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by Ian Mortimer


  – visits Pope at Avignon: 225

  – plots restoration of Edward II: 225, 252

  – returns to England: 229

  – at coronation of Queen Philippa: 229

  – seizure of at Winchester: 229

  – trial, judgement and confession: 229–231, 240

  – execution: 231–234, 247, 263

  – forfeited estates: 234

  – said to be innocent by Roger at his execution: 241, 268

  – wife: see Wake, Margaret de

  Edward I (1239–1307), King of England (1272): 7–8, 10–12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23–33, 54, 78, 135, 245

  Edward II, ‘Edward of Carnarvon’ (b. 1284), Prince of Wales (to 1307), King of England (1307–1327): 1–5, 48

  – as Prince of Wales: 14–16, 18–19, 22–26, 28–31

  – accession: 32

  – favouritism of Gaveston: 19, 33–39

  – marriage to Isabella: 36–37

  – coronation: 37–38

  – in crisis of 1308: 38–40

  – engineers Gaveston’s return from Ireland: 42–43

  – reaction to Gaveston’s murder: 51–53, 55–56

  – campaign in Scotland, 1313–14: 55–64

  – involvement in Irish affairs, 1315–17: 69, 72

  – reaction to grievances of Llywelyn Bren and subsequent revolt: 74–76

  – reaction to Bristol insurrection: 77, 79–80

  – appointment of Roger as King’s Lieutenant in Ireland: 81–83

  – interference in Roger’s government of Ireland: 84–85, 87

  – relations with Lancaster 1318: 90–92

  – support of Hugh Despenser and civil war of 1321: 99–110

  – attack on Badlesmere: 111–113

  – moves against Mortimers: 113–116

  – confiscation of Roger’s possessions: 116–121

  – imprisonment of members of Mortimer family: 121

  – defeat of Lancaster: 123–125

  – government with Despenser: 126–128

  – reaction to Roger’s escape from Tower: 132–134

  – management of Gascon politics: 136–138

  – ratification of treaty with France: 141–142

  – attempts to persuade Isabella to return to England: 142–144, 147, 284 (n. 23)

  – reaction to Isabella’s desertion: 144–147

  – reaction to Roger and Isabella’s invasion: 150–153

  – flees from invaders: 153–157, 251

  – abandoned by his household servants: 157

  – surrender and imprisonment at Kenilworth: 159–160, 251

  – deposition and abdication: 165–170, 196, 251

  – removal from Kenilworth to Berkeley: 173–174, 187, 239, 251, 254

  – rescue from Berkeley and recapture 1327: 176–177, 184

  – conditions of imprisonment at Berkeley: 185, 188, 190

  – supposed death in 1327: 185–195, 197–199, 212, 239, 242–264

  – removal from Berkeley Castle in secret: 252, 256

  – supposed burial in 1327: 186, 188, 197–199, 244–247, 250, 255, 263–264

  – secretly in custody 1327–1330: 217, 219–220, 244–252, 254, 256, 258, 262–263

  – custody made known to the Pope: 225

  – possible attempt to free him 1329: 227

  – Kent’s attempt to free him 1330: 229, 252

  – travels on the continent 1330–38: 252–254, 256, 258–263

  – appearance in Cologne as William le Galeys/William the Welshman: 260–263, 302 (n. 47), 303 (n. 51)

  Edward III (1312–1377), Duke of Aquitaine (1325), King of England (1327): 3–4, 255

  – birth, 1312: 53

  – betrothal: 136, 141

  – journey to France 1325: 138–139

  – performs homage for Gascony: 141–143

  – as custodian of realm: 157–158, 165–166

  – proclamation as king: 168, 170

  – knighted: 170

  – crowned: 170–171

  – role in Weardale campain: 177–184

  – heard news of his father’s supposed death: 185, 197

  – told of his father’s survival: 198, 292 (n. 11)

