Edward II: The Unconventional King (54 page)

13
. Peter Coss and Maurice Keen,
Heraldry, Pageantry
, 89;
Vita
, 40.

14
.
CCR 1301–7
, 83.

15
.
CCR 1307–13
, 224;
Foedera
, 78, 82–3.

16
.
Foedera
, 85;
CDS
, 19.

17
.
Foedera
, 74.

18
.
CCR 1307–13
, 13, 42, 281;
Bruce
, 261.

19
.
Foedera
, 79.

20
.
Polychronicon
, 299.

21
. Prestwich,
Edward I
, 111; Parsons,
Eleanor
, 50.

22
.
Foedera
, 81.

23
.
Vita
, 9;
Guisborough
, 384–5.

24
.
Foedera
, 86, 98, 103;
CCR 1307–13
, 171, 173, 190, 270, 283, 291.

25
.
CPR 1307–13
, 211.

26
.
Foedera
1272–1307
, 995.

27
. Yonge,
Flowers of History
, 585;
ODNB
.

28
.
ODNB
.

29
.
Vita
, 8.

30
.
Foedera
, 102.

31
.
Vita
, 9;
CPR 1307–13
, 206–07;
Foedera
, 103.

32
.
AL
, 167–8.

33
.
Opposition
, 359;
AL
, 169.

34
.
AL
, 169–74.

35
.
AL
, 170–71; Phillips, 166;
Opposition
, 357–93.

36
. R. Graham,
The Register of Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
(1956), Part 2, 1,043.

37
.
CPR 1307–13
, 277.

38
. Prestwich,
Three Edwards
, 81.

39
.
Polychronicon
, 299;
Scalacronica
, 43.

40
. SAL MS 122, 55, 63, 79.

41
.
Vita
, 12.

42
.
CDS
, 40–41, 48.

43
.
CDS
, 33.

44
.
CDS
, 39.

45
.
Vita
, 40.

46
.
CPR 1307–13
, 333;
Foedera
, 129;
AL
, 175;
AP
, 269.

47
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 85;
Lancaster
, 115.

48
.
Lanercost
, 192. J. S. Hamilton states that the story cannot be true, as Gaveston was only with Edward at Berwick in late March 1311, when the earl of Lancaster was in Leicester. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 159 note 46;
Lancaster
, 342.

49
.
CDS
, 40.

50
. Phillips, 74, 174.

51
.
CDS
, 41.

52
.
AL
, 175–6.

53
.
Itinerary
, 75–6;
Vita
, 17;
Register
, 76.

54
.
Itinerary
, 76–7;
Vita
, 17. Queen Isabella went on pilgrimage to Canterbury in October 1311:
Household Book
, 143.

55
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 91.

56
.
Issues
, 124.

57
. This and all following quotes from the Ordinance, and Edward’s reaction to it, from
Vita
, 17–20.

58
.
AP
, 270;
Trokelowe
, 67;
CCR 1307–13
, 439.

59
.
Foedera
, 143.

60
.
CCR 1307–13
, 441;
Foedera
, 144.

61
.
CCR 1307–13
, 393, 441;
Foedera
, 144–5.

62
.
Household Book
, 137.

63
. Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 75–6.

64
.
Vita
, 20.

65
.
CPR 1307–13
, 26.

66
.
AP
, 171;
AL
, 202; Philips,
Edward II
, 180.

67
.
Itinerary
, 79;
CPR 1307–13
, 397–8;
CCR 1307–13
, 380–81, 441;
Foedera
, 148.

68
.
CPR 1307–13
, 397.

69
.
CPR 1307–13
, 397.

70
.
CPR 1307–13
, 395, 398;
Household Book
, 209.

71
.
Household Book
,
208; Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 75.

72
.
Trokelowe
, 68–9;
Vita
, 21;
AP
, 271.

73
.
CPR 1307–13
, 405;
Foedera
, 151.

74
.
Vita
, 21.

75
. Stones and Keil, ‘Edward II and the Abbot of Glastonbury’, 176–82; Chris Given-Wilson,
Chronicles: The Writing of History in Medieval England
, 73–4, 229. It is not entirely clear in which year this correspondence took place; possibly, it belongs to 1321/22, when Edward’s friends the Despensers had also been banished from England, or to 1308/09, Gaveston’s first exile.

76
.
Foedera
, 149, 151;
CPR 1307–13
, 398;
CCR 1307–13
, 447.

77
. Sayles,
Functions of Medieval Parliament
, 302.

78
.
Vita
, 21.

79
. ‘Brief Summary ’, 342.

80
.
AL
, 202;
Gesta
, 41;
Vita
, 2; Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 93.

81
.
Vita
, 21.

5 Death, Birth and Reconciliation

1
.
Household Book
, 143.

2
.
Itinerary
, 81;
CCW
, 382; Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 77–8.

3
.
Gesta
, 42; Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 78–9; Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 93–4.

4
. Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 77.

5
.
CCR 1307–13
, 448–9;
Foedera
, 153;
AL
, 203.

6
. Chaplais,
English Diplomatic Practice in the Middle Ages
, 128, 130; Tout,
Chapters
, Vol. 2, 199–200. Phillips, ‘Place of the Reign’,
RENP
, 221–3, discusses the 1317 letter, and earlier historians’ insistence on Edward’s alleged stupidity and illiteracy.

7
. Lanercost
, 196.

8
.
Vita
, 22–4.

9
.
Trokelowe
, 74–5;
Lancaster
, 124; Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 81.

10
.
Register
, 50;
Household Book
, 17, 25.

11
.
AL
, 203;
Lancaster
, 123.

