The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King (97 page)

Margaret of Flanders (d. 1405), duchess of Brittany: 133

Margaret of Brittany (1397–1428): 259

Marienberg: 89, 96

Market Harborough: 378, 426

Marseilles: 89

Mary I (1516–1558), queen of England (1553): 235

Mary of Berry (1367–1434), duchess of Bourbon (1410): 161, 180, 246

masks:
see
games

Massy, John (d. 1403), lord of Podington: 442

Mathathias: 265, 427

Maudeleyn, Richard (d. 1400), esquire: 206, 207, 421

McFarlane, Kenneth Bruce (1903–1966), historian: 2, 6, 7”9, 370

McMurrough, Art: 168

McNiven, Peter, historian: 8

Medford, Richard: 82

Melton, Geoffrey (d.
c.
1411), physician: 80, 382, 443

Memel, River: 94, 98

Menowe, William: 391

Merevale Abbey: 249

Merks, Thomas (d. 1409), bishop of Carlisle (1397): 177, 180, 191, 206, 209, 296, 354, 418

Mersey, River: 290

Merton Priory: 347

Messendon, Thomas: 400

Meung: 346

Michaelchurch: 276

Middleton, John (d. 1429), physician: 382

Milan: 114, 134, 135, 137, 169; duke of:
see
Visconti

Milford Haven: 177, 305

Milton, Richard: 288

Mint, the: 382

Molyneux, Sir Thomas (d. 1387): 72, 142

Mone, Guy (d. 1407), bishop of St David’s (1397), treasurer (1398, 1402–3): 177, 204, 205, 254, 255, 261, 266

Monkswood: 292

Monmouth: 64, 65, 371, 395

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de (d. 1453), chronicler: 349

Montagu, John (d. 1400), earl of Salisbury (1397): 119, 142, 148, 151, 161, 179, 180, 203, 205, 208, 410, 413;
see also
Counter-Appellants

Montagu, Sir William (d. 1382): 34

Montcuq, battle of (1345): 23

Montendre, William: 13, 36, 391

Montfort, John de (1339–1399), duke of Brittany (1361): 133, 157; 245, 246

Montgomery, Sir John: 80

More, Thomas (d. 1421), treasurer of the household (1401–5): 234

Moreton-in-Marsh: 72

Morley, Sir Robert: 90

Mortimer, Edmund (1352–1381), third earl of March (1360): 12, 31, 34, 49

Mortimer, Sir Edmund (1376–1409): 68, 251, 252, 255, 261, 264, 288, 290, 366; Tripartite Indenture (1405): 290, 291

Mortimer, Edmund (1391–1425), fifth earl of March (1398): 12, 99, 153, 173, 183, 192, 208, 264, 273, 274, 288, 290, 414, 418; kidnapping by Lady Despenser (1405): 288

Mortimer, Elizabeth (1371–1417), Lady Percy: 173

Mortimer family: 32, 52, 63, 67, 68, 71, 137, 142, 184, 186, 232, 251, 291, 357, 366, 368, 396, 406

Mortimer, Sir Hugh (d. 1403): 442

Mortimer, Sir Hugh (d. 1416): 318

Mortimer, Philippa (1375–1401), countess of Arundel (1390): 130

Mortimer, Roger (1287–1330), first earl of March (1328): 10, 20, 40, 77, 166, 398, 400, 419

Mortimer, Roger (1374–1398), fourth earl of March (1381): 19, 31, 49, 52, 68, 75, 83, 99, 119, 123, 142, 148, 151, 153; 183; 366; 368

Mortimer, Roger (1393–
c
. 1411), brother of the fifth earl of March: 153, 288

Mortimer, Sir Thomas: 71, 142, 144, 153, 397, 410

Mortlake: 321, 322, 347

Mount Hyddgen, battle of (1401): 240

Mowbray, Blanche (d. 1409), Lady Poynings: 390

Mowbray, John (d. 1383), earl of Nottingham (1377): 26, 27, 33, 49

Mowbray, Thomas (d. 1399), earl of Nottingham (1383), duke of Norfolk (1397): 26, 33, 49, 56, 59, 72, 74, 86”8, 102, 118, 120, 131, 139, 142, 147, 358, 386, 397, 398, 403, 404, 408, 409, 411, 412;
see also
Lords Appellant; Counter-Appellants; role in death of duke of Gloucester: 138, 143, 145, 148, 149, 153, 200, 412

Mowbray, Thomas (1385–1405), earl of Norfolk (1399): 293, 304

Murz, River: 108

music and musicians: 37, 41, 46, 47, 73, 96, 97, 99, 101, 109, 127, 220, 347, 355, 359, 360, 393, 402, 403, 407

