The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (65 page)

– reaction to Bristol insurrection: 77, 79–80

– appointment of Roger as King’s Lieutenant in Ireland: 81–83

– interference in Roger’s government of Ireland: 84–85, 87

– relations with Lancaster 1318: 90–92

– support of Hugh Despenser and civil war of 1321: 99–110

– attack on Badlesmere: 111–113

– moves against Mortimers: 113–116

– confiscation of Roger’s possessions: 116–121

– imprisonment of members of Mortimer family: 121

– defeat of Lancaster: 123–125

– government with Despenser: 126–128

– reaction to Roger’s escape from Tower: 132–134

– management of Gascon politics: 136–138

– ratification of treaty with France: 141–142

– attempts to persuade Isabella to return to England: 142–144, 147, 284 (n. 23)

– reaction to Isabella’s desertion: 144–147

– reaction to Roger and Isabella’s invasion: 150–153

– flees from invaders: 153–157, 251

– abandoned by his household servants: 157

– surrender and imprisonment at Kenilworth: 159–160, 251

– deposition and abdication: 165–170, 196, 251

– removal from Kenilworth to Berkeley: 173–174, 187, 239, 251, 254

– rescue from Berkeley and recapture 1327: 176–177, 184

– conditions of imprisonment at Berkeley: 185, 188, 190

– supposed death in 1327: 185–195, 197–199, 212, 239, 242–264

– removal from Berkeley Castle in secret: 252, 256

– supposed burial in 1327: 186, 188, 197–199, 244–247, 250, 255, 263–264

– secretly in custody 1327–1330: 217, 219–220, 244–252, 254, 256, 258, 262–263

– custody made known to the Pope: 225

– possible attempt to free him 1329: 227

– Kent’s attempt to free him 1330: 229, 252

– travels on the continent 1330–38: 252–254, 256, 258–263

– appearance in Cologne as William le Galeys/William the Welshman: 260–263, 302 (n. 47), 303 (n. 51)

Edward III (1312–1377), Duke of Aquitaine (1325), King of England (1327): 3–4, 255

– birth, 1312: 53

– betrothal: 136, 141

– journey to France 1325: 138–139

– performs homage for Gascony: 141–143

– as custodian of realm: 157–158, 165–166

– proclamation as king: 168, 170

– knighted: 170

– crowned: 170–171

– role in Weardale campain: 177–184

– heard news of his father’s supposed death: 185, 197

– told of his father’s survival: 198, 292 (n. 11)

– dependence on Roger: 198–199

– claims the French throne: 204–205, 221

– visits Ludlow 1328: 207

– anger at being forced to cede Scotland: 209

– refuses to attend his sister’s wedding: 209

– distrustful of Henry of Lancaster: 209–212

– escapes Lancaster’s attempt to capture him: 213

– included in Leintwardine chantry beneficiaries: 216, 222

– accused of breaking coronation oath: 217

– threatened with excommunication: 217

– performs homage for Gascony: 221

– relationship with Roger in decline: 224, 226–227

– warns Kent not to travel in Spain: 225

– upholds death sentence on his uncle: 232

– grudges against Roger: 235

– plots with Montagu how to resume control of the realm: 227, 235–239

– turns around Berkeley Castle plot in his favour: 244, 250–251

– goes on ‘pilgrimage’ to France 1331: 263

– makes pilgrimage to Gloucester 1343: 253

– possibly in receipt of the Fieschi letter: 259–260

– crowned Vicar of the Holy Roman Empire 1338: 260

Edward (b. 1320?), heir to the earldom of Norfolk: 225, 294 (n. 22), 322–323

Eland, William, speculator of Nottingham Castle: 237–238

Eldecote, John de: 121

Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290), Queen of England (1272): 10–11

