vol 2 p. 373

  13. Green vol 2p 336, Johnstone p. 24

  14. Parsons C&H p. 25–6 Q&S 89, Powrie p. 21–2

  15. Flores iii, 71, CPR 1281–92 405, Howell p. 303, Parsons Q&S p. 58, C&H p. 23, Powrie p. 22–3 Linehan p. 173

  16. Powrie p. 32–34, 62 Parsons Q&Q 324 Q&S 206, Woodward pp. 65–6 Giesey The Royal Funeral Ceremony p. 22–3 Hallam, in D Parsons ed. Eleanor of Castile p. 17–18

  17. The course of the procession has been reconstructed by Powrie and is summarised at p. 192. Powrie suggests (p 142) the reason for the resumption of the Ermine Street route was to take in Waltham Abbey and Abbot Reginald.

  18. AM iii p. 362, Opus Chronicorum 50, Powrie p. 98, 142, Galloway 12–13 Parsons Q&S 60

  19. Foedera 743 Barnwell p. 226 Flores iii 171–2, Hallam p. 18 in D Parsons, Giesey p. 32, Galloway 131–2, Parsons 60 Parsons C&H 133 Huscroft Thesis p. 108 Parsons Q&S 50

  20. Cambridge University Library MS Ee.3.59, fo. 9 Parsons Q&S 207 Coldstream p. 57, Lindley Romanticising Reality p. 72 in D Parsons Gee p. 112 Leonor of England and Eleanor of Castile pp. 77–83

  21. Powrie records the payments made at p. 63, 163, Hinnebusch p. 45, HKW I p. 482, Botfield and Turner pp. lxxvi-vii, 98, 100, 1–2–3, 108–9, 111, 113

  22. Parsons Q&S p. 209, Perkinson, p. 97–98, 107, Binski, Medieval Death 110. Perkinson p. 107 has a good picture of a montjoie.

  23. Coldstream Commissioning and Design p. 57 in D Parsons, Parsons Q&S p. 209, 212, Steane Archaeology p. 169

  24. Lindley Romanticising Reality p. 76–78 Powrie p. 124 Coldstream Commissioning and Design p. 57

  25. Rimmer’s Ancient Stone Crosses of England 1875 Powrie p. 148–9 Coldstream p. 57 Lindley p. 75, 77

  26. Powrie p. 65–8, 80–3, 136, Vallance, Old Crosses and Lychgates p. 96

  27. Powrie p. 148, 165, Vallance p. 102, 107 Coldstream p. 57

  28. Powrie p. 125, 129, 148, Lindley pp. 80–1Coldstream p. 59

  29. Guisborough 227–8, AnnPaulini 225, AM iii 366, Worcester 506, Parsons Q&S p. 213–5, 324, Manners 137 Lathbur
y Denham 79–83

  30. SC 8/280/13964, Parsons Q&S p. 132, 215, 218, 324, C&H pp. 65–6, 134, Johnstone Letters 115–6, Powrie p. 23, Manners 108, 135

  17 Afterlives

  1. Prestwich 125, 355, Morris 269, Vale Edward I and the French Rivalry and Chivalry TCE ii p. 166–8

  2. Prestwich 128–9 Morris 375

  3. Clifford pp

  4. Martinez p. 181–3

  5. Parsons Q&S p. 207 216–8, Opus Chronicorum 26, 49–50

  6. Rishanger 120–121, Gesta Abbatum sancti Albani 411–12, Walsingham Historia Anglicana I 32, Parsons Q&S pp. 219–20

  7. Parsons p. 177, 218–219, 221, 320

  8. Parsons p. 221, 223 citing Holinshead Chronicles of England ii 431, 435, 439, Camden Britannia I 390–1 trans Gibson 1695 col 320–1, Camden ‘Remains of a Larger Work …’ p. 236–7

  9. Parsons p. 224–6, 232 The play is available at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/kingedwardfirst00peeluoft#page/n11/mode/2up

  10. Powrie 66–7, 80–1, 82–4, 130 135–6, 141, Vallance p. 101, Celia Fiennes Journey 1697 London to Coventry: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/Fiennes

  11. Stow 1 215, 266, Keen English Society p. 115, Powrie 165–167179 Vallance 106 108.

  12. Parsons p. 237 Ed Salzman, A History of the County of Northampton Vol 4 pp. 252–259, Vallance pp. 98–100

  13. Parsons pp. 237–40, Sova Banned Plays pp. 87–89. The play can be found at: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/text/3539.html

  14. Parsons Q&S p. 240, 245–6, L&R p. 24, Pope-Hennessy Agnes Strickland 303–4

  Appendix 1 The Robert Burnell Letter

  1. Parsons L&R p. 51

  2. CPR 1272–81 pp. 58, 63–4 November 1274. Her grandmother was Garsende of Provence, Eleanor of Provence’s paternal aunt. However, Constance was betrothed at one point to one of Eleanor’s brothers, and previously married to one of her Aragonese cousins (the son of Alfonso VIII’s daughter Eleanor)

  3. Crawford p. 73 SC 1/10/50 SC 1/30/50 SC 1/7/98

  4. Huscroft Thesis p. 137. 40 of the total of 160 surviving letters are from her. Parsons QI p. 151

  5. SC 1/7/98 SC1/23/27 The mother of the King formulation is found in numerous letters in the chancery SC 1/23 series eg. 8–12, 17 as well as in the 1/10 series: 40–2, 46–7

  6. Royal letter No 1454 in Wood p. 47–8

  7. CPR p. 226, CPR Henry III vol 6 p. 662

  8. Crawford p. 73, SC 1/10/50, RG, Crawford p. 75 SC 1/30/50

  9. Royal letter No 1454 in Wood p. 47–8 Foedera 569 (date April May 1279), 576 dated November

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