30
CPR, 1258–66, pp. 24–5. Henry also undertook to protect the interests of the king of France against Eleanor: ibid., pp. 26–7. Significantly, the English king arranged for the drafting of two texts of the Treaty of Paris, both dated 20 May: one included the renunciation of Eleanor’s and Richard of Cornwall’s claims, while the other omitted these clauses, in recognition of Eleanor’s intransigence: Treaty Rolls, i, pp. 37–40 no. 103; Sanders, ‘The Texts of the Peace of Paris’, 84–5, 89–90, 94; Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 244–5.
31
CPR, 1258–66, p. 25; Sanders, ‘The Texts of the Peace of Paris’, 89.
32
CPR, 1258–66, pp. 25–6.
33
See p. 79.
34
CPR, 1258–66, p. 26.
35
BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 10v–11v.
36
Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 245.
37
Treaty Rolls, i, p. 48 no. 120; BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 11v; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 182–3. See also Treaty Rolls, i, pp. 43–8 nos 113–19, pp. 48–9 no. 121, pp. 51–2 no. 128; BnFr Clairambault MS 1188, ff. 11v–12, 12–13v, 15–15v.
38
Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 246–7; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 185.
39
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 185–6.
40
Diplomatic Documents, i, p. 215 no. 306; Bémont, Simon de Montfort, pp. 330–1 no. xxxii; CPR, 1258–66, pp. 106–7; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 187; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, pp. 189–90.
41
Earl Simon followed suit by resigning his claims to the territories conquered by his father during the Albigensian crusade, and those of his brother in Evreux and Normandy: Foedera, i, pt i, p. 392; Layettes du trésor des chartres. Tome troisième, ed. J. de Laborde (1875). Paris: E. Plon, part ii, pp. 497–8 nos 4565–6; Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 247; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 160; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 188.
42
CPR, 1258–66, p. 135.
43
Once more, if Louis proved reluctant to perform this role, Henry hoped that Queen Margaret or Peter the Chamberlain might fill the French king’s shoes: CPR, 1258–66, pp. 145–6; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, pp. 190–1. Documents relating to the case presented to the French by the Earl and Countess of Leicester in 1261 are printed in Bémont, Simon de Montfort, pp. 332–53 nos xxxiv–xxxvii.
44
CPR, 1258–66, p. 162.
45
Ibid., p. 169.
46
Ibid., p. 241. For letters sent by Henry III to Queen Margaret in April 1262, see CR, 1261–4, pp. 120–1.
47
‘Visitationibus Odonis Rigaudi, archiepiscopi Rothomagensis’, in Dom. M. Bouquet and L. Delisle (eds, 1840–1904), Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Tome 21. Paris: V. Palmé, p. 581.
48
CR, 1256–9, p. 415.
49
DBM, pp. 149–64 no. 12.
50
CPR 1258-66, p. 45.
51
BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 13v; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 186; D. A. Carpenter (1996), ‘The Lord Edward’s Oath to Aid and Counsel Simon de Montfort, 15 October 1259’, in idem, The Reign of Henry III, pp. 241–52, esp. p. 251.
52
CR, 1259–61, p. 12.
53
For detailed analysis of these events, see Labarge, Simon de Montfort, pp. 180–205; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 192–224.
54
See Labarge, Simon de Montfort, pp. 206–36; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 225–78.
55
Lettres des rois, reines, et autres personages des cours de France et d’Angleterre. Tome I, ed. M. Champollion-Figeac (1839). Paris: Imprimerie Royale, pp. 62–4 no. li; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 191.
56
BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 16v; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 192.
57
Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 192.
58
BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 18–18v, 18v–19, 21–21v, 23, 31; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 193.
59
BnFr MS Clairambault MS 1188, f. 29; Labarge, Simon de Montfort, pp. 192–3, 264. See also p. 132.
60
Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 201.
61
CPR, 1258–66, p. 266.
62
Ibid., pp. 263–5; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 227–8.
