Edward II: The Unconventional King (60 page)

31
.
Murimuth
, 45–6.

32
.
CCR 1323–7
, 578–9.

33
. Haines,
Edward
, 216 and 462, note 214; Burgtorf, ‘With my Life’, 40;
Scalacronica
, 72;
Croniques
, 61.

34
.
CPR 1324–7
, 213.

35
. Isabella’s letter is cited in Phillips, 491, and Blackley, ‘Bishop of Exeter’, 234. Weir,
Isabella
, 196, claims the queen’s ‘profound revulsion’ but cites no evidence.

36
.
CCR 1323–7
, 580–82.

37
.
CCR 1323–7
, 579–80.

38
. SAL MS 122, 40, 43.

39
. SAL MS 122, 45.

40
. SAL MS 122, 46–7.

41
.
Tyranny
, 186; Alison Marshall, ‘Thomas of Brotherton’, 81–6; SAL MS 122, 81.

42
. SAL MS 122, 48–9, 54.

43
.
CPR 1317–21
, 235;
CPR 1321–4
, 189.

44
.
Livere
, 353–5.

45
.
CPR 1324–7
, 238, 250, 283–4, 286;
CCR 1323–7
, 550–1;
CCW
, 575.

46
. For the Folvilles, see Ian Mortimer,
Time-Traveller’s Guide
, 240–2.

47
. Aston,
Early Oxford Colleges
, 237–8;
CChR
, 481–2, 485–6.

48
. Haines,
John Stratford
, 166.

49
. Haines,
Edward
, 443, note 218;
CCR 1323–7
, 540–1;
Foedera
, 618.

50
.
CCR 1323–7
, 556–7;
Foedera
, 625–6.

51
.
CPR 1324–7
, 215.

52
. SAL MS 122, 50, 65;
Notes and Queries
(September 1886), 258.

53
. SAL MS 122, 50, 58.

54
.
CCR 1323–7
, 545–7;
Foedera
, 619.

55
.
CCR 1323–7
, 535–7, 542, 552, 638–40, etc;
Foedera
, 616, 636, 642.

56
.
CCR 1323–7
, 543;
Foedera
, 619.

57
.
CCR 1323–7
, 547;
Foedera
, 619; SAL MS 122, 51.

58
. SAL MS 122, 50 (
q’nt le Roi sist enp’s son lit vn poi deuant la mynoet
).

59
. SAL MS 122, 21, 69, 78, 81.

60
.
Place
, 254.

61
. SAL MS 122, 51, 53, 56–8.

62
. SAL MS 122, 55.

63
. SAL MS 122, 53, 55.

64
.
CPR 1324–7
, 285–6.

65
. For example,
Trokelowe
, 110, and
Croniques
, 49.

66
.
CCR 1323–7
, 551.

67
.
Lanercost
, 250.

68
.
Foedera
, 625l;
CCR 1323–7
, 543, 650.

69
.
Brut
, 252–3.

70
.
CPR 1324–7
, 286.

71
.
CCR 1323–7
, 578–9.

72
.
Vita
, 140.

73
.
Perfect King
, 45.

74
. SAL MS 122, 49, 59, 60, 68, 75, etc.

75
. SAL MS 122, 49, 59, 60, 68, 75, etc.

76
.
CCR 1323–7
, 471–2, 557.

77
.
CCR 1323–7
, 569.

78
. SAL MS 122, 62, 75, 92–3.

79
. Lord, ‘Isabella at the Court’, 50.

80
.
CCR 1323–7
, 576–8.

81
. SAL MS 122, 62–4, 66, 70.

82
.
CPL
, 473.

83
. Haines,
Archbishop John Stratford
, 168.

84
.
CPR 1324–7
, 269;
CCR 1323–7
, 563–4; Chaplais,
English Medieval Diplomatic Practice
, Part 1, Vol. 2, 314–5.

85
.
AP
, 312;
Croniques
, 41;
CPL
, 478.

86
. SAL MS 122, 65:
iewer a pelot
, ‘playing at ball’.

87
. Haines,
John Stratford
, 167–8;
PROME
.

88
.
CPL
, 475, 477–8.

89
.
CPL
, 476, 479, 481–3.

90
.
CPL
, 482.

91
. SAL MS 122, 65–6.

92
. SAL MS 122, 66; Phillips, 496–8.

