Edward II: The Unconventional King (55 page)

100
.
Foedera
, 216.

101
.
CCR 1307–13
, 537.

102
. Chaplais,
Piers Gaveston
, 111–12.

103
.
Itinerary
, 98;
Vita
, 39.

104
. ‘Secular Musicians’, 64;
Register
, 122; quotation from Brown and Degalado, ‘
Le grant feste
: Philip the Fair’s Celebration’, 59.

105
. Brown and Degalado, ‘
Le grant feste
’, 60–63; Kathleen M. Ashley and Wim N. M. Hüsken,
Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(2001), 124.

106
.
Chronique Métrique de Godefroy de Paris
, ed. J.-A. Buchon (1827), 194.

107
. ‘
Le grant feste
’, 64, 66; Ashley and Hüsken,
Moving Subjects
, 134, 142.

108
.
Register
, 9.

109
.
Register
, 165;
Multitudo
, 51.

110
.
Chronique Métrique
, 196 (also for the ‘completely naked’ quote).

111
. ‘
Le grant feste
’, 64, 71–2.

112
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 229, 280.

113
. Trease, ‘The Spicers and Apothecaries’, 46.

114
.
Trokelowe
, 80.

115
.
CPR 1313–7
, 21–6, 35–6;
Foedera
, 230–3;
AL
, 222–9.

116
.
Vita
, 43.

117
.
Lanercost
, 203;
Vita
, 43.

118
.
Livere
, 331.

119
.
Vita
, 43–4.

6 Military Disaster and Famine

1
.
Flores
, 155–6;
Vita
, 45;
Gesta
, 45;
Melsa
, 329.

2
.
Lanercost
, 202–203;
Flores
, 155–6;
Vita
, 45–6.

3
.
Foedera
, 101.

4
.
Itinerary
, 109–10;
Trokelowe
, 82.

5
. Weir,
Isabella
, 96–8; Doherty,
Death
, p. 57.

6
.
CPR 1313–7
, 5, 38, 85–7.

7
. See Phillips, 222.

8
.
Trokelowe
, 83;
CCR 1313–8
, 38;
CPR 1324–7
, 193.

9
.
Trokelowe
, 83;
Historia Anglicana
, Vol. 1, 138–9;
CCR 1313–8
, 53.

10
.
Foedera
, 258.

11
. Weir,
Isabella
, 98.

12
.
Lanercost
, 204;
Vita
, 48;
Bruce
, 274–9.

13
.
Lanercost
, 202, 204;
Bruce
, 274, 277.

14
.
Scalacronica
, 51–2;
Vita
, 48;
Lanercost
, 204; Haines,
Edward
, 481, note 118.

15
.
Vita
, 49.

16
.
Scalacronica
, 60.

17
.
Bruce
, 336.

18
.
Lancaster
, 162–3.

19
.
Bruce
, 276–7; Nusbacher,
Bannockburn 1314
, 24–8; Reese,
Greatest Victory
, 52–3.

20
.
Vita
, 50 (twenty leagues); Reese,
Greatest Victory
, 115–19, and Nusbacher,
Bannockburn 1314
, 85–114; Nusbacher, 89, for Hereford.

21
.
Lanercost
, 206;
Flores
, 158.

22
. Saaler,
Edward II
, 75.

23
. Nusbacher,
Bannockburn 1314
, 89.

24
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 221–2.

25
. Derek Birley,
Sport and the Making of Britain
(1993), 32.

26
. Kathleen Edwards, ‘Political Importance of English Bishops’, 324, 328.

27
.
Baker
, 7.

28
. Wright,
Political Songs
, 262–3.

29
.
Vita
, 49.

30
. For the battle, see Chris Brown,
Bannockburn 1314: A New History
; John Sadler,
Bannockburn: Battle for Liberty
; Aryeh Nusbacher,
Bannockburn 1314
; Peter Reese,
Bannockburn: Scotland’s Greatest Victory
.

31
.
Vita
, 52–3.

32
.
Trokelowe
, 86.

33
.
Scalacronica
, 54.