  – dependence on Roger: 198–199

  – claims the French throne: 204–205, 221

  – visits Ludlow 1328: 207

  – anger at being forced to cede Scotland: 209

  – refuses to attend his sister’s wedding: 209

  – distrustful of Henry of Lancaster: 209–212

  – escapes Lancaster’s attempt to capture him: 213

  – included in Leintwardine chantry beneficiaries: 216, 222

  – accused of breaking coronation oath: 217

  – threatened with excommunication: 217

  – performs homage for Gascony: 221

  – relationship with Roger in decline: 224, 226–227

  – warns Kent not to travel in Spain: 225

  – upholds death sentence on his uncle: 232

  – grudges against Roger: 235

  – plots with Montagu how to resume control of the realm: 227, 235–239

  – turns around Berkeley Castle plot in his favour: 244, 250–251

  – goes on ‘pilgrimage’ to France 1331: 263

  – makes pilgrimage to Gloucester 1343: 253

  – possibly in receipt of the Fieschi letter: 259–260

  – crowned Vicar of the Holy Roman Empire 1338: 260

  Edward (b. 1320?), heir to the earldom of Norfolk: 225, 294 (n. 22), 322–323

  Eland, William, speculator of Nottingham Castle: 237–238

  Eldecote, John de: 121

  Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290), Queen of England (1272): 10–11

  Eltham, Kent: 228, 315–316

  Eltham, John of: see John of Eltham

  Ely, Bishop of: see Hothum, John de

  Enfield, John de: 186

  Ernwood, Shropshire: 78–79, 306, 319

  Erskine, William: 181

  Essex: 150

  Evesham, Worcestershire: 201

  Evesham, Battle of (1265): 7–8, 65

  Evesham, Walter de: 121, 164

  Evreux, Louis d’: see Louis d’Evreux

  Ewer, Robert le: 128

  Ewyas, lordship of: 44

  Exeter, Devon: 188, 261

  Falkirk, Scotland: 58

  famine: 67, 72–73, 76, 80, 96

  Faughart, Ireland: 93, 95–96

  Feast of the Swans: 24–25

  Ferns, Bishop of: see Adam of Northampton

  Ferrard, Ireland: 49

  Ferre, Guy de: 17

  Ferrers, John de (1271–1312), Lord Ferrers (1293): 53

  Fiennes, de, family: 14, 121, 134, 271 (n. 4), 320–321

  Fiennes, Joan de: see Wake, Joan de

  Fiennes, John de: 133, 202

  Fiennes, Margaret de, daughter of William: see Mortimer, Margaret

  Fiennes, Robert de: 82, 133

  Fiennes, William de (d. 1302): 11

  Fiennes, William (fl. 1316): 82

  Fieschi, de, family of Genoa: 255

  Fieschi, Manuele de (d. 1348), papal notary; Bishop of Vercelli (1343): 251–263

  Fieschi, Nicholinus de, Genoese envoy to England: 260, 263, 303 (n. 51)

  FitzAlan, Edmund (1285–1326), Earl of Arundel (1302), Justiciar of Wales (1322–26): 34, 38–39, 44, 49–50, 56, 102, 104, 107, 115, 132, 160, 163, 173, 234, 251, 270 (n. 1)

  FitzAlan, Richard (1313?–1376), heir to earldom of Arundel; restored Earl (1331): 235, 249

  FitElys, Robert: 66

  FitzJohn, Thomas (d. 1328), Earl of Kildare (1316), Justiciar of Ireland (1327–28): 96, 98, 175

  FitzJohn, William (d. 1326), Archbishop of Cashel (1317): 89

  FitzReginald, John (d. 1310), Lord FitzReginald: 34

  FitzThomas, John (d.1316), Earl of Kildare (1316): 81

  FitzThomas, John (the above?): 45, 274 (n. 34)

  FitzThomas, Richard (1319–1331), heir to
the earldom of Kildare: 228

  FitzWarin, Fulk (d. 1336), Lord FitzWarin (1315): 231

  Flanders/Flemish, Belgium: 128, 248, 260

  Foix, Count of: 53

  ‘Folebrook’: 234

  Forcet, Francisco: 260–261, 302 (n. 49)

  Forfar Castle, Scotland: 54

  Forteviot, Scotland: 26

  Forth, River, Scotland: 59, 63

  France: 2, 57, 121, 133–149, 158, 161, 196, 200, 204, 208–209, 220–224, 226, 263, 267, 283 (n. 10), 310

  France, King of: see Philip IV, Charles IV, Philip VI, Louis IX

  France, Queen of: 140, 148

  Francis, William: 57

  Franciscans (Greyfriars, Minoresses): 24, 242, 323

  Frankton, Stephen de (fl 1282): 11

  Fraser, Simon (d. 1306): 27–28

  French Chronicle of London: 189, 235

  Friars: see Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites

  Friskeney, John de: 126

  Froissart, Jean (c. 1333–c.1404), chronicler: 5, 222

  Fryde, Natalie, historian: 253–254

  furnishings, soft (curtains, bed–hangings, sheets etc): 117–120, 207–208

  Galeys, John: 233, 298 (n.40)

