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Erpingham, Sir Thomas (d. 1428), chamberlain (1399–1402), steward (Feb.–Nov. 1404): 76, 94, 106, 118, 160, 171, 188, 196, 207, 234, 239, 256, 282, 318, 324, 340, 356

Eulogium Historiarum,
continuation of: 184, 366, 367, 374

Evesham: 175, 315, 380; abbot of: 73

Exeter: 129, 259, 260, 407; bishops of:
see
Brantingham, Thomas; Stafford, Edmund; duke of:
see
Holland, John; duchess of:
see
Elizabeth of Lancaster; University of: 11

Exton, Nicholas, mayor of London: 66

Exton, Sir Piers/Peter: 212, 215, 257

falconry:
see
hunting and falconry

Falmouth: 259

Farnham: 259

Faryngton, William: 210, 216, 217, 421

Fauconberg, Sir John (d. 1405): 294

Faversham: 350

Faxfleet: 380

Ferriby, John: 189

Ferro, Thomas: 409

Ferrour, John: 18, 208, 389

feudal aid: 245

Field of The Cloth of Gold: 133

Fife, earl of:
see
Stewart, Robert

fish: 92, 110, 118, 401, 408

Fitzalan, Alice (d. 1416), countess of Kent (1364): 26

Fitzalan, Joan:
see
Arundel, Joan

Fitzalan, Richard (d. 1376), earl of Arundel (1331): 26

Fitzalan, Richard (1346–1397), earl of Arundel (1376): 26, 52, 63, 64, 70, 71, 73, 81, 102, 117, 122, 137, 149, 153, 169, 189, 199, 226, 397, 399, 405, 409;
see also
Lords Appellant

Fitzalan, Thomas (d. 1413):
see
Arundel, Thomas

Fitzalan, Thomas (1381–1415), earl of Arundel (1397): 169, 195, 296, 334, 341, 342, 421, 439

Fitzrandolph, Sir John: 294

Fitzwalter, Walter (1369–1406), Lord Fitzwalter (1386): 202

Flanders, Flemish: 16, 289, 292, 337

Fleming, Richard: 336, 337

Flete, Simon (d. 1430), keeper of the privy wardrobe (1407–13): 434

Flint Castle: 179, 180, 227

Flynt, Matthew, toothdrawer: 383

Fordham, John (d. 1425), bishop of Durham (1381–8), bishop of Ely (1388–1425), treasurer (1386): 65, 67, 399

Forest of Dean: 64

Forrester, Sir Adam: 222, 223, 253, 254

Fosse Way: 72

Fotheringay: 439

Fowler, John: 283

France, the French: 3, 5, 12, 14, 21, 23, 29, 35, 51, 56, 57, 65, 78, 101, 115, 133, 135; 137, 155, 159, 160, 169, 170, 197, 198, 210, 215, 216, 241, 246, 253, 257, 273, 285, 286, 289, 292, 301, 317, 319, 340; diplomatic relations with, prior to Sept. 1399: 52, 53, 55, 83, 102, 116, 117, 120, 125, 129, 131, 134; diplomatic relations with, after Sept. 1399: 198, 205, 210, 213, 216, 218, 221, 229, 230, 237, 241, 245, 262, 283, 313, 318, 328, 335, 337, 338, 342, 438; expedition to (1411): 341, 343, 344, 346; ‘pirate war’ with: 277, 283, 284; relations with Glendower:
see
Wales

France, kings of:
see
Charles VI

Francis the Lombard: 279

Frankfurt an der Oder: 106

French language: 29, 45, 180, 323

Friesland: 131, 132

friars: Austin: 16; Carmelite (White Friars): 54, 55, 62, 173; Dominicans (Black Friars): 249, 331; Franciscans (Grey Friars): 249; conspiracy of the (1402): 248, 257, 353, 356, 426

Frisby, Roger: 250, 251

Froissart, Jean: 22, 39, 80, 86, 128, 133, 135, 153, 155, 160, 161, 163, 170, 192, 258

Fulham: 346

Furnival, Lord:
see
Neville, Thomas

Galicia: 84

games: 74, 94, 104, 231, 402

Ganville, Nicholas (d. 1403): 442

Garter, Order of the: 23, 33, 34, 49, 50, 69, 70, 76, 89, 118, 153, 156, 195, 199, 245, 292, 307, 313, 326, 336, 342, 418