34
.
Lanercost
, 208–9. See also
AP
, 276;
AL
, 230–1;
Gesta
, 46;
Vita
, 54–5.

35
. Reese,
Greatest Victory
,
172; Nusbacher,
Bannockburn 1314
, 211–2.

36
.
Issues
, 134;
CPR 1313–7
, 273;
CPR 1317–21
, 111;
CCR 1313–8
, 298, 497.

37
.
Scalacronica
, 57;
Vita
, 55; Reese,
Greatest Victory
, 172–3.

38
.
Baker
, 9.

39
. Doherty,
Death
, 60.

40
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 108–9.

41
.
Anonimalle
, 88;
AL
, 231;
Lanercost
, 208.

42
.
CCR 1313–8
, 71, 76;
CDS
, 63–4.

43
.
Vita
, 54–5.

44
.
Traitor
, 64.

45
. Vita
, 56.

46
.
Trokelowe
, 87.

47
.
Trokelowe
, 86.

48
.
Lanercost
, 210–11.

49
.
Foedera
, 254–5.

50
.
CPR 1313–7
, 169; Sayles,
Functions
, 317.

51
.
Place
, 93.

52
. Weir,
Isabella
, 102–3.

53
. Johnstone, 129–30; Johnstone, ‘Eccentricities of Edward II’, 264–67; Michael Prestwich,
Plantagenet England 1225–1360
, 180–1; Phillips, 277.

54
. Phillips, 277–8.

55
.
CPR 1313–7
, 160, 183;
Foedera
, 256;
CDS
, 71.

56
.
CDS
, 59, 95.

57
.
Lanercost
, 211.

58
.
CCR 1313–8
, 131–8.

59
.
CCR 1313–8
, 204.

60
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 171, 245. There was a custom to choose a boy from a church or cathedral choir to act as ‘boy-bishop’. Although he wasn’t allowed to celebrate the Eucharist, he blessed people, gave at least one sermon, and gave out alms to the poor. The boy-bishop’s ‘reign’ usually began on 6 December and ended on the 28th.

61
. SAL MS 122, 62, 64, 75.

62
.
Foedera
, 259; TNA E/101/375/15; E/101/376/2; E/101/375/16. The funeral took place either on 2 or 3 January 1315: Phillips, 241 note 21; Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 100; Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 110–11.

63
.
Murimuth
, 17; C. F. R. Palmer, ‘The Friar–Preachers of Kings Langley’,
The Reliquary
, 23 (1882–3), 156.

64
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 166, note 84.

65
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 166, note 81.

66
.
Vita
, 58.

67
.
CCR 1313–8
, 139.

68
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 100, 166–7.

69
. Haines,
Edward
, 94;
Valence
, 83.

70
. Alison Marshall, ‘Childhood and Household’,
RENP
, 204.

71
.
Vita
, 123.

72
. TNA C/81/90/3241;
Valence
, 132.

73
.
AP
, 279.

74
.
Vita
, 63–70.

75
.
Foedera
, 263, 266;
Anonimalle
, 88.

76
.
Vita
, 69;
Anonimalle
, 90.

77
.
Anonimalle
, 90;
Lanercost
, 217;
Trokelowe
, 92.

78
.
Trokelowe
, 93.

79
.
Trokelowe
, 92.

80
.
Vita
, 70;
Trokelowe
, 95.

81
.
Trokelowe
, 95.

82
.
Vita
, 70.

83
.
Bruce
, 203;
Traitor
, 66–71, 80–81.

84
.
Traitor
, 70–71;
CDS
, 89.

85
.
Lanercost
, 213–6, and
Vita
, 61–2, for the siege (quotation from
Lanercost
, 215).

86
.
Lanercost
, 216.

87
.
CPR 1313–7
, 306–07;
CFR 1307–1319
, 248.

88
. Walsingham,
Historia Anglicana
, i, 137.

89
.
Vita
, 75–6.

90
.
Issues
, 126.

91
.
Scalacronica
, 65.

