Edward II: The Unconventional King (57 page)

23
.
Vita
, 94;
Lancaster
, 246–7.

24
.
CDS
, 124; L
ancaster
, 246–7.

25
.
Lanercost
, 226.

26
. Saaler,
Edward II
, 97.

27
. Prestwich,
Edward I
, 115.

28
.
Trokelowe
, 103.

29
. Doherty,
Death
, 64.

30
.
Vita
, 95–7.

31
. Haskins, ‘Chronicle of the Civil Wars’, 77.

32
.
AP
, 287–8;
Flores
, 188; Doherty,
Death
, 63–4; Phillips, 347.

33
.
Trokelowe
, 104;
Gesta
, 57.

34
.
Lanercost
, 227;
Livere
, 337;
Brut
, 211–12.

35
.
CCW
, 570.

36
.
Lancaster
, 248–9.

37
. Cited in
Lancaster
, 249.

38
.
Gesta
, 57.

39
.
Vita
, 104; also
Flores
, 188.

40
. Saaler,
Edward II
, 97.

41
.
Trokelowe
, 104;
Itinerary
, 187.

42
.
Walsingham
, 155–6; Phillips, 349.

43
.
Flores
, 188;
Lancaster
, 247.

44
.
Lanercost
, 227–8.

45
.
CPR 1317–21
, 414, 416;
Foedera
, 409–11.

46
.
Livere
, 337.

47
. TNA C 47/22/12;
Flores
, 190–3.

48
.
Foedera
, 412.

49
. Rouse Ball,
King’s Scholars
, 6–8.

50
. Weir,
Isabella
, 124.

51
.
Livere
, 337.

52
.
PROME
.

53
.
Foedera
, 417–8.

54
.
Valence
, 189.

55
.
AP
, 288.

56
.
Foedera
, 20, 21, 43, 179, 355, 385.

57
. Sayles,
Functions
, 360.

58
.
Livere
, 337.

59
.
Flores
, 193;
CCR 1327–30
, 4; SAL MS 122, 76.

60
. ‘Brief Summary’, 334.

61
.
CPR 1317–21
, 448–55.

62
. ‘Brief Summary’, 332–3.

63
. Morris,
Terrible King
, 43, 108.

64
. E. Pole Stuart, ‘Interview Between Philip V and Edward II’, 412–15; the translation is from Vale,
Origins of the Hundred Years War
, 51, and see also Phillips, 358–9.

65
.
Scalacronica
, 74–5.

66
. ‘Secular Musicians’, 69;
Register
, 144.

67
.
AP
, 290;
Foedera
, 428.

68
.
Valence
, 190–1.

69
. Chaplais,
English Medieval Diplomatic Practice
, Part 1, Vol. 1, 64–6.

70
.
CCR 1318–23
, 326;
Foedera
, 433; ‘Brief Summary’, 338–9.

71
. Cited in
PROME
.

72
. Haines,
Edward
, 45.

10 The Despenser War

1
.
Lanercost
, 230.

2
.
Vita
, 115.

3
.
AP
, 292;
Trokelowe
, 107;
Walsingham
, 252.

4
.
Baker
, 11, translated by Haines,
Edward
, 124.

5
.
AP
, 259.

6
.
Brut
, 212.

7
.
Anonimalle
, 92.

8
.
Vita
, 115.

9
.
Flores
, 194–6;
Lanercost
, 229;
Knighton
, 196.

10
.
Scalacronica
, 70.

11
. J. Goronwy Edwards,
Calendar of Ancient Correspondence
, 219–20.

12
.
Vita
, 108–09.

13
.
Place
, 124, calls the Marchers’ privileges ‘a dangerous anachronism’.

14
.
CCR 1318–23
, 268, for Gower;
Vita
, 108, for the quote; see also
AP
, 293.

15
.
CPR 1317–21
, 547–8.

16
.
Vita
, 109.

17
.
Polychronicon
, 298–300;
Scalacronica
, 75.

18
.
Foedera
, 437.

19
.
CCR 1318–23
, 365.

20
.
Foedera
, 437.

21
.
Issues
, 135.

22
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 308.

23
. Edwards,
Ancient Correspondence
, 219.

24
.
CCR 1318–23
, 355.

25
.
Brut
, 213;
Lancaster
, 267.

26
.
Vita
, 111.

27
.
CCR 1318–23
, 260, 285–6, 326;
CPR 1317–21
, 505.

28
.
Vita
, 128–9.

29
.
CCR 1318–23
, 260.

30
.
CFR 1319–27
, 15, 18;
CFR 1307–19
, 103.

31
.
CIM
, 245; TNA SC 8/160/7986.

32
.
Valence
, 191.

33
.
CPL
1342–62
, 164.

34
. ‘Brief Summary’, 338.

35
.
Foedera
, 444;
CCR 1318–23
, 363.

36
.
CCR 1318–23
, 363–5;
Foedera
, 446.

37
.
CCR 1323–27
, 359.

38
.
Foedera
, 446.

39
.
Lancaster
, 265.

40
.
Vita
, 109.

41
.
CCR 1318–23
, 367–8.

42
. Stevenson, ‘Letter of the Younger Despenser’, 761.

43
. Cited in
Lancaster
, 266, note 2.

44
. ‘Secular Musicians’, 66;
Register
, 32–3.

45
.
Vita
, 110.

46
.
Brut
, 213;
Trokelowe
, 109;
AP
, 303.

47
. Cited in
Lancaster
, 266, note 2.

48
.
Foedera
, 449; ‘Secular Musicians’, 69.

49
.
CCR 1318–23
, 541–3;
Flores
, 344–5;
Vita
, 110;
AP
, 293.

50
.
CCR 1318–23
, 541–2; J. C. Davies, ‘The Despenser War in Glamorgan’, 55–6.