Naas: 239

Nakerer, John: 407

Nantes: 259, 425

Navarre: 341, 439; kings of:
see
Charles II; Charles III

Navarton (an esquire): 400

Neisse, River: 106, 107

Nele, John: 283

Nesbit Moor, battle of (1402): 252

Neukirchen: 108

Neville, Alexander (d. 1392), archbishop of York (1374–88): 71, 72, 77, 82, 102

Neville, John (d. 1388), Lord Neville (1367): 30, 31

Neville, John (1382–1430), Lord Latimer (1395): 195

Neville, Ralph (d. 1425), Lord Neville (1388), earl of Westmorland (1397): 170, 171, 176, 186, 195, 197, 254, 264, 275, 282, 287, 293, 306, 321, 332, 334, 343, 357, 418, 429; failed creation as earl of Cumberland: 60, 61

Neville, Thomas (d. 1407), Lord Furnival (1383), treasurer (1404): 287, 429

Newbridge: 73

Newcastle upon Tyne: 80, 224, 275, 304, 321, 394

Newenham Priory: 265, 378

Newmarket: 377

Newstead Priory: 380, 381, 435

Nicholls, Benedict (d. 1433), bishop of Bangor (1408), bishop of St David’s (1418): 331

Nicopolis Crusade: 131, 135, 137, 407, 408

Nigarelis, David (d. 1312), physician: 322, 382, 383

Norbury John (d. 1414), esquire, treasurer (1399–1402): 94, 160, 171, 191, 200, 237, 256, 282, 324, 340, 356, 413

Norfolk, countess and duchess of:
see
Margaret; earl and duke of:
see
Mowbray

North Sea: 94

Northallerton: 224

Northampton: 72, 225, 283, 378, 381, 397, 423

Northampton, John, mayor of London: 55, 61

Northumberland, earl of:
see
Percy, Henry

Norton St Philip: 236, 237

Norway, king of:
see
Eric

Norwich: 285, 377; bishop of:
see
Tottington, Alexander

Notley Abbey: 74, 397

Nottingham: 35, 51, 69, 70, 80, 139, 266, 275, 284, 294, 295, 314, 315, 319, 320, 378, 409, 415, 426, 433, 435; earls of:
see
Mowbray

Nuneaton: 129, 158, 413

Oakham: 124

oaths of loyalty: 276

Oder, River: 106, 107

Offley: 249, 250

Okehampton: 259

Old Hall manuscript: 47

ordinances of 1386–7, 68, 141

Orléans, duchess of:
see
Visconti, Valentina; duke of:
see
Louis

Ormiston Castle: 264, 265

Ormond, earls of:
see
Butler

Ostrevant, count of: 131, 160

Oswestry: 152, 227

Otterburn, battle of (1388): 79, 80

Otto (1320–1398), duke of Brunswick (1351): 412

Ottoman Empire: 131

Ouse, River: 315, 320, 380

Oxford: 65, 73, 74, 80, 175, 207, 208, 249, 250, 382, 397; countesses of:
see
de Vere, Margaret; Philippa; earl of:
see
de Vere, Robert; University of: 236, 324, 335

paintings: 16, 107

Palaeologus:
see
Manuel II

papacy: 14, 161;
see also
popes; antipope

Paris: 21, 29, 46, 115, 160, 163, 168, 170, 210, 216, 231, 256, 317, 324, 341, 359, 412; Hôtel de Clisson: 160, 162, 166, 167; Hôtel de St Pol: 160, 317; rue Barbette: 317; University of: 46, 161, 356

parliamentary commissions: to reform the royal household (1385): 60, 61, 63; to supervise Richard’s rule (1386–7):
see
ordinances of 1386–7; to receive petitions and judge Henry (1398): 151, 167; to examine the royal accounts (‘war treasurers’, 1404): 280, 281; to examine royal grants since 1367 (1404): 287; to examine the royal accounts (1406): 309

parliaments (at Westminster unless otherwise stated): 1376, April (the Good Parliament): 30; 1383, October: 51, 52; 1384, April (Salisbury): 52; 1385, October: 59, 63, 366, 367; 1386, October (the Wonderful Parliament): 64, 189, 366, 367, 396; 1388, February (the Merciless Parliament): 76, 83, 102, 142, 150, 196; 1388, September (Cambridge): 80, 85, 398, 399; 1390, January: 85; 1391, November: 99, 100; 1394, January: 118; 1395, January: 126; 1397, January: 134; 1397, September (the Revenge Parliament): 139, 169, 196, 200, 201, 204; 1398, January (Shrewsbury): 147; 1399, September (assembly): 179, 181, 186; 1399, October: 192, 195, 218, 416; described as ‘the Merciful Parliament’: 204; 1400, October (summoned to York; did not meet): 225; 1401, January: 230, 232, 240; 1402, September: 253; 1404, January: 277, 286, 311; 1404, October (Coventry, the Unlearned Parliament): 286, 287, 309, 330; 1406, March (the Long Parliament): 306, 316, 369, 377, 431, 434;
1407, October (Gloucester): 314, 361, 434; 1410, January: 328; 1411: November: 303, 338; 1413: February (did not meet): 347

