The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty

by J. S. Hamilton

  4 D. A. Carpenter, The Minority of Henry III (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990), p. 390.

  5 Calendar of the Close Rolls 1254–1256, p. 326.

  6 D.A. Carpenter, ‘King Henry III and the Tower of London’, London Journal, 19, (1995), 95–107, reprinted in D. A. Carpenter, The Reign of Henry III (1996), pp. 199–218.

  7 ‘Largesce’ was the open- handed generosity expected of kings and so necessarily opposed to ‘covetousness’. ‘ Debonereté’ is less easily translated, but might be rendered as ‘nobility of spirit’, or more simply as goodness, kindness or meekness; it is therefore opposed to ire.

  8 P. Binski, Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power, 1200–1400 (London and New Haven, 1995), p. 7.

  9 Calendar of the Close Rolls 1237–1242, p. 258.

  10 Quoted in M. Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth- Century England(Oxford, 1998), p. 23.

  11 Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1247–1258, p. 217.

  12 Presumably, like the money of Bordeaux, this was worth £87.50 sterling.

  13 J. R. Maddicott, Simon de Montfort (Cambridge, 1994), p. 117.

  14 Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, ed. F. Madden (RS, 1866–69), iii. 99, 320.

  15 Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, 6 vols., ed. H. R. Luard (RS, 1884–1889), vol. 5., p. 706.

  16 Ibid., pp. 697–8.

  17 J. R. Maddicott, op. cit., p. 188.

  18 The Song of Lewes, ed. C.L. Kingsford (Oxford, 1890), p. 38.

  19 Flores Historiarum, ed. H.R. Luard (RS, 1890), iii, p. 262.

  20 De Antiquis Legibus Liber. Chronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum, ed. T. Stapleton (1846) p. 73.

  21 Quoted in J. R. Maddicott, op. cit., p. 295.

  22 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, ed. H. Rothwell (London: Camden, vol. 89, 1957), p. 200.

  Notes to Chapter 2: Edward I (1272–1307)

  1 J. C. Parsons, Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England (New York, 1995), p. 14.

  2 Foedera, 7 vols (London, 1816–69), I, i, p. 189.

  3 Thomas Wright’s Political Songs of England, ed. P. Coss (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 130–1.

  4 The Chronicle of William de Rishanger, ed. J. O. Halliwell (1840), p. 78. John Marshal remarked that ‘he still had the hammer and anvils to make more and better sons’.

  5 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, ed. H. Rothwell (London: Camden vol. 89, 1957), pp. 210–12.

  6 F. M. Powicke, The Thirteenth Century 1216–1307, (2nd edn) (Oxford, 1962), p. 280.

  7 Le Livre des Hommages D‘Aquitaine, ed. Jean- Paul Trabut- Cussac (Bordeaux, 1959).

  8 Quoted in M. Biddle, King Arthur’s Round Table (Woodbridge, 2000), p. 393.

  9 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, op. cit., pp. 358–9. Interestingly, a similar story is told of Archbishop Winchelsey, who is reputed to have prompted a fatal heart attack in the Abbot of Oseney in 1297 – see The Chronicle of Lanercost, ed. H. Maxwell (London, 1913), pp. 162–3.

  10 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, op. cit., p. 216.

  11 Ibid., pp. 220–1.

  12 The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds 1212–1301, ed. A. Gransden (London, 1964), pp. 78–9.

  13 M. Prestwich, Edward I (Berkeley, 1988), p. 200.

  14 The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds 1212–1301, op. cit., pp. 113–14.

  15 J. P. Trabut- Cussac, L‘Administration Anglais een Gascogne Sous Henry III et Edouard I de 1254 a 1307 (Geneva, 1972), p. 211.

  16 The Chronicle of Lanercost, op. cit., p. 55.

  17 The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds 1212–1301, op. cit., p. 117.

  18 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, op. cit., pp. 289–90.

  19 Cited in Edward I, op. cit., p. 471.

  20 The Chronicle of Lanercost, op. cit., p. 86.

  21 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, op. cit., pp. 382–3.

  Notes to Chapter 3: Edward II (1307–1327)

  1 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, ed. H. Rothwell (Camden, third series, 89 1957), p. 291.

  2 G. L. Haskins, ‘A Chronicle of the Civil Wars of Edward II’, Speculum, 14 (1939), 75.

  3 The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds, 1212–1301, ed. A. Gransden (London, 1964), p. 158.

  4 Roll of the Princes, Barons and Knights who Attended Edward I at the Siege of Caerlaverock, ed. T. Wright (1864), p. 18.