51
. TNA SC 8/6/298; Davies, ‘Despenser War’, 58.

52
.
CCR 1318–23
, 543–4;
CCR 1323–27
, 118.

53
.
Vita
, 115. The author described the elder Despenser as ‘brutal and greedy’, and had no better opinion of the younger Hugh:
Vita
, 114–15.

54
. Cited in Haines,
Edward
, 124.

55
. ‘Brief Summary’, 335; Davies, ‘Despenser War’, 58.

56
.
CPR 1321–4
, 167–8, 249.

57
.
. CCR 1318–23
, 541;
Flores
, 345.

58
. TNA Arundell Deeds 215/1.

59
.
Place
, 127.

60
.
CPR 1317–21
, 591, 596–7.

61
.
Valence
, 205–06.

62
.
Tyranny
, 140.

63
. ‘Brief Summary’, 338, 344–5; Vale,
Princely Court
, 308.

64
.
Brut
, 213.

65
. TNA SC 8/7/301.

66
. TNA SC 8/92/4561;
Trokelowe
, 108;
Walsingham
, 160.

67
.
Brut
, 213–4;
Lancaster
, 272–7.

68
.
CFR 1319–27
, 68.

69
. Tebbit, ‘Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance’, 206.

70
.
Foedera
, 452.

71
.
CPR 1321–24
, 23.

72
.
CPR 1327–30
, 163.

73
.
CCR 1313–8
, 477;
Foedera
, 453.

74
.
AP
, 294.

75
.
Vita
, 112;
AP
, 294–6.

76
.
Lancaster
, 283–5;
PROME
.

77
.
AP
, 296–7.

78
.
Vita
, 113.

79
. Haines,
Edward
, 128–9.

80
.
AP
, 297.

81
.
CCR 1318–23
, 494;
Vita
, 113;
AP
, 297;
Anonimalle
, 100.

82
.
Murimuth
, 33;
Baker
, 11; Haines,
Edward
, 129.

83
.
Murimuth
, 33.

84
.
Vita
, 121.

85
.
CCR 1318–23
, 492–494, 541–3;
PROME
.

86
.
CPR 1321–24
, 15–21;
Foedera
; 454; TNA DL 10/234;
PROME
.

87
.
Vita
, 116.

88
.
PROME
; Phillips, 394.

11 The King’s Revenge

1
.
Brut
, 214;
Anonimalle
, 100.

2
.
Vita
, 115–6, for the quote, and also
Brut
, 214;
AP
, 300;
Anonimalle
, 100;
Croniques
, 42;
Flores
, 198;
Trokelowe
, 110;
Scalacronica
, 70; G. A. Holmes, ‘Judgement on the Younger Despenser, 1326’, 264.

3
.
Foedera
, 941.

4
.
CPR 1324–7
, 130.

5
.
Murimuth
, 33.

6
.
CCR 1318–23
, 477–8.

7
.
AP
, 298; TNA SC 8/17/833.

8
.
Valence
, 216.

9
.
AP
, 299.

10
. Weir,
Isabella
, 134.

11
.
Anonimalle
, 102–4;
Calendar of Letter-Books of London 1314–1337
, 155. See also
AP
, 298–9;
Baker
, 11–12;
Flores
, 199–200;
Livere
, 339;
Murimuth
, 35;
Trokelowe
, 110–11;
Vita
, 116.

12
.
Tyranny
, 51.

13
.
Vita
, 117.

14
.
Murimuth
, 34;
Scalacronica
, 67.

15
.
Anonimalle
, 102.

16
.
CFR 1319–27
, 76;
Anonimalle
, 102;
Croniques
, 43;
AP
, 299.

17
. Donald Matthew,
King Stephen
(2002), 80.

18
.
Vita
, 116.

19
.
CCR 1313–23
, 505–6;
Foedera
, 459.

20
.
Lancaster
, 300.

21
.
Livere
, 339.

22
.
Lancaster
, 304.

23
.
CPR 1321–4
, 37;
CCR 1318–23
, 410, 510–11.

24
. Haines,
Edward
, 134.

25
.
CCR 1318–23
, 510–11.

26
.
Livere
, 339.

27
.
Vita
, 116.

28
.
Flores
, 192–3.

29
.
CPR 1321–4
, 40.

30
.
CPR 1321–4
, 45.

31
.
Letters of the Kings of England
, 23–4.

32
.
Vita
, 117.

33
.
Trokelowe
, 111;
AP
, 301; Vale,
Princely Court
, 309.

34
.
CCR 1318–23
, 510–11;
Foedera
, 470.

35
. Mark Buck,
Politics, Finance and the Church
, 138–9; Edwards, ‘Political Importance’, 339.

36
.
CCR 1318–23
, 516; Scott L. Waugh, ‘Profits of Violence’, 850.

37
. Waugh, ‘Profits of Violence’, 850; Haines,
Edward
, 135.

38
.
CPR 1321–4
, 47; L
ancaster
, 306.

39
.
Foedera
, 471;
CPR 1321–4
, 47.

40
.
Vita
, 118; see also
Gesta
, 74.

41
.
CCR 1318–23
, 511–14;
Foedera
, 471.

42
.
Vita
, 121.

43
. Tebbit, ‘Household Knights’, 90.

44
.
CPR 1321–4
, 202, 307.

45
.
CPR 1321–4
, 47–8, 51;
Foedera
, 472.

46
.
Vita
, 119.

47
.
Croniques
, 43;
Vita
, 119.

48
. TNA SC 8/6/255.

49
.
CPR 1321–4
, 62, 77;
CCR 1318–23
, 418, 422, 519.

50
.
Vita
, 119; Haines,
Church and Politics
, 142.

51
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 309.

52
.
CFR 1319–27
, 91.