12
.
Vita
, 22–3.

13
.
Register
, 143; ‘Secular Musicians’, 62.

14
.
Register
, 167, 218.

15
.
Register
, 116.

16
.
Register
, 119.

17
.
Household Book
, 25, 27, 137.

18
.
Household Book
, 13.

19
.
Traitor
, 49–50, 69–70, 87, 100–1, 305–9.

20
.
Flores
, 149;
Vita
, 22.

21
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 94.

22
. ‘Court’, 66.

23
. SAL MS 122, 21, 28, 45.

24
.
CCR 1307–13
, 581.

25
.
Foedera
, 162.

26
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 95.

27
.
CCR 1307–13
, 426;
Register
, 143; ‘Secular Musicians’, 63.

28
.
CPR 1307–13
, 454;
CFR 1307–19
, 129.

29
.
Foedera
, 163–4;
CCR 1307–13
, 458.

30
.
Foedera
, 169;
Lanercost
, 197;
Gesta
, 42;
Itinerary
, 85.

31
.
Trokelowe
, 75–6.

32
. Doherty, ‘Isabella’, 42, 92.

33
.
Household Book
, xxv–xxvi: ‘the story that Edward abandoned Isabella seems to be a most unlikely one’; Haines,
Edward
, 84: ‘a fictitious tale’; Phillips, 482: Edward ‘did not abandon the pregnant Isabella’; Doherty,
Death
, 51; Burgtorf, ‘With my Life’, 49. Weir (
Isabella
, 63–4) is one of the few modern writers who accepts the story.

34
.
Household Book
, 55.

35
.
Household Book
, xxvi, 15.

36
. Doherty,
Death
, 51.

37
.
Foedera
, 203–5;
CPR 1307–13
, 554, 562.

38
.
Vita
, 34–5.

39
.
Gesta
, 42;
Lanercost
, 197–8;
Vita
, 24;
Lancaster
, 125; Phillips, 187–8.

40
.
Vita
, 24.

41
.
CPR 1307–13
, 460;
CCR 1307–13
, 460;
Foedera
, 169;
Valence
, 33.

42
.
Gesta
, 42;
Trokelowe
, 76;
Vita
, 24.

43
.
Flores
, 150–51.

44
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 96;
AL
, 204–206.

45
.
AL
, 204–06;
Vita
, 24.

46
.
Vita
, 24.

47
.
Vita
, 24.

48
.
Valence
, 34; Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 97.

49
.
Lancaster
, 127.

50
. Vale,
Princely Court
, 180;
Foedera
, 170.

51
.
AL
, 207, 236.

52
.
Vita
, 25.

53
.
Flores
, 152–3.

54
.
AL
, 206–07.

55
.
Vita
, 25.

56
.
Trokelowe
, 77.

57
.
Gesta
, 43–4.

58
.
Vita
, 26.

59
.
Vita
, 26–8.

60
.
Vita
, 27, and see also:
AL
, 207;
AP
, 271;
Anonimalle
, 86;
Baker
, 5;
Gesta
, 44;
Flores
, 152;
Lanercost
, 198;
Murimuth
, 17–18;
Trokelowe
, 77.

61
.
AL
, 207.

62
.
Foedera
, 204.

63
.
AP
, 262.

64
.
Itinerary
, 86;
Household Book
, 45, 63, 221;
CFR 1307–19
, 136–7;
CCR 1307–13
, 427–8;
CPR 1307–13
, 465;
Anonimalle
, 86,
Brut
, 207,
Vita
, 30,
Trokelowe
, 77.

65
.
Vita
, 30.

66
.
Vita
, 29–30;
Lanercost
, 198;
Anonimalle
, 86.

67
.
Scalacronica
, 51.

68
. T. Wright,
The Political Songs of England
, 258–61;
Vita
, 29.

69
. Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 99.

70
.
Lanercost
, 203;
Opposition
, 85.

71
.
CPR 1307–13
, 497, 664.

72
.
Itinerary
, 86;
Household Book
, 221.

73
. ‘Secular Musicians’, 63;
Multitudo
, 143;
Register
, 63, 77, 218.

74
.
AL
, 208–10.

75
.
CPR 1307–13
, 489–90.

76
.
Lanercost
, 199;
AL
, 216.

77
.
Vita
, 31.

78
.
Lanercost
, 198.

79
.
Vita
, 30, 32.

80
.
CPR 1307–13
, 490;
Foedera
, 178;
Vita
, 32–33.

81
.
Vita
, 29.

82
.
Vita
, 33–4.

83
.
Vita
, 34.

84
.
Vita
, 38.

85
.
Foedera
, 191–2;
CPR 1307–13
, 517;
AL
, 221–25.

86
.
Register
, 32; ‘Secular Musicians’, 64; Weir,
Isabella
, 69.

87
.
Register
, 31–2; ‘Secular Musicians’, 64.

88
.
CPR 1307–13
, p. 508;
Foedera
, 184. Isabella’s will does not survive, and Edward himself never made one.

89
.
Trokelowe
, 79–80;
Vita
, 36;
Perfect King
, 23.

90
.
CPR 1307–13
, 516, 519.

91
.
Vita
, 37.

92
.
Perfect King
, 19–20.

93
.
AL
, 220–21.

94
.
Perfect King
, 23.

95
.
CDS
, 58–9.

96
.
Vita
, 48.

97
.
Itinerary
, 94–5; Weir,
Isabella
, 73.

98
.
Foedera
, 209.

99
.
Foedera
, 203–05; Chaplais,
Gaveston
, 125–34; Hamilton,
Gaveston
, 119–127.