Gascoigne, Sir William (d. 1419), judge: 297, 431

Gascony: 19, 23, 26, 27, 29, 34, 35, 85, 103, 104, 122, 123, 126, 128, 129, 232, 242, 278, 305, 307, 313, 317, 341, 363, 425, 439

Gaveston, Piers (d. 1312), earl of Cornwall (1307): 19, 137

Gdansk:
see
Danzig

Genoese: 292

Geoffrey (1158–1186), duke of Brittany (1181): 30

gift-giving: 29, 37, 40, 56, 62, 63, 76, 79, 82, 87, 96, 99, 101, 102, 114, 117, 118, 121, 127, 133, 134, 159, 229, 390, 401, 411, 413

Gilbert, John (d. 1397), bishop of Hereford (1375–89),
bishop of St David’s (1389), treasurer (1386–9): 67, 83

Giles of Rome (d. 1316), archbishop of Bourges: 48

Glendower, Owen (
c.
1359–1416), prince of Wales (1400): 225, 233, 240, 242, 243, 248, 251, 252, 261, 264, 274, 281, 283, 291, 292, 296, 304, 305, 310, 318, 328, 340, 348, 357, 358, 362, 424, 426, 439; brother, Tudor (d. 1406): 226, 227, 292; compared with Henry IV: 291, 362; crowned Owen IV: 285; son, Gruffydd (d. 1411?): 292, 307, 314, 430; son, Maredudd: 292; Tripartite Indenture (1405): 290, 291

Glyndyfrdwy: 226, 227, 265

Gloucester: 127, 175, 314, 433, 434;
see also
parliaments

Gloucester, dukes of:
see
Thomas of Woodstock; Bohun, Humphrey; duchess of:
see
Bohun, Eleanor; earl of:
see
Despenser, Thomas

Golafre, Sir John: 82, 87, 151

goldsmiths:
see
jewels and jewellery

Goldsborough, Sir Richard (d. 1428), chamber knight: 94

Görlitz: 107

Gottesknight, Klaus: 96, 106

Gousile, B (d. 1403): 442

Gower, John (d. 1408), poet: 45, 46, 120, 177, 360, 405, 418

Grailly, Jean de (d. 1377), Captal de Buch: 34

Granada: 127

Grandison, Sir Otto: 106

Gravesend: 350

Great Cowcher: 302

Great Haywood: 150

Greek language: 45, 393

Green Hammerton: 300, 302, 303, 322

Green, Henry: 151, 176

Greenwich: 15, 17, 307, 325

Grey, Richard (1371–1418), Lord Grey of Codnor (1392), chamberlain (1404–13): 292, 324

Grey, Reginald (
c.
1362–1440), Lord Grey of Ruthin (1388): 226, 227, 248, 251, 255, 357

Grey, Thomas: 198

Greyndour, Sir John: 292, 427

Grimbald Bridge: 320

Grimsby: 415

Grisby, Richard, abbot of Dore, physician: 382, 443

Groby: 334

Grosmont: 291, 293, 304, 430

Grosvenor, Sir Robert (d. 1396): 62

Gruffydd, son of Owen Glendower:
see
Glendower

Gubin: 107

Guelderland, duke of: 131, 132, 237

Guines: 133, 346, 400

guns and gunpowder: 16, 38, 95, 221, 227, 303, 304, 319, 320, 359, 402, 431

Haddenstank: 198

Hadley Castle: 208

Hainault: 87, 160, 327

Hales, Sir Robert (d. 1381), prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem, treasurer of England (1381): 14, 15, 17, 18

