Queens Consort (79 page)

Anne of Bohemia (wife of Richard II): marriage to Richard,
274—5
,
308
; life in London,
277—8
; clothing and jewellery,
279
; and Chaucer,
279
,
280
; introduces Bohemian craftsmanship to manuscript illustration,
280
; religious reading,
281
,
282
; intimacy with Richard,
282
,
283
,
285
,
288—9
; and St Anne’s feast day celebration,
282
; and ‘Merciless Parliament’,
286
,
287
; and Londoners,
287—8
,
289
; intercessions,
288
,
293
,
310
; travels with husband,
289
; death and funeral,
289
; epitaph,
290
; in Wilton Diptych,
310

Anor, daughter of William X’s mistress,
96

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury,
43
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
49—50
,
55
,
56
,
75

Antioch,
104
,
105
,
106
,
191

Antwerp,
259

Aquitaine, Duchy of,
95—6
,
97
,
109
,
148
,
269

Aragon,
121

Arbrissel, Robert d’,
113

Archibald of Bourbon,
103

Ardres,
294

Arevalo, Rodrigo de,
193

Armagnac, Bernard, Count of,
313
,
323

Armagnacs,
323

Arnulf,
36

Arques, siege of fortress of,
28

Arques, William of,
28

Arthur, son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Lucy,
378

Arthur, son of Henry VII and Elizabeth,
404
,
413
,
414—5
,
417

Arthur of Brittany,
119
,
120
,
123
,
127
,
136
143
,
144
,
175

Artois, Blanche of,
218

Artur of Brittany,
308
,
312
,
315—6

Arundel, Archbishop,
281
,
282

Arundel, Countess of,
180

Arundel, Pynham priory,
64—5

Arundel, Richard FitzAlan, Earl of,
286
,
289
,
296
,
297

Arundel, Thomas, Earl of,
311
,
399

Arundel Castle,
66
,
78
,
79
,
85

Asser,
26

Aston, Hertfordshire,
66

Atholl, Earl of,
208

Aubigne, William d’,
66
,
78
,
79
,
247—8

Aubigny, Regnaut d’,
248

Audley Lord,
349

Audrehem, Arnaud d’,
248

Auranchin, Hugh d’,
31—2

Auvergne,
96

Aylesbury,
156

Bache, Anthony,
260

Bacon, Francis,
408

Badlesmere, Lady,
228

Badlesmere, Lord Bartholomew of,
227
,
228

Baker, Geoffrey le,
241

‘Bal des Sauvages’ (1393),
292

Baldock,
236

Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury,
143

Baldwin, heir to the Earl of Devon,
170

Baldwin, Matilda of Flanders’ brother,
19

Baldwin, son of Stephen and Matilda,
72
,
73—4

Baldwin ‘Iron Arm’, Count of Flanders,
23

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders,
23
,
25

Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders,
17
,
19
,
20
,
36

Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders,
36

Baldwin VII, Count of Flanders,
61

‘Ballad of Fair Rosamund, The’,
112

Balliol, Alexander,
170

Balliol, Edward,
257

Balliol, John,
205
,
257

Bamburgh Castle,
257
,
366
,
367

Bannockburn, battle of (1314),
226
,
283

Bar-le-Duc,
337

Bardi (bankers),
260

Barfleur,
60
,
110
,
117

Barking Abbey,
47
,
333

Barnard Castle,
390

Barnet, battle of (1471),
373

Bastenthwaite, Thomas de,
260

Bath,
81
,
166
,
202
,
373
; abbey,
198

Bath, Adelard of,
57

Bath, Reginald of,
186

Baudri of Dol, Bishop,
56
63

Bayeux,
29
; Tapestry,
27
,
31

Bayeux, Odo of,
38—9

Baynard’s Castle,
389

Bayonne,
96
,
113

Beatrice, Duchess of Brittany (daughter of Henry III and Eleanor),
169
,
177
,
180
,
181
,
185
,
186
,
201

Beatrice of Provence,
165
,
168
,
169
,
170
,
176
,
182—3
,
187

Beauchamp, Richard,
390—1

Beauchamp Pageant
,
390—1

Beaufort, Henry, bishop of Winchester,
318
,
329

Beaufort, Joan,
382

Beaufort, Lady Margaret,
333—4
,
348
,
393
,
394
,
395
,
401
,
406
,
411
,
412
,
414
,
415

Beaufort-en-Vallée castle,
132
,
133
,
134
,
148

Beaugency,
107

Beaulieu Abbey,
150
,
185
,
289
,
374

Beaumont, Henry de,
208
,
215
,
233

Beaumont, Roger of,
31—2

Beaumont, Viscount,
341

Béarn, Gaston de,
173
,
175
,
190

Beauvais,
233

Becket, Thomas à,
114
,
139
,
301

Bede, the Venerable,
26

Bedford,
154
,
244

Bedford, Duke of,
365
,
416

Bedford, Enguerrand de Coucy, Earl of,
269

Bedford, Jacquetta, Duchess of,
319
,
350
,
353
,
356—7
,
358
,
370
,
372
,
377

Bedford, Jasper, Duke of (son of Owen Tudor and Catherine de Valois, formerly Earl of Pembroke),
332
,
333
,
334
,
348
,
352
,
364
,
373
,
393

