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5. The Aesthete – Henry III

1
.   F. W. Maitland,
The Constitutional History of England
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1908), p. 70.

2
.   
Histoire de Guillaume le Maréschal
, ii, lines 1891–1901.

3
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, ii, pp. 102–3.

4
.   M. Powicke,
The Thirteenth Century, 1216–1307
(Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1963), p. 19.

5
.   
Chronica Rogeri de Wendover
, iv, p. 263.

6
.   
Chronica Majora
, iii, p. 272.

7
.   D. A. Carpenter, ‘King, Magnates and Society: The Personal Rule of Henry III', in
The Reign of Henry III
(Hambledon Press: London and Rio Grande, 1996), pp. 75–106.

8
.   
Chronica Majora
, ii, p. 334.

9
.   P. Binski,
Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets
(Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1995), p. 45.

10
.   D. A. Carpenter, ‘Matthew Paris and Henry III's Speech at the Exchequer in October 1256', in
The Reign of Henry III
, pp. 137–50.

11
.   
Chronica Majora
, iv, pp. 181–4.

12
.   N. Vincent, ‘Isabella of Angoulême: John's Jezebel', in
King John: New Interpretations
, p. 210.

13
.   
Chronica Majora
, iv, pp. 209–12.

14
.   Henry III: letter to Emperor Frederick II, September 1242,
Close Rolls
, 1237–1242, pp. 530–2.

15
.   D. A. Carpenter, ‘What Happened in 1258?', in
The Reign of Henry III
, p. 183.

16
.   
Chronica Majora
, v, p. 601.

17
.   
Annals of Barton
, p. 399.

18
.   
Chronica Majora
, v, p. 457.

19
.   Carpenter, ‘What Happened in 1258?', p. 183.

20
.   
Annals of Tewkesbury
in
Annales Monastici
, ed. H. R. Luard, Rolls Series, 5 vols (London, 1864–9), i, pp. 163–4.

21
.   
Chronica Majora
, v, p. 696.

22
.   
Annals of Barton
, p. 429.

23
.   
Annals of Tewkesbury
, i, p. 164.

24
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, ii, p. 103.

25
.   
Chronica Majora
, v, p. 706.

26
.   
The Chronicle of William de Rishanger of the Barons' War
, ed. J. Halliwell (Camden Society: London, 1840), pp. 32–34.

27
.   
Chronica de Mailros
, ed. J. Stevenson (Bannatyne Club:
Edinburgh, 1835), p. 200.

28
.   
Narratio de Bellis
, p. 6.

29
.   
Annals of Osney
, in
Annales Monastici
, iv, p. 160.

30
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, iv, p. 160.

31
.   J. S. Hamilton,
The Plantagenets
,
History of a Dynasty
(Continuum: London and New York, 2010), p. 22.

32
.   Powicke,
The Thirteenth Century
, p. 19.

6. The Hammer – Edward I

1
.   Powicke,
The Thirteenth Century
, p. 228.

2
.   
The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft
, ed. T. Wright, 2 vols (London, 1868), ii, p. 354.

3
.   H. G. Robinson and G. Sayes, ‘The Scottish Parliaments of Edward I',
Scottish Historical Review
, 25, pp. 311–16.

4
.   T. F. Tout,
Edward I
(London, 1896), p. 88.

5
.   Maitland,
Constitutional History
, p. 19.

6
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, ii, p. 104.

7
.   
Nicolai Triveti Annales
, ed. T. Hogg (London, 1845), p. 282.

8
.   M. Prestwich,
Edward I
(London, 1988), p. 123.

9
.   
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
, ed. H. Rothwell (London, 1957), p. 216.

10
.   J. E. Morris,
The Welsh Wars of Edward I
(Oxford, 1901), pp. 110–48.

11
.   
Langtoft
, ii, p. 169.

12
.   
Langtoft
, ii, p. 177.

13
.   M. Prestwich,
Plantagenet England 1225–1361
(Oxford, 2005), p. 163.

14
.   Maitland,
Constitutional History
, p. 69.

15
.   ‘Peter Langtoft's Chronicle', trans. Robert Mannyng, in
The Works of Thomas Hearne
(London, 1810), iv, p. 252.

16
.   
Langtoft
, ii, p. 199.

17
.   
Langtoft
, ii, p. 316.

18
.   Chaplais, ‘Some Private Letters of Edward I',
English Historical Review
, 77 (1962), p. 85.

19
.   
Langtoft
, ii, p. 289.

20
.   
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
, pp. 289–90.

21
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, ii, p. 141.

22
.   Prestwich,
Edward I
, p. 257.

23
.   
Langtoft
, ii, pp. 266–7.

24
.   
Chronicon de Lanercost 1272–1346
, ed. Sir H. Maxwell (Glasgow, 1913), p. 190.

25
   Powicke,
The Thirteenth Century
, p. 229.

26
.   G. W. S. Barrow,
Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland
(London, 1965), pp. 181–2.

27
.   
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
, pp. 382–3.

28
.   
Langtoft
, ii, p. 326.

29
.   Prestwich,
Edward I
, p. 156.

30
.   T. F. Tout,
The Place of Edward II in History
(Manchester, 1936), pp. 33–4.

7. The Changeling – Edward II

1
.   T. F. Tout, ‘The Captivity and Death of Edward of Caernarvon', in
Collected Papers of Thomas Frederick Tout
(Manchester, 1934), iii, p. 146.

2
.   Sir Thomas Gray,
Scalachronica
, trans. Sir H. Maxwell (Glasgow, 1907), p. 69.

3
.   
Chronicon de Lanercost
, pp. 247–8.

4
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, ii, p. 328.