Halesowen, abbot of (d. 1408): 320, 321, 354

Hall, John (d. 1399), valet: 201, 205, 285, 410

Hallum, Robert (d. 1417), bishop of Salisbury (1407): 331

Halsall, Sir Gilbert (d. 1403): 442

Hangest, Jean de, lord of Hugueville: 229, 230, 305

Hanmer, Sir David (d. 1387), lawyer: 226

Hanmer, John: 303

Hanseatic League: 106, 325

Hardyng, John (
c.
1378–1465), chronicler: 173, 184

Harfleur: 210, 286

Harlech: 265, 284, 285, 291, 328

Harringay Park: 71

Harriss, Gerald Leslie, historian: 5, 6

Hastings, Sir Hugh (d. 1386): 90

Hastings, Sir Ralph: 294

Haughmond Abbey: 268, 269, 428

Haverfordwest: 305

Havering: 229

Hawarden: 227

Hawkston, Sir John: 145

Hawley, Sir John (d. 1408): 277, 286, 429

Haxey Thomas: 136, 137, 205

Hayward, Sir John (d. 1627), historian: 2, 167

Healaugh: 427

Henley-on-the-Heath: 326

Henry I (1068–1135), king of England (1100): 388

Henry II (1133–1189), king of England (1154): 30, 296, 297

Henry III (1207–1272), king of England (1216): 19, 21, 24, 106, 174, 184, 185, 190, 191, 219, 354, 359, 360, 368, 417

Henry IV, ‘Henry of Bolingbroke’ (1367–1413), earl of Derby (1377?), Hereford and Northampton, duke of Hereford (1397), duke of Lancaster (1399), king of England (1399): abdication suggested: 327, 328, 338, 437; adopts/converts pagans: 97, 114; ancestry: 20, 23, 24, 174; annuities, payment of: 242, 279, 282, 286, 335, 356, 424, 438; argument with Mowbray: 147, 190, 358, 412; as head of the Lancastrian council before 1398: 41, 123, 129; as a Lord Appellant:
see
Lords Appellants; attempts on his life before accession: 147, 148, 154, 196, 218; attempts on his life after accession:
see below, under
plots against him; baldness: 302, 303; betrayal of the earl of Arundel: 144; birth: 19, 25, 364, 365; buildings: 220; character: 6, 7, 12, 42, 79, 96, 159, 164, 170, 171, 220, 224, 232, 235, 236, 239, 257, 280, 281, 283, 298, 309, 310, 352; childhood: 27, 390; chivalric reputation: 88, 97, 98, 107, 115, 125, 230; campaigns in Scotland: 53, 57, 59; cannon designed by: 319, 320; compared with Oliver Cromwell: 362, 363; compared with Owen Glendower: 291, 362; coronation: 192, 194, 195, 198, 220; creations by: 439, 440;
see also
Beaufort, Thomas; Thomas of Lancaster; death of: 348; duke of Hereford, created: 145, 387, 410; earl of Derby, assumes title: 33, 391; education: 29, 33, 37, 45, 355, 392; exile 1398–99: 157, 176, 190, 246, 352, 382; financial problems during reign: 221, 229, 232, 241, 242, 244, 245, 254, 255, 261, 263, 269, 277, 281, 284, 286, 304, 306, 312, 335, 336, 347, 358, 359, 361; foreign policy:
see
France; Ireland; Scotland; Wales; funeral: 350, 385; handwriting:
45, 277, 303, 321, 323, 325, 360; heresy, attitude to: 126, 197, 233, 235, 236, 330, 337; illegitimate son: 238; illnesses and injuries: 8, 71, 72, 96, 121, 154, 300”4, 306, 312, 316, 318, 320, 327, 334, 338, 345, 347, 358, 377”83, 396, 397, 408, 431; infancy: 25; insignia possibly left in Venice: 404, 405; invades England 1399, 170, 415; kingship: 3, 196, 204, 234, 248, 277, 287, 361; knighted: 33, 34, 262; lawlessness under: 236, 339; letters to and from Louis of Orléans:
see
Louis; London houses: 412; marriages: 37, 39, 62, 99, 118, 121, 138, 161, 162, 245, 246, 247, 259, 356, 370, 392;
see also
Bohun, Mary; Joan of Navarre; Maundy payments: 44, 127, 154, 196, 355, 360, 364, 365, 3847 mercy shown by: 176, 197, 199, 203, 208, 209, 219, 241, 250, 254, 304, 315, 357, 361; as a military commander:
see below;
mottoes: 385; as a negotiator: 222, 223, 229, 230; oath at Doncaster (1399): 173, 174, 178, 186, 387; orders Richard II to be killed: 211, 228, 258, 259, 269, 288, 310, 318, 350, 359, 422; pastimes:
see
books; games; hunting and falconry; jesters; jousting; music and musicians; in Peasants’ Revolt (1381): 13, 37, 38, 41, 208; pilgrimage to Jerusalem (1392–3): 105, 218, 360, 404;
see also
Jerusalem; plots against him:
see below;
popularity in 1398–1400, 156, 159, 160, 170, 172, 174, 176, 177, 179, 181, 182, 188, 195, 196, 198, 207, 208, 210, 218, 221, 228, 362; proclaimed king: 188; in Prussia: 4, 89, 102, 104, 105, 171: relationship with father:
see
John of Gaunt; relationship with Richard II:
see
Richard II; relationship with son:
see
Henry V; resignation of certain duties (1406): 308, 311, 312; in Richard’s household: 33, 37, 78, 391, 392; right to inherit the throne:
see
succession, order of; ‘sovereign’ power of, prior to accession: 173, 178, 387, 417, 444; speed of travel in 1406 and 1407, 377; spirituality and religious outlook: 44, 45, 47, 94, 97, 105, 107, 111“2, 196, 197, 200, 220, 235, 236, 251, 258, 268, 298, 299, 310, 322, 334, 354, 355: superstition: 118; taxation under: 196, 224, 232, 234, 236, 245, 278, 281, 286, 287, 294, 309, 316, 335, 336, 340, 358, 361; tradition reputation: 1, 192, 353, 362, 363; weeps at parents’ tomb (1399): 182; weeps on reconciliation with son (1412): 345; will (1409): 323, 355, 437; will (1413): 350, 441; wit of: 195, 232, 357