Eltham, Kent: 228, 315–316

Eltham, John of:
see
John of Eltham

Ely, Bishop of:
see
Hothum, John de

Enfield, John de: 186

Ernwood, Shropshire: 78–79, 306, 319

Erskine, William: 181

Essex: 150

Evesham, Worcestershire: 201

Evesham, Battle of (1265): 7–8, 65

Evesham, Walter de: 121, 164

Evreux, Louis d’:
see
Louis d’Evreux

Ewer, Robert le: 128

Ewyas, lordship of: 44

Exeter, Devon: 188, 261

Falkirk, Scotland: 58

famine: 67, 72–73, 76, 80, 96

Faughart, Ireland: 93, 95–96

Feast of the Swans: 24–25

Ferns, Bishop of:
see
Adam of Northampton

Ferrard, Ireland: 49

Ferre, Guy de: 17

Ferrers, John de (1271–1312), Lord Ferrers (1293): 53

Fiennes, de, family: 14, 121, 134, 271 (n. 4), 320–321

Fiennes, Joan de:
see
Wake, Joan de

Fiennes, John de: 133, 202

Fiennes, Margaret de, daughter of William:
see
Mortimer, Margaret

Fiennes, Robert de: 82, 133

Fiennes, William de (d. 1302): 11

Fiennes, William (fl. 1316): 82

Fieschi, de, family of Genoa: 255

Fieschi, Manuele de (d. 1348), papal notary; Bishop of Vercelli (1343): 251–263

Fieschi, Nicholinus de, Genoese envoy to England: 260, 263, 303 (n. 51)

FitzAlan, Edmund (1285–1326), Earl of Arundel (1302), Justiciar of Wales (1322–26): 34, 38–39, 44, 49–50, 56, 102, 104, 107, 115, 132, 160, 163, 173, 234, 251, 270 (n. 1)

FitzAlan, Richard (1313?–1376), heir to earldom of Arundel;
restored
Earl (1331): 235, 249

FitElys, Robert: 66

FitzJohn, Thomas (d. 1328), Earl of Kildare (1316), Justiciar of Ireland (1327–28): 96, 98, 175

FitzJohn, William (d. 1326), Archbishop of Cashel (1317): 89

FitzReginald, John (d. 1310), Lord FitzReginald: 34

FitzThomas, John (d.1316), Earl of Kildare (1316): 81

FitzThomas, John (the above?): 45, 274 (n. 34)

FitzThomas, Richard (1319–1331), heir to the earldom of Kildare: 228

FitzWarin, Fulk (d. 1336), Lord FitzWarin (1315): 231

Flanders/Flemish, Belgium: 128, 248, 260

Foix, Count of: 53

‘Folebrook’: 234

Forcet, Francisco: 260–261, 302 (n. 49)

Forfar Castle, Scotland: 54

Forteviot, Scotland: 26

Forth, River, Scotland: 59, 63

France: 2, 57, 121, 133–149, 158, 161, 196, 200, 204, 208–209, 220–224, 226, 263, 267, 283 (n. 10), 310

France, King of:
see
Philip IV, Charles IV, Philip VI, Louis IX

France, Queen of: 140, 148

Francis, William: 57

Franciscans (Greyfriars, Minoresses): 24, 242, 323

Frankton, Stephen de (fl 1282): 11

Fraser, Simon (d. 1306): 27–28

French Chronicle of London
: 189, 235

Friars:
see
Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites

Friskeney, John de: 126

Froissart, Jean (
c
. 1333–
c
.1404), chronicler: 5, 222

Fryde, Natalie, historian: 253–254

furnishings, soft (curtains, bed–hangings, sheets etc): 117–120, 207–208

Galeys, John: 233, 298 (n.40)

Galeys, Philip de, Abbot of Wigmore (1302–1318): 93, 277 (n. 26)

Galeys, William le:
see
Edward II

Galtres Forest, Yorkshire: 201

Garton, Thomas de, Controller of the Kings Wardrobe: 211

Gascony, France (see also Aquitaine, Duchy of): 11, 21, 34, 43, 47, 53, 57, 105, 133–134, 136–143, 161, 169, 221, 227–228, 233, 240, 305