63
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 227–8. The scale of the escalating crisis was reflected by the fact that just three days after the Montforts’ safe conduct was issued, Henry withdrew to the comparative safety of the Tower of London: ibid., p. 228.
64
For Eleanor of Provence’s activities at this time, see Howell, Eleanor of Provence, ch. 9. For Eleanor of Castile, see J. C. Parsons (1995), Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England. New York: St Martin’s Press, p. 24.
65
‘Annales Londonienses’, p. 64. See also Battle abbey chronicle, an excerpt from which is printed in Bémont, Simon de Montfort, p. 377.
66
See ‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, pp. 232–3, which records the transfer of Edward, Henry and later Richard to Wallingford, but without specific reference to Eleanor, and De antiquis legibus liber. Cronica maiorum et vicecomitum Londoniarum, ed. T. Stapleton (1846). London: Camden Society, pp. 63, 65, which notes the imprisonment of royal captives at Dover and the Tower, and the later transfer of ‘the king of Almain’ to Berkhamsted Castle. See also Flores historiarum, ii, p. 498.
67
‘Chronicon vulgo dictum chronicon Thomae Wykes’, in Ann. mon., iv, p. 153.
68
M. Prestwich (1988), Edward I. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 47.
69
For the activities of the queen, see ‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 233; Cronica maiorum … Londoniarum, p. 67; ‘Chronicon Thomae Wykes’, p. 154; Flores historiarum, ii, pp. 499–500.
70
‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 233. See also Flores historiarum, ii, p. 499.
71
Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, p. 486.
72
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 307.
73
No reference was made to Richard of Cornwall: CR, 1261–4, p. 396; Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, p. 477 and n. 1.
74
Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, pp. 480–1; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 292, 296.
75
The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, ed. W. A. Wright (1887). London: Rolls Series, ii, pp. 751–2; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 307; Prestwich, Edward I, p. 47; Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, p. 486. See also Flores historiarum, ii, p. 503.
76
CPR, 1258–66, pp. 388–9. The king appears to have authorized payments for Eleanor’s Irish dower up until the end of 1263, according to the liberate rolls. See, for example, CLR, 1260–7, pp. 77 (February 1262, £200 for Michaelmas term 1261), 89 (May 1262, £200 for Easter term 1262), 111 (October 1262, £200 for Michaelmas term 1262), 125 (November 1263, £200 for Michaelmas 1263). There is, however, no reference to a payment for Easter term 1263 in the liberate roll, probably due to its poor condition.
77
CPR, 1258–66, p. 392. For Richard of Havering and his son, see Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 67–8. See also p. 53.
78
CPR, 1258–66, p. 431.
79
Their middle son, Guy, for example, was awarded the keeping of Richard of Cornwall’s lands in the far south west of England: ibid., p. 394; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 309–10. See also p. 111.
80
&nbs
p; Simon junior had been captured by the royalists at the battle of Northampton in 1264, but was released after Lewes: CPR, 1258–66, p. 318.
81
Bémont, Simon de Montfort, pp. 353–5 no. xxxviii; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 325–6.
82
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 325–6; Manners, pp. 9, 10, 57, 65, 66, 74.
83
See, for example, Manners, pp. 15–16, 31, 32, 33, 35. It was also during this month that orders were issued that Isabella’s estates should be taken into the hands of the crown because she had not paid her relief. The order was subsequently cancelled: Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, pp. 707–8, esp. p. 708 n. 2.
84
Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, pp. 708 and n. 2.
Notes on Chapter 8
1
CR, 1264–8, p. 306.
2
Ibid.
3
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 334–40.
4
Ibid. pp. 340–2.
5
For Christmas 1264, see Flores historiarum, ii, p. 504.
6
An edition of this document was published in Manners, pp. 1–85. I am preparing a new edition of this roll for publication by the Pipe Roll Society. For modern commentaries on various aspects of the roll, see Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men; Asaji, ‘Household Accounts of the Countess of Leicester, 1265’, pp. 162–88; Kjær, ‘Food, Drink and Ritualised Communication’, 75–89.
7
Manners, pp. 14-15.