Passenham: 41

Pay, Henry (
fl.
1402–1414), shipmaster: 286

Peasants’ Revolt (1381): 1, 13, 37, 38, 48, 71, 208, 298

Pedro the Cruel (1334–1369), king of Castile and Léon (1349): 25, 27, 84

Pelham, Sir John (d. 1429), chamber knight, treasurer (1411–13): 172, 287, 341, 350, 429

Peloponnese: 110

Pembroke Castle: 210

Percy family: 174, 255, 264, 274, 280, 283, 284; manifesto (1403): 217, 218, 269, 275, 420, 422; rebellion of (1403): 261, 293, 356, 357, 378

Percy, Henry (1341–1408), Lord Percy (1368), earl of Northumberland (1377): 52, 71, 171—3, 176, 178, 186, 191, 194, 196, 197, 203, 217, 247, 253, 254, 261, 275, 276, 279, 284, 296, 310, 318, 333, 416, 417, 420; last stand of (1408): 318; role in the Yorkshire Rising (1405): 293, 300, 303, 304, 319; Tripartite Indenture (1405): 290, 291

Percy, Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ (1364–1403): 26, 33, 79, 88, 90, 99, 125, 172, 173, 176, 238, 240, 247, 252, 253, 255, 261, 271, 333, 375, 442; blamed in part by Henry for the fall of Conway: 241, 263

Percy, Henry (1393–1455), later earl of Northumberland (1416): 304

Percy, Sir Ralph (d. 1397): 26, 33, 80

Percy, Thomas (1343–1403), earl of Worcester (1397), steward of household (1401–2): 102, 141, 142, 148, 177, 201, 205, 210, 234, 247, 254, 259, 269, 272, 273, 275, 416, 442

Percy, Thomas (d. 1388): 26, 33, 80

Perigord: 242; count of: 242

Perrers, Alice: 22, 26, 30, 31, 34

Persay, Sir Robert: 294

Peterborough: 99, 117, 127, 372, 405, 411

Pevensey: 172

Peverel, Thomas (d. 1419), bishop of Worcester (1407): 331

Philip the Bold (1342–1404), duke of Burgundy (1363): 103, 134, 160, 170, 259, 283, 317, 415, 421

Philippa of Hainault (1314–1369), queen of England (1328): 24, 25, 40

Philippa (1355–1380), countess of March (1368): 31, 390

Philippa (1367–1411), countess of Oxford (1376), duchess of Ireland (1386): 56, 398

Philippa of Lancaster (1360–1415), queen of Portugal (1387): 26, 27, 41, 84, 121, 159, 162, 390

Philippa of Lancaster (1394–1430), queen of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (1406): 121, 305, 307, 309, 372, 431

physicians: 26, 94, 154, 162, 206, 302, 307, 308, 322, 325, 382, 383

Picardy: 172, 415

Pickering Castle: 172, 176

Pilleth: 251

Pisa: 325

plague: 25, 301

play about the Creation: 326

Pleshey: 138, 208, 259

Plumpton, Sir William (d. 1405): 294, 296

Plymouth: 62, 84, 129, 170, 277

Plympton: 129, 407

poetry: 127, 128;
see also
Chaucer; Gower; Hoccleve

Poitiers, battle of (1356): 22, 30, 34

Pol, Master: 206

Poland: 94, 105, 106, 111, 114

poll tax: 13

Polschken: 106

Pontefract Castle: 122, 127, 129, 155, 172, 175, 182, 203, 211, 216, 218, 224, 275, 276, 284, 285, 293, 295, 321, 379, 380, 381, 421, 435

pope:
see
Boniface IX; John XXIII;
see also
antipope Portogruaro: 109

Portugal: 159; king of: João I

Powderham: 286

Prague: 107, 108, 116, 404

presents:
see
gift-giving

Prittlewell, John: 208

privy council:
see
council

privy seal, keepers of:
see
Clifford, Richard; Langley, Thomas; Bubwith, Nicholas; Prophet, John

prophecy: 20, 164, 177, 192, 250, 276, 291, 294, 361, 430; Prophecy of the Six Kings: 21, 250, 290, 300, 389; Prophecy of the Oil of St Thomas: 195, 235

