The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (70 page)

Wake, Margaret (d. 1349), Countess of Kent (
c
. 1325, she being wife of Edmund of Woodstock): 147, 225, 229, 234, 285 (n. 32)

Wake, Thomas (1298–1349), Lord Wake of Liddel (1317): 158–160, 167–168, 171–172, 200, 211–212, 215, 220, 232–234, 288 (n. 21), 296 (n. 11)

Wales: 10–12, 44, 48, 66, 72–76, 89, 94, 103, 105–106, 114, 129, 131–132–133, 150, 154–155, 166, 174–175, 184, 203, 213, 234–235, 240, 259

Wales, border with England:
see
Marches of Wales

Wales, Justiciar of:
see
Mortimer, Roger (1256–1326); FitzAlan, Edmund; Mortimer, Roger (1287–1330)

Wales, Princes of (
see also
Llywelyn): 9, 76

Walkefare, Robert de: 238

Wallace, William (1272?–1305): 24, 28

Wallingford, Berkshire: 34, 128–129, 154–155, 160, 164, 311, 315

Waltham, Hertfordshire and Essex: 108

Walton, Suffolk: 151, 310

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex: 285 (n. 1)

Walwayn, John: 79

Wardrobe, Keeper of the:
see
Melton, William

Ware, Hertfordshire: 52

Warenne, John de (1231–1304), Earl of Surrey (1240): 12, 18

Warenne, John de (1286–1347), Earl of Surrey (1304): 18–19, 34–35, 39, 44, 46, 52, 102, 104, 110, 115, 137, 202, 223, 234, 288 (n. 21)

Wark, Northumberland: 29, 57

Warley, Ingelard de: 17

Warwick: 52, 113, 217, 314

Warwick, Earls of:
see
Beauchamp, Guy de; Beauchamp, Thomas de

Warwickshire: 107

Wasteneys, Edmund: 186

Waterford, Ireland: 88, 97, 309

Waterville, Robert de (d. 1330), Lord Waterville (1326): 79, 158

Waterville, Robert de, of Essex: 79, 150–151

Wear, River, Co. Durham: 180

Weardale campaign: 175, 177–184

Well, Richard de: 249

Welshpool Castle, Wales: 48–49, 114, 274 (n. 38)

Westhall: 234

Westminster: 22–26, 38–39, 43, 53, 66, 77, 100–101, 105, 109, 125–126, 164, 166–168, 191, 239, 263, 277 (n. 9), 304–306, 309, 311, 313–314

Westminster, chronicler of: 191, 194

Westminster Abbey: 22–24, 33, 37, 198, 229

Westmorland: 123

Wetheral Priory, Cumberland: 28

Wexford, Ireland: 97

Wicklow Mountains, Ireland: 42

Wight:
see
Isle of Wight

Wigmore, Herefordshire: 2, 8–10, 13, 14, 16, 21, 40, 44–45, 75, 77–80, 93–94, 102, 105, 107, 113, 116–121, 164, 207, 225–227, 275 (n. 11), 281 (n. 11), 297 (n. 20), 304–306, 308–309, 316, 319, 323

Wigmore Abbey: 9, 93, 117–121, 210

Wigmore, Abbot of:
see
Galeys, Philip de; Clayhanger, John de

William (d. 1337), Count of Hainault (1304): 141, 149, 200, 284 (n. 14)

William the Conqueror (1027–1087), King of England: 2, 151, 163

William the Welshman:
see
Edward II

Willington, Henry de (d. 1322): 125

Wilton, Wiltshire: 214

Wiltshire: 21, 107, 177, 234

Winchelsea, Sussex: 113

Winchelsey, Robert de (d. 1313), Archbishop of Canterbury (1293): 37, 44, 64

Winchester, Hampshire: 11, 213, 215, 229, 231–233, 316

Winchester, Bishop of:
see
Woodlock, Henry; Sandall, John; Stratford, John

Winchester, Earl of:
see
Despenser, Hugh (1261–1326)

Winchester, Statute of (1285): 289 (n. 29)

Windsor, Berkshire: 121, 125, 224, 314–316, 319–321

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: 314

Wishart, Robert (d. 1316), Bishop of Glasgow (1271): 25–26

Witney, Oxfordshire: 311

Wodehouse, Robert (d. 1345), Treasurer (1329): 227

Wogan, John (d. 1321), Justiciar of Ireland (1295–1313): 34, 43, 49–50, 82, 96

Wogan, Walter de: 279 (n. 4)

Woodlock, Henry (d. 1316), Bishop of Winchester (1305): 37

Woodstock, Oxfordshire: 223, 311, 315–317

Woodstock, Edmund of:
see
Edmund of Woodstock

Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire: 107, 309

Worcester: 114, 146, 198, 200, 209, 312, 316

Worcester, Bishop of:
see
Adam of Orleton

Worcestershire: 21, 176, 201

Wormsley, Herefordshire, Prior of: 130, 201

Wyard, John: 159, 201–202, 225, 234, 236, 239

Wychbold, Worcestershire: 322

Wyther, Thomas: 213, 218, 220

Wyvill, Robert (d. 1375), Keeper of the Privy Seal (1326–27), Bishop of Salisbury (1330): 203, 238

York: 44, 51, 64–65, 90, 123–126, 162, 175–178, 183–184, 200, 209, 211, 217, 275 (n. 11), 276 (n. 12), 306, 308, 311–313

York, Archbishop of:
see
Giffard, Walter; Melton, William de

York, Treasurer of: 10

Yorkshire: 21, 107, 123, 136, 180

Youghal, Ireland: 84, 306

Ystradfellte, Wales: 75, 306

Zeeland, Holland: 310

Zouche, William de la (1276–1352), Lord Zouche (1299): 79, 82, 104, 158, 231

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I HOPE READERS
will not begrudge me using this page to express gratitude to the following individuals. Firstly my wife, Sophie, for her patience and understanding, and my children Alexander and Elizabeth, despite their lack of both. Secondly my agent, James Gill, for deciding this book was worth writing, Will Sulkin, for agreeing with him, and Jörg Hensgen, for helping to bring the book to its final form. Thirdly Paul Dryburgh for sharing some of his research findings on Roger Mortimer, and for discussing various historical points, and Barbara Wright for her many valuable suggestions and corrections, especially with regard to the Wigmore inventories. Fourthly Brian and Jay Hammond for their advice, help and encouragement. Fifthly Zak Reddan and Mary Fawcett for putting up with the family on research trips to London, and for the consequent damage to their possessions and their home. And lastly my wife Sophie again, for continuing to smile at me, and for giving the ever-grinning face of adversity a good smack on the nose.

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(BL)

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Cottonian MSS Charters II 26/27 (letter from Roger Mortimer to Edward II, c. 1317–21)

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John Rylands Library, University of Manchester

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