Gaveston, Arnaud de (d. 1302): 18

Gaveston, Joan (1312–1325), daughter of Piers Gaveston: 51

Gaveston, Margaret (d. 1342), Countess of Cornwall (1309): 32, 40, 51

Gaveston, Piers (d. 1312), Earl of Cornwall (1307): 3–5, 54, 65, 82, 95, 99, 101–102, 109, 135, 172, 273 (n. 23–26)

– as a companion to Edward before 1307: 15, 17–20, 23–24, 28–31

– created Earl of Cornwall: 32

– antagonism of the earls: 33–40, 43–44, 160

– as Regent of England: 34–35, 273 (n. 8, 9)

– at coronation of Edward II: 37–38

– cause of crisis in 1308: 38–39

– as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: 40–42, 274 (n. 28)

– returns to England: 43

– is exiled again, 1309: 44

– in Scotland with Edward: 46

– impeachment, 1311: 46–47

– capture and death, 1312: 50–53, 137

– burial, 1314: 65

Gayte, Richard le: 201

Geneville, de, family: 121, 206, 324

Geneville, Beatrice de (b. 1287), sister of Joan: 13, 172, 270 (n. 7)

Geneville, Geoffrey de (
c
. 1226–1314), Lord Geneville (1254), grandfather of Joan: 13–14, 16, 19, 34, 40–42, 271 (n. 12)

Geneville, Jean de, elder brother of Geoffrey:
see
Joinville, Jean de

Geneville, Joan de (d. 1323), wife of Peter (mother of Joan): 13, 19, 133, 206

Geneville, Joan de:
see
Mortimer, Joan

Geneville, Maud de (d. 1304) Lady Geneville (grandmother of Joan): 13, 46, 270 (n. 7)

Geneville, Maud de (b. 1291), sister of Joan: 13, 172

Geneville, Peter de (d. 1292), son of Lord Geneville (father of Joan): 13, 206

Genoa, Italy: 134, 255–256, 259–260, 302 (n. 43), 303 (n. 51)

Genté, France: 320

Geoffrey of Paris, chronicler: 36

Germain, Alexandre, archivist: 251–252

Germany: 57, 134, 169, 252, 260

Giffard, John (
c
. 1232–1299), Lord Giffard of Brimpsfield (1248): 10

Giffard, John (1287–1322), Lord Giffard of Brimpsfield (1299): 75–76, 99–100, 104–105, 126

Giffard, Walter (d. 1279), Archbishop of York (1266): 10

gift-giving (excluding severed heads,
for which see
heads, presentation of): 10, 15, 30, 38, 42, 155, 207, 209, 221, 224–226

Gisors, John de, alderman and Mayor of London: 130, 134, 282 (n. 16)

Glamorgan, Wales: 73–76, 87–88, 99, 105–106, 157, 176, 251, 258

Glamorgan, Sheriff of: 74

Glanville, Hugh de: 186, 198

Glasbury, Wales: 234

Glasgow, Bishop of:
see
Wishard, Robert

Glendalough, Ireland: 42

Gloucester: 77, 104–105, 110, 114, 126, 154, 156, 185–186, 188, 198, 213, 216, 227, 235–236, 245–247, 250, 252–253, 263, 311, 314–315, 317, 323

Gloucester, Abbot of St Peters:
see
Thoky,: 185, 245

Gloucester, Earls of:
see
Clare, Gilbert de (1243–1295); Clare, Gilbert de (1291–1314); Monthermer, Ralph de

Gloucester, Earldom of: 73, 90, 95, 97, 99, 101–102

Gloucestershire: 21, 107, 234

Glover, Arnold le: 281 (n. 6)

‘Glynsely’, Ireland: 279 (n. 32), 307

Gorges, Matthew de: 106

Gorges, Ralph de (d. 1323), Lord Gorges (appointed Justiciar of Ireland but never arrived): 106–107, 113, 281 (n. 11)