92
.
Foedera
, 274–5;
CCR 1313–8
, 306;
AL
, 238–9.

93
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 237, 307.

94
.
Flores
, 173; Phillips, 252.

95
. Johnstone,
Letters of Edward
, 7, 105;
Register
, 19.

96
. Haines,
Edward
, 359, note 38.

97
. TNA E 101/376/25;
CPR 1313–7
, 355–6.

98
. Johnstone, 130.

99
.
Flores
, 173;
Itinerary
, 132–7;
Foedera
, 277–83;
CPR 1313–7
, 352–79;
CCR 1313–7
, 248–62;
CCW
, 422–35, show that Edward was in the Fens in autumn.

100
.
Croniques
, 35, for 1308/09;
AL
, 158, for 1309/10; also
AP
, 268.

101
. Yonge,
Flowers of History
, 582; Derek Vincent Stern,
A Hertfordshire Demesne of Westminster Abbey: Profits, Productivity and Weather
, ed. Christopher Thornton (2000), 98–9.

102
.
Issues
, 128–9.

103
.
Register
, 147; ‘Secular Musicians’, 66.

104
.
Scalacronica
, 65;
CCR 1323–7
, 440–1;
CPR 1313–7
, 422; Prestwich, ‘Unreliability of Household Knights’, 10.

105
.
CPR 1313–7
, 372, 378, 384, 525, 598, 609, 615, etc;
CFR 1307–19
, 225, 294, 316–17.

106
.
Flores
, 178.

7 Conflicts, Marriages and an Abduction

1
.
PROME
.

2
. McKisack,
Fourteenth Century
, 47.

3
.
PROME
; Sayles,
Functions
, 353.

4
.
CPR 1313–7
, 398.

5
.
Issues
, 131.

6
. ‘Brief Summary’, 342–3.

7
.
Lanercost
, 217, and see also
Vita
, 69–70;
Gesta
, 48.

8
.
Vita
, 66–7.

9
.
Vita
, 67;
CPR 1313–17
, 384, 433;
Foedera
, 283.

10
.
CCR 1313–18
, 274–5, 283.

11
.
CCR 1313–18
, 419;
Foedera
, 334.

12
.
Lancaster
, 184.

13
.
CCW
, 436–7;
PROME
, 355–6;
Issues
, 131.

14
.
Foedera
, 288.

15
.
CCR 1313–18
, 462;
CCR 1318–23
, 187, 363, 525, 641, 699;
CCR 1323–7
, 353, 556.

16
.
Issues
, 132.

17
.
Lanercost
, 217.

18
. J. S. Hamilton, ‘Character of Edward II’,
RENP
, 13–14.

19
.
Foedera
, 271;
CCR 1313–18
, 301;
CPR 1313–17
, 332–3;
CCR 1313–18
, 454.

20
. ‘Brief Summary’, 343.

21
.
CPR 1307–13
, 272;
CPR 1313–17
, 360.

22
.
Foedera
, 290.

23
. ‘Brief Summary’, 343–4.

24
. Chaplais,
English Medieval Diplomatic Practice
, Part 1, Vol. 2, 820.

25
. ‘Brief Summary’, 319–20.

26
. Prestwich,
Edward I
, 113; Prestwich, ‘The Piety of Edward I’, 125; Phillips, 71.

27
. ‘Court’
,
67.

28
.
Itinerary
, 142–144; ‘Brief Summary’, 320.

29
.
Lancaster
, 187.

30
. ‘Brief Summary’, 322–3;
Issues
, 133;
CPR 1313–17
, 608.

31
.
Foedera
, 293;
CPR 1313–17
, 527.

32
. Edward gave a pound to the messenger who brought him news of John XXII’s election on 17 August: ‘Brief Summary’, 321.

33
. ‘Brief Summary’, 320;
Trokelowe
, 95.

34
.
CCR 1313–8
, 430;
Foedera
, 296.

35
. ‘Brief Summary’, 336; Phillips, 279.

36
.
Flores
, 176–7.

37
.
CPR 1313–17
, 621; ‘Brief Summary’, 320.