  Galeys, Philip de, Abbot of Wigmore (1302–1318): 93, 277 (n. 26)

  Galeys, William le: see Edward II

  Galtres Forest, Yorkshire: 201

  Garton, Thomas de, Controller of the Kings Wardrobe: 211

  Gascony, France (see also Aquitaine, Duchy of): 11, 21, 34, 43, 47, 53, 57, 105, 133–134, 136–143, 161, 169, 221, 227–228, 233, 240, 305

  Gaveston, Arnaud de (d. 1302): 18

  Gaveston, Joan (1312–1325), daughter of Piers Gaveston: 51

  Gaveston, Margaret (d. 1342), Countess of Cornwall (1309): 32, 40, 51

  Gaveston, Piers (d. 1312), Earl of Cornwall (1307): 3–5, 54, 65, 82, 95, 99, 101–102, 109, 135, 172, 273 (n. 23–26)

  – as a companion to Edward before 1307: 15, 17–20, 23–24, 28–31

  – created Earl of Cornwall: 32

  – antagonism of the earls: 33–40, 43–44, 160

  – as Regent of England: 34–35, 273 (n. 8, 9)

  – at coronation of Edward II: 37–38

  – cause of crisis in 1308: 38–39

  – as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: 40–42, 274 (n. 28)

  – returns to England: 43

  – is exiled again, 1309: 44

  – in Scotland with Edward: 46

  – impeachment, 1311: 46–47

  – capture and death, 1312: 50–53, 137

  – burial, 1314: 65

  Gayte, Richard le: 201

  Geneville, de, family: 121, 206, 324

  Geneville, Beatrice de (b. 1287), sister of Joan: 13, 172, 270 (n. 7)

  Geneville, Geoffrey de (c. 1226–1314), Lord Geneville (1254), grandfather of Joan: 13–14, 16, 19, 34, 40–42, 271 (n. 12)

  Geneville, Jean de, elder brother of Geoffrey: see Joinville, Jean de

  Geneville, Joan de (d. 1323), wife of Peter (mother of Joan): 13, 19, 133, 206

  Geneville, Joan de: see Mortimer, Joan

  Geneville, Maud de (d. 1304) Lady Geneville (grandmother of Joan): 13, 46, 270 (n. 7)

  Geneville, Maud de (b. 1291), sister of Joan: 13, 172

  Geneville, Peter de (d. 1292), son of Lord Geneville (father of Joan): 13, 206

  Genoa, Italy: 134, 255–256, 259–260, 302 (n. 43), 303 (n. 51)

  Genté, France: 320

  Geoffrey of Paris, chronicler: 36

  Germain, Alexandre, archivist: 251–252

  Germany: 57, 134, 169, 252, 260

  Giffard, John (c. 1232–1299), Lord Giffard of Brimpsfield (1248): 10

  Giffard, John (1287–1322), Lord Giffard of Brimpsfield (1299): 75–76, 99–100, 104–105, 126

  Giffard, Walter (d. 1279), Archbishop of York (1266): 10

  gift-giving (excluding severed heads, for which see heads, presentation of): 10, 15, 30, 38, 42, 155, 207, 209, 221, 224–226

  Gisors, John de, alderman and Mayor of London: 130, 134, 282 (n. 16)

  Glamorgan, Wales: 73–76, 87–88, 99, 105–106, 157, 176, 251, 258

  Glamorgan, Sheriff of: 74

  Glanville, Hugh de: 186, 198

  Glasbury, Wales: 234

  Glasgow, Bishop of: see Wishard, Robert

  Glendalough, Ireland: 42

  Gloucester: 77, 104–105, 110, 114, 126, 154, 156, 185–186, 188, 198, 213, 216, 227, 235–236, 245–247, 250, 252–253, 263, 311, 314–315, 317, 323

  Gloucester, Abbot of St Peters: see Thoky,: 185, 245

  Gloucester, Earls of: see Clare, Gilbert de (1243–1295); Clare, Gilbert de (1291–1314); Monthermer, Ralph de

  Gloucester, Earldom of: 73, 90, 95, 97, 99, 101–102

  Gloucestershire: 21, 107, 234

  Glover, Arnold le: 281 (n. 6)