  5 The Letters of Edward Prince of Wales, 1304–1305, ed. H. Johnstone (Cambridge, 1931), p. 11.

  6 The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, op. cit., pp. 382–3.

  7 Annales Paulini, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, ed. W. Stubbs (RS, London, 1882) i, p. 259.

  8 Ibid., p. 262; Flores Historiarum, ed. H. R. Luard (RS, London, 1890), iii, p. 331.

  9 Westminster Abbey Muniments, no. 5460.

  10 J. R. Maddicott, Thomas of Lancaster 1307–1322: A Study in the Reign of Edward II (Oxford, 1970), p. 325; J. R. S. Phillips, Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke 1307–1324(Oxford, 1972), p. 31.

  11 Thomas of Lancaster 1307–1322: A Study in the Reign of Edward II, op. cit., p. 124.

  12 Annales Londonienses, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols (London, 1882), p. 221.

  13 Flores Historiarum, op. cit., iii, p. 229.

  14 Thomas W. Ross, ed. ‘On the Evil Times of Edward II: A New Version from MS Bodley 48’, Anglia, 75 (1957), 173–93.

  Notes to Chapter 4: Edward III (1327–1377)

  1 Calendar of the Close Rolls 1323–1327, p. 577.

  2 Chronicle of Lanercost, ed. H. Maxwell (London, 1913), p. 258.

  3 Scalachronica, ed. H. Maxwell (Glasgow, 1907), p. 157.

  4 P. Chaplais, English Medieval Diplomatic Practice (London, 1982), p. 436.

  5 Chronicle of Lanercost, op. cit., p. 310. All of his subsidies in 1337 add up to £225,000.

  6 Chronica Adae Murimuth et Roberti de Avesbury, ed. E. M. Thompson (RS, London, 1889), p. 311.

  7 Foedera, 7 vols (London, 1816–69), II, ii, p. 1131.

  8 Annales Londonienses, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols (London, 1882), vol. 1, pp. 132–3.

  9 Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1367–1370, p. 341.

  10 Chronica Johannis de Reading et Anonymi Cantuariensis, 1346–1367, ed. J. Tait (Manchester, 1914), pp. 132–3.

  11 Chronicles of Jean Froissart, ed. G. Brereton (Harmondsworth, 1968), p. 69.

  12 Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1330–1334, p. 74.

  13 Chronicles of Jean Froissart, op. cit., p. 92.

  14 Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. G. Given- Wilson et al. (Woodbrige, 2005).

  15 Chroniques de Jean le Bel, eds J. Viard and E. Déprez (Paris, 1904–1905), vol. 2, p. 111.

  16 Chronica Adae Murimuth et Roberti de Avesbury, op. cit., p. 386.

  17 Chronicle of Lanercost, op. cit., p. 333.

  18 Chronicle of Lanercost, op. cit., p. 337.

  19 Menteith was executed as a traitor for having previously sworn an oath of homage to Edward III.

  20 Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, ed. J. R. Lumby (RS, London, 1883), vol. 8, p. 344.

  21 R. Horrox, The Black Death, (Manchester, 1994), p. 84.

  22 Quoted in R. Horrox, The Black Death, (Manchester, 1994), p. 250.

  23 The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince, ed. R. Barber (New York, 1986), p. 58.

  24 The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince, ed. R. Barber (London, p. 1979), p. 105.

  Notes to Chapter 5: Richard II (1377–1399)

  1 Anonimalle Chronicle 1333–1381, ed. V. H. Galbraith (Manchester, 1927), p. 127

  2 Ibid., p. 135.

  3 Ibid., p. 141.

  4 Chronicles of Froissart, trans. Lord Berners, ed. G. C. Macauley (London, 1924), p. 256.

  5 Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, ed. H. T. Riley (RS, London, 1863), vol I, p. 459.

  6 How near run a thing this was is revealed by Henry IV’s later
pardon to John Ferrour of Southwark who saved him in the Tower ‘in a wonderful and kind manner’.

  7 Historiae Vita et Regni Ricardi Secundi, ed. G. B. Stow, Jr. (Philadelphia, 1977), p. 66.

  8 The Westminster Chronicle 1381–1394, ed. L. C. Hector and B. F. Harvey (Oxford, 1982), p. 69.

  9 TNA, E 101/401/5, f. 1.

  10 Knighton’s Chronicle 1337–1396, ed. G. H. Martin (Oxford, 1995), p. 215.

  11 Ibid., pp. 354–62.

  12 The Westminster Chronicle 1381–1394, op. cit., pp. 234–5. The parliament roll assigns a similar profession of innocence only to Gloucester.

  13 Kenilworth Chronicle (British Library Add. MS 35295), cited in M. V. Clarke, Fourteenth Century Studies (Oxford, reprint, 1969), p. 98.

  14 Chronicles of the Revolution 1397–1400, ed. C. Given- Wilson (Manchester, 1993) p. 90.

  15 Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 1391–1397, p. 293.

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