93
. Haines, ‘Bishops and Politics’, 605–6.

94
. Phillips, 498; Haines,
Edward
, 276;
CDS
, 160.

95
.
Perfect King
, 59; Weir,
Isabella
, 200–01.

96
.
Foedera
, 632–3, 637–8, 640–1.

97
.
Tyranny
, 182; Jonathan Sumption,
Trial by Battle
, 101.

98
. Sumption,
Trial by Battle
, 102; SAL MS 122, 70.

99
.
ODNB
; Sumption,
Trial by Battle
, 102.

100
. SAL MS 122, 66.

101
.
CPR 1324–7
, 281.

102
. SAL MS 122, 75, 77.

103
. SAL MS 122, 75, 77.

104
.
AP
, 312–3; SAL MS 122, 78–9.

105
.
AP
, 312.

106
.
CCR 1323–7
, 452, 533;
CPR 1324–7
, 206, 258.

107
. SAL MS 122, 80–81.

108
. SAL MS 122, 81.

109
.
Brut
, 234–5.

110
.
Flores
, 231; Haines,
Edward
, 173; Phillips, 500.

111
.
CFR 1319–27
, 404, 410;
CCR 1323–7
, 636, 642;
CPR 1324–7
, 296.

112
.
CCR 1323–7
, 556, 643.

113
.
CCR 1323–7
, 640–5 (p. 642, ‘malice’); SAL MS 122, 83 (
la Dorre
); Fryde,
Tyranny
, 184–5; Haines, Edward, 172.

114
. Fryde, ‘Deposits’, 348, 350.

15 Invasion, Abdication and Imprisonment

1
. Phillips, 501–02.

2
. Phillips, 504; Ormrod,
Edward III
, 42;
Perfect King
, 48.

3
. SAL MS 122, 87;
Foedera
, 643.

4
.
CCR 1327–30
, 189, 249.

5
.
CCR 1323–7
, 650–51.

6
.
Foedera
, 645–6; Phillips, 509–10.

7
. For the accusations of sodomy, see
Intrigue
, 47–50; for Orleton, Haines,
Edward
, 179, and Haines,
Church and Politics
, 165.

8
.
Perfect King
, 49.

9
.
Tyranny
, 188.

10
CFR 1319–27
, 418, 421. Edward’s chamber accounts call Hugh Huchon; the
Anonimalle
, 132, Hughelyn.

11
.
CPR 1324–7
, 328, 335;
CCR 1323–7
, 650–51.

12
.
CPR 1324–7
, 325–7.

13
. Bloom, ‘Simon de Swanland and King Edward II’, 2.

14
. SAL MS 122, 92.

15
.
CCW
, 582.

16
. Haines,
Edward
, 178.

17
. Phillips, 506.

18
. Buck,
Politics,
Finance
, 220–21; Haines,
John Stratford
, 173;
Croniques
, 52.

19
.
Croniques
, 56;
AP
, 321.

20
. Haines,
Edward
, 179; Phillips, 507.

21
. Phillips, 98.

22
. SAL MS 122, 88–90.

23
. SAL MS 122, 89.

24
.
CCR 1327–30
, 9.

25
.
CPR 1321–4
, 62–3, 78, 97, 358, 396;
CCR 1323–7
, 125.

26
.
CCR 1323–7
, 638;
CPR 1324–7
, 304.

27
.
CFR 1327–37
, 43;
CCR 1327–30
, 182.

28
.
Murimuth
, 257;
CCR 1330–3
, 77.

29
.
CCR 1323–7
, 517.

30
. TNA SC 8/32/1572.

31
.
CCR 1323–7
, 622.

32
. TNA SC 8/307/15309.

33
.
CFR 1319–27,
p. 421;
CPR 1324–7
, 336.

34
. Dryburgh, ‘Last Refuge of a Scoundrel?’,
RENP
, 119, 134–5, 139; Phillips, 510–12;
Anonimalle
, 130. Arundel’s whereabouts at this time are unclear.

35
.
Lanercost
, 253.

36
. SAL MS 122, 90;
Itinerary
, 290.

37
. Claire Sponsler, ‘The King’s Boyfriend’, 162, note 9.

38
.
Foedera
, 646;
CCR 1323–7
, 655.