Bedford, John, Duke of (son of Henry IV),
313
,
315
,
318
,
324
,
326
,
327
,
328
,
330
,
332
,
356

Bedford Hours
,
325
,
328

Bel, Jean le,
262

Bel, Robert le,
193

Benedict XIII, Pope,
308

‘Beowulf’,
22
,
418—21
,
423
,
425

Beraza, Mañuel Sagatibelza,
124

Berengaria, daughter of Edward I and Eleanor,
194

Berengaria of Castile,
175—6

Berengaria of Navarre (later Queen of England): betrothed to Richard I,
120
,
121
; ancestry,
121
; journey with Eleanor of Aquitaine,
121—2
,
123
,
124
; early life,
122
; language spoken,
122
; appearance,
123
,
124
; marries Richard,
125
,
141
; in Holy Land,
125—6
; returns to Europe,
126
,
127
; possible rift in marriage,
129—30
; reconciliation with Richard,
131
,
132
; in Poitou,
132
; childless,
133
; and death of Richard,
133—4
; and Adam de Perseigne,
135
; spends rest of life as Lady of Le Mans,
137—40
,
141
; financial problems,
138—40
; in England,
139
; dower arrangements,
148—9
; defects to Philip Augustus,
149
; death,
140

Bergues,
263

Berkeley,
64
,
300
; Castle,
241—2
,
247

Berkeley, Sir William,
395

Berkhamsted,
148
,
151
,
156
,
245
,
248
,
271
; Castle,
210
,
211
,
215
,
314

Berkshire,
298

Bertha, wife of Aethelred,
26

Berwick-upon-Tweed,
155
,
205
,
214
,
257
,
351
,
354
,
366

Bethune, Richard de,
239—40

Bible, translations of,
281—2

Bigod, Hugh,
71
,
83

Biset, Margaret,
168

Black Death,
267

Blackheath,
275
,
325
,
342
,
345

Blacklow Hill,
216

Blackman, John,
340

Blanca of Navarre,
121
,
134
,
135
,
143

Blanchardine and Eglantine
,
412

Blanche, daughter of Edward III and Philippa,
254
,
257
,
267

Blanche of Brittany,
308
,
312
,
313

Blanche of Castile,
140
,
155
,
158
,
165—6
,
170
,
175—6
,
187
,
208
,
424

Blois, Eustace of,
110
,
111

Blois, Stephen, Count of,
68

Blois, Theobald of,
109

Blondel,
130—1

Blore’s Heath, battle of (1459),
349

Bohan, Main, Viscount,
312

Bohemian craftsmanship in manuscript illustration,
280

Bohun, Mary de,
298
,
307
,
314

Bohun family,
394

Boleyn, Anne,
66
,
358

Bolozerskaya, Marina,
277

Bona of Bohemia,
274

Boniface VIII, Pope,
204

Boniface IX, Pope,
308

Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury,
168
,
170
,
172
,
174
187
,
192

Bonneville-sur-Tocque,
148
,
149

Book of the Duchess
,
295

Book of the Knight of the Tower, The
,
27

books,
197
,
198
,
253
; first printed,
412
;
see also
literature

Booth, Laurence, bishop of Durham,
348
,
354

Bordeaux,
96
,
108
,
110
,
137
,
145
,
148
,
169
,
176
,
267
,
344
,
345
; palace of Ombrière,
97
; Saint-André cathedral,
97

Bordeaux, Richard of,
269

Born, Bertran de,
121

Boroughbridge, battle of (1622),
229

Bosworth Field, battle of (1485),
402
,
404
,
418

Bothwell,
205

Boulogne,
69
,
70
,
77
,
84
,
88
,
183
,
233
; St Bertin abbey,
89

Boulogne, Eustace of,
20
,
69
,
75
,
84
,
87
,
88—9
,
90
,
91
,
108

Boulogne, Mary, Countess of,
69

Boulogne, Osto of,
75

Boulogne, Pharamus of,
77

Boulogne, William of (Stephen and Matilda’s son),
90

Bourbon, Duke of,
315

Bourbon, Jacques de,
248

Bourbon., Duchesse de,
253

Bourchier, Lady Anne,
360
,
361

Bourchier, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury,
389
,
391

Bourdigne’s Chronicle
,
375

Bourges,
97
,
101
; archbishopric of,
98
,
99

Bourgueil, Baudri de,
53

Boutier, Paulin,
138

Bouvines, battle of (1214),
153

Boyars, John,
327

Brabant, Duchess of,
274

Brabant, Duke of,
78

Brabant, Margaret of,
263

Brabant, Marie of,
204

Brandon, William,
395

Bray, Richard,
394

Brecon,
394

Brecon, Charter of (1402),
331
,
332