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89
Ibn al-Fur
t, xi–xii, 156.
90
Prestwich,
Edward I
, 75–6; Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 29; Tyerman,
England and the Crusades
, 125; Ibn al-Fur
t, 157–9.
91
Ibid., 159; ‘Gestes des Chiprois’, 779; Guisborough, 208–10.
92
Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 29–30.
93
Foedera
, I, i, 495; Guisborough, 209–10.
94
‘L’Estoire de Eracles Empereur’, 462; J. H. Pryor,
Commerce, Shipping and Naval Warfare in the Medieval Mediterranean
(London, 1987), 378–83; Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 29–30.

CHAPTER 4: THE RETURN OF THE KING

1
Howell,
Eleanor of Provence
, 252–3.
2
Ibid.; D. A. Carpenter, ‘The Burial of King Henry III, the Regalia and Royal Ideology’,
Reign of Henry III
, 429;
AM
, iv, 252.
3
Prestwich,
Edward I
, 74, but it took two months for messages to travel between England and Sicily.
Cron. Maior
., 158; Trivet, 284.
4
R. Bartlett,
England under the Norman and Angevin Kings
(Oxford, 2000), 123–7, provides an excellent short summary.
5
Foedera
, I, ii, 497;
HBC
, 30–1.
6
Cron. Maior
., 158.
7
Wait, ‘The Household and Resources of the Lord Edward’, 136–53.
8
DNB
, xlvi, 710;
Cron. Maior
., 158. The other conciliar casualty was Philip Basset. Powicke,
Henry III
, 532, 583, 586.
9
AM
, iv, 239–40.
10
Maddicott,
Montfort
, 370–1; R. Studd, ‘The Marriage of Henry of Almain and Constance of Béarn’,
TCE
, iii (1991), 176–7; Powicke,
Henry III
, 606–12.
11
L. F. Salzman,
Edward I
(London, 1968), 34–5 T. F. Tout,
Edward the First
(London, 1893), 86, Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 30–1; R. Huscroft, ‘Robert Burnell and the Government of England’,
TCE
, viii (2001),
66
.
12
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 280.
13
Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 31; Maddicott,
Montfort
, 188; M. Bloch,
Feudal Society
(2nd edn, 1962), 145–7.
14
Carpenter,
Struggle
, 346. The assertion that Louis afterwards said to his barons, ‘He is my man now, and he was not before’ was not made until half a century later, by which time it looks like mere wish-fulfilment on the part of the French.
Jean de Joinville, Histoire de St Louis
, ed. N. de Wailly (Paris, 1874), 65.
15
EHD
, iii, 376–9.
16
Prestwich,
Edward I
, 314.
17
Itinerary
, i, 16–17; Trabut-Cussac,
L’Administration
, 42; M. W. Labarge,
Gascony, England’s First Colony, 1204–1453
(London, 1980), 43, citing
Receuil d’actes relatifs à l’administration des Rois d’Angleterre en Guyenne au XIIIe siècle: Recogniciones feodorum in Aquitania
, ed. C. Bémont (Paris, 1914), 52 (no. 174); S. Raban,
A Second Domesday? The Hundred Rolls of 1279–80
(Oxford, 2004), 28–33.
18
Trabut-Cussac,
L’Administration
, 42–4; J. B. Smith, ‘Adversaries of Edward I: Gaston de Béarn and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’,
Recognitions:
essays presented to Edmund Fryde
, ed. C. Richmond and I. M. W. Harvey (Aberystwyth, 1996), 68–70.
19
Raban,
Second Domesday
, 30–2; Trabut-Cussac,
L’Administration
, 46–7.
20
Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 31;
Cron. Maior
, 170.
21
Itinerary
, i, 31;
Political Songs
, 128.
22
AM
, iv, 259–60; NA SC1/7/46 (from
KW
, ii, 715). Cf. R. Strong,
Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy
(London, 2005), 133.
23
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. 1: 600–1540
, ed. D. M. Palliser (Cambridge, 2000), 215.
24
P. Binski,
The Painted Chamber at Westminster
(London, 1986), 33–69; idem,
Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power 1200–1400
(New Haven and London, 1995), 130.
25
Binski,
Westminster Abbey
, 130–2;
KW
, ii, 1044.
26
Binski,
Westminster Abbey
, 130, 134.
27
H. G. Richardson, ‘The Coronation in Medieval England’,
Traditio
, 16 (1960), 151–61, 171–3.
28
D. A. Carpenter, ‘King Henry III and the Cosmati Work at Westminster Abbey’, and idem, ‘Burial of King Henry III’,
Reign of Henry III
, 409–26, 435–7; Binski,
Westminster Abbey
, 130.
29
Strong,
Coronation
, 87–8; Carpenter, ‘Burial of King Henry III’, 443–54.
30
J. R. Maddicott, ‘Edward I and the Lessons of Baronial Reform’,
TCE
, i (1986), 10; W. Stubbs,
The Constitutional History of England
(3rd edn, Oxford, 1887), ii, 109n.
31
Prestwich,
Edward I
, 103–5; below, 366–7.
32
Guisborough, 216, exhibits a similar confusion reporting the baronial reaction.
33
D. A. Carpenter, ‘King, Magnates and Society: The Personal Rule of King Henry III, 1234–1258’,
Reign of Henry III
, 85–8, 99–106.
34
Maddicott, ‘Edward I and the Lessons of Baronial Reform’, 1–10. For a more positive assessment, cf. Huscroft, ‘Robert Burnell and the Government of England’,
passim
.
35
DNB
, viii, 898–900. For the fullest treatment, see R. Huscroft, ‘The Political and Personal Life of Robert Burnell, Chancellor of Edward I’ (Ph.D. thesis, London, 2000).
36
Huscroft, ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’,
passim;
idem, ‘Robert Burnell and the Government of England’, 65–6.
37
Carpenter,
Struggle
, 64–5, 199, 475, 479;
HBC
, 85, 228.
38
Maddicott, ‘Edward I and the Lessons of Baronial Reform’, 19; Carpenter,
Struggle
, 63–4, 92–3.
39
EHD
, iii, 392–6; Maddicott, ‘Edward I and the Lessons of Baronial Reform’, 19.
40
Ibid., 12–14.
41
Ibid., 19.
42
Ibid., 11, 14;
EHD
, iii, 397–410.
43
Prestwich,
Edward I
, 96; Huscroft, ‘Robert Burnell and the Government of England’, 69–70.
44
Maddicott, ‘Edward I and the Lessons of Baronial Reform’, 14–16;
EHD
, iii, 397, 409–10.
45
Above, 16–17.
46
Maddicott, ‘Edward I and the Lessons of Baronial Reform’, 23–5; Carpenter,
Struggle
, 479.
47
Ibid., 31, 33–4, 37, 40, 42–3, 45–6.
48
Kaeuper,
Bankers
, 135 –51;
EHD
, iii, 410; Carpenter,
Struggle
, 40; Davies,
Lordship and Society
, 119.
49
Kaeuper,
Bankers
, 1–4, 75–86, 118–21, 164–5. Cf. Prestwich,
Edward I
, 240–1.

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