5
.   Tout,
The Place of Edward II
, p. 11.

6
.   R. M. Haines,
King Edward II
(Montreal and Kingston, 2003), p. x.

7
.   
Vita Secundi, the life of Edward the Second
, ed. W. R. Childs (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 2005).

8
.   
Annales Paulini
, in
Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II
, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols (London, 1882), i, p. 262.

9
.   
Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis
, 9 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1864–6), vii, pp. 299–301.

10
.   H. Johnstone, ‘The Eccentricities of Edward II',
English Historical Review
, 48 (1933), p. 265.

11
.   Prestwich,
Plantagenet England
, p. 181.

12
.   Tout,
Place of Edward II
, p. 156.

13
.   Tout,
Place of Edward II
, pp. 14–17.

14
.   
Vita
, p. 16.

15
.   
Vita
, p. 48.

16
.   
Vita
, p. 62.

17
.   Hamilton,
The Plantagenets
, p. 119.

18
.   J. J. Norwich,
Shakespeare's Kings and Queens
(London, 1999), p. 16.

19
.   Tout,
Place of Edward II
, p. 17.

20
.   
Vita
, p. 148.

21
.   
Vita
, p. 176.

22
.   P. Doherty,
Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
(London, 2003), p. 66.

23
.   
Vita
, pp. 164, 166.

24
.   
Vita
, pp. 194, 196.

25
.   Tout,
Place of Edward II
, p. 135.

26
.   
Vita
, p. 194.

27
.   
Vita
, p. 230.

28
.   
Vita
, p. 230.

29
.   Tout,
Place of Edward II
, p. 143.

30
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart: Chroniques
, ed. J. Kervyn de Lettenhove, 28 vols (Brussels, 1867–77), ii, p. 88.

31
.   Robert of Reading,
Flores Historiarum
, 3 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1890), iii, p. 229.

32
.   Doherty,
Isabella
, p. 101.

33
.   A. Weir,
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery and Murder in Medieval Books
(New York, 2006), p. 14.

34
.   
Vita
, p. 242.

35
.   
Vita
, p. 242.

36
.   
Vita
, pp. 244–6.

37
.   
Annales Paulini
, i, p. 317.

38
.   R. Fabyan,
New Chronicles of England and France
, ed. H. Ellis (London, 1811), p. 430.

39
.   Doherty,
Isabella
, pp. 115–25.

40
.   
Chronicon Galfredi le Baker de Swynebroke
, ed. E. M. Thompson (Oxford, 1889), p. 33.

41
.   Haines,
King Edward II
, pp. 221–2.

42
.   Tout,
Edward I
, p. 225.

43
.   Hamilton,
The Plantagenets
, p. 133.

8. The Paladin – Edward III

1
.   
The Brut or The Chronicles of England
, ed. F. W. D. Brie, 2 vols (London, 1908), ii, p. 333.

2
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart
, v, pp. 260–1.

3
.   Stubbs,
Select Charters
, ii, p. 394.

4
.   W. M. Ormrod,
Edward III
(London and Newhaven, 2011), p. 577.

5
.   
Scalacronica: The Reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III as Recorded by Sir Thomas Gray
, trans. Sir H. Maxwell (Glasgow, 1907), p. 85.

6
.   
Scalacronica
, p. 86

7
.   
Galfridus le Baker de Swynebroke
, p. 46.

8
.   Haines,
Edward II
, p. 347.

9
.   
The Brut
, quoted by C. J. Rogers, in
The Wars of Edward III, Sources and Interpretations
(Woodbridge, 1999), p. 38.

10
.   
Rotuli Parliamentarum
, quoted by Rogers, in
The Wars of Edward III
, pp. 83–4.

11
.   R. Horrox,
The Black Death
(Manchester, 1994), p. 147.

12
.   M. McKisack,
The Fourteenth Century 1307–1399
(Oxford, 1959).

13
.   
The St Albans Chronicle: The ‘Chronica Majora' of Thomas Walsingham
, ed. J. Taylor, W. R. Childs and I. Watkiss (Oxford, 2003), i, p. 43.

14
.   W. M. Ormrod, ‘Who was Alice Perrers?',
Chaucer Review
, 40 (2006), pp. 219–29.

15
.   
St Albans Chronicle
, i, p. 57.

16
.   
St Albans Chronicle
, i, p. 11.

17
.   
St Albans Chronicle
, i, p. 102.

18
.   Ormrod,
Edward III
, p. 6.

9. The Absolutist – Richard II

1
.   Maitland,
Constitutional History
, pp. 197–9.

2
.   
St Albans Chronicle
, i, p. 137.

3
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart
, ix, p. 386.

4
.   
St Albans Chronicle
, i, p. 441.

5
.   McKisack,
The Fourteenth Century
, p. 420.

6
.   A. Steel,
Richard II
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1941), pp. 41–2, 203–4.

7
.   N. Saul,
Richard II
(Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1997), p. 465.

8
.   J. Harvey,
The Plantagenets
(London, 1948), p. 96.

9
.   A. Strickland,
The Lives of the Queens of England
, 12 vols (London, 1840–8), ii, p. 430.

10
.   Strickland,
Lives of the Queens of England
, ii, p. 430.

11
.   
Knighton's Chronicle
, ed. and trans. G. H. Martin (Oxford, 1995), p. 360.

12
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart
, x, p. 235.

13
.   Saul,
Richard II
, p. 123.

14
.   
Knighton's Chronicle
, p. 531.

15
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart
, xvi, p. 5.

16
.   Strickland,
Lives of the Queens of England
, ii, p. 430.

17
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart
, xvi, pp. 2–5.

18
.   
Oeuvres de Froissart
, xvi, p. 136.

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