Henry IV: as military commander: 4, 72, 95, 174, 198, 207, 218, 220, 227, 228, 287, 305, 314, 343; Scotland, campaign in (1400):
see
Scotland; Wales, campaigns in:
see
Wales; at Shrewsbury (1403): 266

Henry IV plots against him: 348, 429; 1400, January:
see
Epiphany Rising; 1400, September:
see
Glendower; 1400, November: 228; 1401, September: 244, 425; 1402, May–June:
see
Friars, conspiracy of; 1403, July:
see
Percy family, rebellion of; 1404, April–May:
see
de Vere, Margaret; 1404, December: 288; 1405, February: 288, 289; 1405, May:
see
Yorkshire Rising; 1408, January: 319; 1412, June: 343, 344; 1413, March: 348

Henry IV Part One, Part Two: see
Shakespeare

Henry V, ‘Henry of Monmouth’ (1386–1422), prince of Wales, duke of Lancaster, duke of Aquitaine, and earl of Chester (1399), king of England (1413): 4, 5, 7: 44, 69, 71, 128, 149, 168, 171, 188, 194, 197, 203, 210, 261, 274, 308, 319, 322, 326, 328”30, 337, 350, 351, 354, 362, 363, 365, 393;
see also
councils; arguments with Archbishop Arundel:
see
Arundel, Thomas; attempt on his life (1400): 206; at battle of Shrewsbury (1403): 266, 271, 272, 375, 383, 428; birth: 64, 65, 371, 372, 395; campaign in Scotland (1400): 221; campaigns in Wales: 238, 240, 241, 252, 261, 265, 286, 291, 293, 314, 318, 327, 328, 330, 358; created prince of Wales, duke of Lancaster, etc: 199; as executor of his father’s will: 324, 350; formally appointed King’s Lieutenant in Wales: 261, 264; negotiations for marriage: 342; nominated to a Garter stall: 199; on Henry IV’s council: 312; present at Badby’s burning: 332; relationship with his father: 327, 328, 330, 333”5, 338”40, 342”7, 349, 350, 356, 363, 418, 438, 440; relationship with Richard II: 328, 436; relationship with brother:
see
Thomas of Lancaster

Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England (1422): 325, 349, 354

Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England (1485): 9, 44, 365 Henry of Grosmont (d. 1361), earl of Derby (1337), earl of Lancaster (1345), duke of Lancaster (1351): 9, 23, 29, 42, 44, 46, 90, 92, 97, 106, 149, 171, 412, 414

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