Prophet, John (d. 1416), Henry’s secretary (1402–5), keeper of the privy seal (1406–15): 324, 334, 341

prostitutes: 16, 206

Provisors, Statute of (1390): 85, 100

Prudhoe Castle: 303

Prussia: 89, 94, 104, 105, in, 127, 159, 402

Putzig: 94, 105

Pwll Melyn:
see
Usk, battle of

Queenborough: 55, 56, 74, 437

Querry, Thomas: 400

Rabe, Engelhard, marshal of the Teutonic Knights: 94, 96, 98, 105

Radcot Bridge: 73, 74, 142, 147, 149, 223, 266, 397, 399

Ragnit: 94

Rakyer, John: 331

Ramah: 112

Ramsay, Sir James Henry (1832–1925), baronet, historian: 4

Ravendale: 426

Ravenspur: 171, 177, 188, 415

Reading: 84, 400

Recoches, Louis, physician: 307, 382

Redesdale: 244

Reede, Henry: 82

Rehoboam: 50, 394

Reigate: 71, 169

Rempston, Sir Thomas (d. 1406), steward of the household (1399–1401): 94, 95, 160, 171, 234, 238, 256, 3:4, 402

Rennes, siege of (1356): 23, 171

Repingdon, Philip (c. 1345–1424), abbot of Leicester (1394–1404), bishop of Lincoln (1404–19): 236, 237, 239, 323, 324, 424 431

Repton: 315, 380

Revesby Abbey: 284

Revolt of the Earls (1400):
see
Epiphany Rising

Rhineland: 247; counts of:
see
Rupert; Louis

Rhodes: 110, 114, 404

Rhuddlan: 180, 227

Rhys, Antony and John: 247

Richard I (1157–1199), king of England (1189): 111, 360

Richard II, ‘Richard of Bordeaux’ (1367–1400), prince of Wales and Aquitaine (1376), king of England (1377–99): 2, 5: “, ia, 30, 60, 61, 65, 66, 75, 76, 394; abdication: 174, 183, 186, 191, 200, 368, 439; absolutism: 135, 136, 141, 150, 164, 168, 196, 200, 359, 364; adoption of Edward of York as his brother:
see
Edward of York; ancestry and inheritance: 20, 24, 31; arrival in England: 27; attempts to escape after capture: 181; attempt to rescue him in 1400:
see
Epiphany Rising; attitude to succession:
see
succession; birth: 19, 24, 364; capture in 1399, 179, 180; character and angry outbursts: 9, 34, 48, 49, 54, 57, 63, 76, 136, 137, 142, 149, 153, 158, 159, 164, 280, 283, 390; comparisons with Edward II: 50, 51, 67, 137, 175, 398; coronation: 35; councils:
see
councils, privy; death: 199, 210, 258, 269, 298, 318, 350, 420; deposition of: 19, 66, 67, 72, 74, 75, 183, 186, 189; education: 47, 48; entailment of the throne by (1388): 167, 366, 368, 369; execution, calls for his: 199; falsification of records of parliament: 190; finds oil of St Thomas: 195; foreign policy:
see
France, Ireland, Milan, Scotland; funeral of: 216, 219, 220, 322, 420; hopes of being Holy Roman Emperor: 137; illegitimacy, question of: 24, 187; in Ireland (1394–5, 1399): 120, 125, 126, 128, 168, 171, 175, 369; keeper of the realm (1373): 30; kingship: 12, 35, 36, 53, 56, 65, 117, 197, 220;
see also
absolutism; knighted: 33, 34; loss of his first wife: 121, 122; marriage to Isabella of France: 131, 133, 134, 229; murders the duke of Gloucester: 139, 143, 145, 146, 158, 201, 202, 211, 253, 358; during the Peasants’ Revolt: 14, 37, 38, 48, 136, 137; personal rule commences (1389): 83; plot to seize him in Carmarthen (1399): 177; rejects limitations on his authority: 100, 102; relationship with Henry: 7, 18, 22, 28, 32, 33, 37, 45, 52, 55, 63, 69, 74”6, 82, 83, 85, 89, 102, 104, 106, 117, 123”5, 129, 131 133, 137, 141, 145, 146, 149”52, 155, 158, 161”4, 166, 200, 218, 348, 352, 353, 358, 363, 366, 392, 403, 410, 413; relationship with John of Gaunt:
see
John; rumours of survival after 1400, 9, 248, 266, 281, 297, 319, 359, 420; supposed madness in 1397: 136; taxation policy: 53, 56, 61, 65, 83, 120, 134, 135, 152, 160; will (1399): 367, 369