39
. Ormrod,
Edward III
, 44, note 70, for Zouche; Edward’s generosity to Wateville, which included giving him gifts of forty marks twice and forty pounds, visiting him at his house in London and paying his expenses when he was ill, is recorded in SAL MS 122, 9, 50, 64–5, 75, 77, 89.

40
. SAL MS 122, 90.

41
. Winchester was born on 1 March 1261:
CFR 1272–1307
, 149, 152;
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 2, 1272–1307
, Nos 101, 389.

42
.
AP
, 317–18;
Brut
, 240; Haines,
Edward
, 181; Phillips, 513.

43
.
Gesta
, 87.

44
.
CFR 1319–27
, 422.

45
. Rees,
Caerphilly Castle,
pp. 109–121.

46
.
CFR 1319–27
, 430;
CFR 1327–37
, 12–13;
CPR 1324–7
, 341, 344;
CPR 1327–30
, 12, 14, 18, 37–9.

47
. SAL MS 122, 90; Phillips, 514, note 363.

48
. SAL MS 122, 90.

49
.
CPR 1327–30
, 37–9, has a list of the Caerphilly garrison, who included Edward’s chamber staff Wat Cowherd, Peter Plummer, Henry Hustret, Rodrigo de Medyne, John Edriche, John Pope and others.

50
.
CCR 1327–30
, 26.

51
.
Lanercost
, 253.

52
.
CPR 1324–7
, 335–6.

53
.
CPR 1324–7
, 336.

54
.
CFR 1329–27
, 422;
CPR 1324–7
, 337; Phillips, 514.

55
. Phillips, 515.

56
.
AP
, 319;
Murimuth
, 49;
Flores
, 234.

57
.
AP
, 319;
Anonimalle
, 130.

58
.
CCR 1323–7
, 655.

59
. Haines,
Edward
, 185.

60
.
Brut
, 240;
Anonimalle
, 130;
Croniques
, 56.

61
.
Tyranny
, 77, 191–3, claims that Reading was one of Despenser’s closest friends, his marshal and loyal knight; Doherty,
Death
, 106, says he was Despenser’s ‘principal henchman’. I have found no evidence to support this. Reading was not a knight but a royal sergeant-at-arms, as SAL MS 122 makes clear.

62
.
Murimuth
, 50. Michael Burtscher,
The Fitzalans
, 24.

63
.
ODNB
; Burtscher,
Fitzalans
, 24–5;
Lanercost
, 252.

64
.
Murimuth
, 50, wrongly gives Micheldever’s first name as Thomas, but it was certainly Robert: TNA SC 8/17/835;
CFR 1327–37
, 8;
CPR 1327–30
, 22.

65
. SAL MS 122, 9;
CPR 1324–7
, 206, 258, 283;
CFR 1319–27
; 101.

66
.
CPR 1324–7
, 339.

67
.
Brut
, 339–40;
Froissart
, 43–4; Haines,
Edward
, 185;
Traitor
, 241.

68
. Holmes, ‘Judgement’, 261–7, prints them in the French original, and see my translation at
http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.com/2009/04/charges–against–hugh–despenser–younger.html
.

69
. Haines,
Edward
, 185.

70
.
Brut
, 240;
Anonimalle
, 130;
AP
, 320;
Froissart
, 43–4;
Gesta
, 87;
Traitor
, 162; Phillips, 518; Sponsler, ‘The King’s Boyfriend’, 152ff; Danielle Westerhof, ‘Deconstructing Identities’, 92–4.

71
.
CCR 1330–3
,
175.

72
.
CPR 1324–7
, 339–40.

73
.
CCR 1323–7
, 624.

74
. Underhill,
Good Estate
, 39–40.

75
. I am grateful to Jules Frusher for bringing this point to my attention.

76
.
English Historical Documents 1189–1327
, Vol. iii, 288.

77
.
CPR 1324–7
, 337; Phillips, 518, note 384;
Flores
, 235.

78
.
Anonimalle
, 132.

79
.
CPL 1305–41
, 482.

80
. Haines,
Death of a King
, 32; Haines, ‘Stamford Council’, 145, points out that there is no evidence for the allegation.

81
. Doherty,
Death
, 108–9, 133, claims that Isabella ‘had murder in her heart’ regarding her husband and called for his execution at Wallingford, and that in her eyes he became a ‘non-person’. No evidence is cited in support of these unlikely statements.

82
. Haines, ‘Stamford Council’, 143, Phillips, 521.