8
K. Mertes (1988), The English Noble Household, 1250–1600. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 11–12; Woolgar, The Great Household, pp. 46–7. The average number of people present was calculated by Woolgar: ibid., p. 12 table 1.
9
Manners, pp. 1–4; Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men, p. 156.
10
Manners, pp. 42, 47–9.
11
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 309, 316–30.
12
See pp. 107–8.
13
CPR, 1258–66, p. 319. Henry was also given Corfe Castle (Dorset): Labarge, Simon de Montfort, p. 237.
14
BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 24v–25; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 335–6.
15
CR, 1264–68, p. 80. He was also the holder of all John Mansel the elder’s lands: ibid. p. 238.
16
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 43, 309–10, 324. See also p. 107.
17
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 324.
18
Manners, p. 8.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid., p. 14.
21
Ibid., p. 13.
22
Ibid., p. 12.
23
Ibid., pp. 13–14.
24
Ibid., p. 13; MacGregor, Odiham Castle, pp. 58, 59.
25
Manners, pp. 17–18. For Pevensey, see, for example, ‘Annales Londonienses’, p. 64.
26
Manners, p. 24.
27
Ibid., pp. 41, 42; Royal Letters, ii, p. 288 no. DCXXXVII (a letter of mid June, anticipating Simon junior’s relief of Gloucester).
28
This figure excludes the visitors’ retinues: Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men, p. 48.
29
Manners, pp. 8, 24.
30
Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, pp. 52 (figure 3), 56.
31
Ibid., pp. 18, 24.
32
Ibid., pp. 12–13; Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men, pp. 49–50. Margery de Crek had secured a licence to found a nunnery at Flixton in Suffolk in or around 1258: S. Thompson (1991), Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries after the Norman Conquest. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 174.
33
Manners, p. 37.
34
Ibid., p. 37 n. 2.
35
Ibid., p. 30. For Catherine’s gifts to Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire and a charter of Philip Basset where she is described as his sister, see: Lacock Abbey Charters, pp. 79–80 nos 308–15, 317. Philip Basset, a former royal justiciar, was among the king’s supporters captured at Lewes: R. M. Hogg (2004), ‘Basset, Philip (d. 1271)’, ODNB, available online at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1643, accessed on 22 July 2011.
36
Manners, p. 34 and n. 8; H. W. Blaauw (1844), The Barons’ War including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham, London: Nichols and Son, p. 283 n. 1.
37
The wife of Hugh Despenser was also the daughter of Philip Basset: Manners, p. 65 and n. 9.
38
Ibid., p. 24.
39
Ibid., pp. 19, 24 (messenger from prioress), 31 (messenger for carrying letters of countess and the king to the prioress), 34 (messenger from prioress). For Amesbury’s royal connections, see Thompson, Women Religious, pp. 121–3, 218.
40
Manners, p. 24.
41
Ibid., p. 18. A Walter de Fauconberg married Agnes, a sister and co-heiress of Peter de Brus, eighth lord of Skelton. For Walter and the Fauconberg family, see G. Poulson (1840) The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, Volume I. Hull: Robert Brown, p. 403; J. W. Ord (1846), The History and Antiquities of Cleveland. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., p. 250. See also pp. 90–1.
42
Manners, pp. 6, 11 (wine), 16 (wine), 18 (cope), 19 (wine), 29 (wine).
43
Ibid., p. 33.
44
Ibid., p. 10; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 81–2.
45
Manners, p. 5; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 42, 44. See also p. 85.
46
Manners, p. 6 and n. 3.
47
Ibid., p. 75.
48
The Letters of Adam Marsh, i, pp. 170–5 nos 71–2, 175–7 no. 74.
49
Manners, pp. 6, 21; Kjær, ‘Food, Drink and Ritualised Communication’, 79.
50
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 142.
51
Ibid., pp. 68–9.
52
Manners, p. 11; MacGregor, Odiham Castle, p. 57.
53
Manners, pp. 9, 31. For the settlement, see CPR, 1258–66, p. 414.
54
Manners, p. 14.