  ‘Glynsely’, Ireland: 279 (n. 32), 307

  Gorges, Matthew de: 106

  Gorges, Ralph de (d. 1323), Lord Gorges (appointed Justiciar of Ireland but never arrived): 106–107, 113, 281 (n. 11)

  Gormanstown, Ireland: 234

  Gower, Wales: 100–101, 127, 157

  Granard, Ireland: 80

  Grandison, Blanche de (d. 1347), Lady Grandison: 322–324

  Grandison, Piers de (d. 1358), Lord Grandison: 324

  Grantham, John de, alderman and Mayor of London: 215, 220

  Gravesend, Stephen (d. 1338), Bishop of London ((1318): 112, 170, 213, 217, 228, 231

  Greencastle, Ireland: 68

  Greenwich, Kent: 2, 130

  Grey, John de (1268–1323), Lord Grey of Wilton and Ruthin: 104

  Grey, Richard de (1282?–1335), Lord Grey of Codnor: 110

  Greyfriars: see Franciscans

  Guienne, France: 57

  Guildhall: see London, Guildhall

  Gurney, Thomas: 95, 185, 188–191, 194, 197, 201, 245, 247–249, 251, 257, 260, 263, 292 (n. 2)

  Gwennllwg, Wales: 99–100

  Hainault, Belgium (see also Holland): 134–135, 140–141, 148–150–151, 164, 176, 183, 200, 310

  Hainault, Count William of: see William of Hainault

  Hainault, John of: see John of Hainault

  Hainault, Philippa of: see Philippa of Hainault

  Haines, Roy Martin, historian: 254, 258, 260

  Hakelut, Edmund: 79, 81, 99

  Hakelut, John: 323

  Hakelut, Walter (d. 1315): 94

  Haltwhistle, Northumberland: 180, 312

  Hammond, Robert: see Howel, Robert:

  Hampshire: 21, 107, 120–121, 135, 177

  Hampshire, Sheriffs of: 129, 215

  Hanley Castle, Worcestershire: 207

  Harclay, Andrew de (d. 1323), Earl of Carlisle (1322): 123–124, 161, 286 (n. 18)

  Harley, Robert de: 66, 79, 82

  Harley, William de: 126

  Hastings, Battle of (1066): 3

  Hastings, Agnes, de (d. 1368), Countess of Pembroke (1339): 225, 294 (n. 22), 323

  Hastings, John de (d. 1325), Lord Hastings (1313): 75, 103–105, 114

  Hastings, Laurence de (1320–1348), heir to the earldom of Pembroke (Earl of Pembroke, 1339): 171; 201, 225, 234, 294 (n. 22), 322–323

  Hastings, Robert de: 186

  Haverford, Wales: 83, 157

  Hawkslowe, Richard de: 201

  Haydon, Northumberland: 179–180, 311

  heads, presentation of: 8, 11, 13, 86, 93, 156 162

  Hebrides, King of: 93

  Henry II (1133–1189), King of England (1153): 12

  Henry (1155–1183), son of Henry II: 12

  Henry III (1207–1272), King of England (1216): 7, 10

  Henry of Lancaster (c. 1281–1345), Earl of Leicester (1324), Earl of Lancaster (1326): 38, 75, 104, 135, 137, 142, 169, 189, 196, 227, 266, 284 (n. 22)

  – role in 1326 invasion: 151–152, 154, 158–159

  – as custodian of Edward II: 159–160, 251

  – opposition to Roger and Isabella: 164, 172–175

 
– role in Weardale campaign: 177, 181, 183–184

  – role on regency council: 172, 203, 288 (n. 21)

  – determination to protect English interests in Scotland: 175, 199–200, 205

  – claims that Roger removed Edward II by force: 174, 187, 288 (n. 26)

  – origins of conflict with Roger 1328–29: 194, 199, 204–205

  – accuses Roger of appropriating power: 209

  – distrustful of Edward III: 209–210

  – declares his enmity towards Roger and Isabella: 210–211

  – threatens the king: 211–212

  – petition of grievances against the government 1328: 212–213

  – attempts to capture Edward III: 213

  – protection of Thomas Wyther after murder of Holand: 213

  – refuses to attend Parliament: 213–214

  – reaction to Roger’s earldom: 215

  – hears Edward II still alive: 216–217

  – accuses Edward III of breaking coronation oath: 217

 

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