55
Ibid.
56
Ibid., pp. 23, 71.
57
Ibid., p. 25. Edmund also received gifts of miniver: ibid., p. 26.
58
Ibid.
59
See pp. 44, 56–7, 69, 77.
60
On the importance of dress to personal honour and rank, see ‘The Rules of Robert Grosseteste’, pp. 402–3 no. xxi.
61
Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, pp. 505–6.
62
Manners, p. 67.
63
Ibid., p. 18. For the younger Eleanor, see pp. 13–14, 88.
64
Powicke, King Henry III and the Lord Edward, ii, p. 518.
65
Those with Eleanor at the end included: J. of Snave, Thomas of Sandwich, Richard, rector of Kemsing, William the clerk of Leicester, Ralph d’Arcy, Michael of Kemsing, William de Lacu, Walter Penchecouste, John Spinard, Damsel Hawise de Wortham, Geoffrey Norfolk, Geoffrey the Cook, John de la Haye, Robert Corbet, B. de Otringbere, John of Betteshanger, Roger de Tilemanson, Thomas de Crevequer, Simon of Bodiham, John de Ostregate, Robert of Chilham, Nicholas Karrok, Stephen de Pirie, Sampson de Soles, Damsel Christiana de Craiwell, William de St Philibert and Simon de Fernham: TNA: PRO, SC 1/8/23; Royal Letters, ii, pp. 294–6 no. DCXLIV; Powicke, Henry III, ii, p. 518 n. 2.
66
CR, 1264–8, pp. 217–18.
67
For the Lord E
dward’s escape, see CR, 1264-8, pp. 124–5.
68
Manners, p. 42.
69
Ibid., pp. 42–7.
70
Ibid., p. 41 (just before she left Odiham and just before Simon junior’s arrival on 31 May).
71
Ibid., p. 47 (at Bramber Castle in Sussex).
72
Ibid., pp. 46–8; Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, pp. 335–6.
73
Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men, p. 156.
74
Manners, pp. 49–50.
75
Ibid., p. 50.
76
Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, p. 66.
77
Manners, pp. 76–7. See also ibid., pp. 55, 57, 67.
78
On the importance of dining in the hall, see ‘The Rules of Robert Grosseteste’, pp. 402–3 no. xxii.
79
See, for example, Manners, pp. 49, 58–9.
80
See, for example, ibid., pp. 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63.
81
Ibid., p. 60.
82
Ibid., pp. 59, 63. Some items, including additional ale, wine, fish and meat, were purchased in Dover itself: ibid., pp. 49, 58, 60, 61–2.
83
Ibid., p. 24.
84
See, for example, ibid., pp. 8, 9–10, 14–15, 32, 56; Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men, p. 63.
85
CPR, 1247–58, p. 61; Labarge, Mistress, Maids and Men, p. 63. Wortham fought with Earl Simon and died with him at Evesham: W. H. Blaauw and C. H. Pearson (1871), The Barons’ War including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham (2nd edn). London: Bell and Daldy, p. 318 n. 5. At the time of Evesham, he also held the wardship of Richard le Bretun’s heir in Stondon, Beds: CIM, p. 187 no. 611.
86
Manners, pp. 18, 18 n. 10, 55.
87
Ibid., p. 17 and n. 3; CIM, pp. 286–7 no. 939, esp. p. 287 (lands in Dikering wapentake, Yorks). For William the clerk, see also Royal Letters, ii, pp. 294–6 no. DCXLIV, esp. p. 295.
88
Manners, p. 32. Fulk was later among those dispatched from Dover to London in July: ibid., p. 57.
89
Ibid., pp. 10, 26, 33, 55, 64.
90
Ibid., pp. 8, 11, 31, 40, 57, 63.
91
Ibid. p. 31.
92
Ibid., pp. 21, 24, 32, 33, 34, 56.
93
Ibid., pp. 24, 31, 65, 66.
94
Ibid., p. 24.
95
Ibid., p. 56.
96
Ibid., p. 66.
97
Ibid., p. 67.
98
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