Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England (42 page)

23
  

Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 244; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 156.

24
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 18.

25
  

DBM
, pp. 194–211 no. 29, esp. pp. 196–7.

26
  

Ibid.

27
  

Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 244–7; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 156.

28
  

Chronica majora
, v, p. 745.

29
  

CLR, 1251–60
, p. 460;
DBM
, pp. 194–211 no. 29, esp. pp. 196–9;
CChR, 1257–1300
, p. 18 (Melbourne, Kingshawe and Gunthorpe, Notts; Dilwyn, Lugwardine and Marden, Heref; Bere Regis, Dorset; Rodley and Minsterworth, Glos);
CPR, 1258–66
, p. 52–3; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 182, 188–9. The grant of manors was later amended so that the couple also received the Yorkshire manors of Easingwold and Huby:
CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 34–5;
CChR, 1257–1300
, p. 20; BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 13–13v. For an order to extend the Montforts’ new manors, see
CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 98–9. The speed with which the couple took possession of their new properties did not endear them to the previous tenants. On 19 August 1259, Simon and Eleanor were instructed to return the corn and livestock on the manor of Bere Regis to the Abbess of Tarrant, and, on 5 September 1259, those on the manor of Kingshawe to William le Latymer:
CR, 1256–9
, pp. 426, 433.

30
  

CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 24–5. Henry also undertook to protect the interests of the king of France against Eleanor: ibid., pp. 26–7. Significantly, the English king arranged for the drafting of two texts of the Treaty of Paris, both dated 20 May: one included the renunciation of Eleanor’s and Richard of Cornwall’s claims, while the other omitted these clauses, in recognition of Eleanor’s intransigence:
Treaty Rolls
, i, pp. 37–40 no. 103; Sanders, ‘The Texts of the Peace of Paris’, 84–5, 89–90, 94; Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 244–5.

31
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 25; Sanders, ‘The Texts of the Peace of Paris’, 89.

32
  

CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 25–6.

33
  

See p. 79.

34
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 26.

35
  

BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 10v–11v.

36
  

Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 245.

37
  

Treaty Rolls
, i, p. 48 no. 120; BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 11v; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 182–3. See also
Treaty Rolls
, i, pp. 43–8 nos 113–19, pp. 48–9 no. 121, pp. 51–2 no. 128; BnFr Clairambault MS 1188, ff. 11v–12, 12–13v, 15–15v.

38
  

Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 246–7; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 185.

39
  

Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 185–6.

40
  

Diplomatic Documents
, i, p. 215 no. 306; Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 330–1 no. xxxii;
CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 106–7; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 187; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 189–90.

41
  

Earl Simon followed suit by resigning his claims to the territories conquered by his father during the Albigensian crusade, and those of his brother in Evreux and Normandy:
Foedera
, i, pt i, p. 392;
Layettes du trésor des chartres. Tome troisième
, ed. J. de Laborde (1875). Paris: E. Plon, part ii, pp. 497–8 nos 4565–6; Chaplais, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Paris’, 247; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 160; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 188.

42
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 135.

43
  

Once more, if Louis proved reluctant to perform this role, Henry hoped that Queen Margaret or Peter the Chamberlain might fill the French king’s shoes:
CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 145–6; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 190–1. Documents relating to the case presented to the French by the Earl and Countess of Leicester in 1261 are printed in Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 332–53 nos xxxiv–xxxvii.

44
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 162.

45
  

Ibid., p. 169.

46
  

Ibid., p. 241. For letters sent by Henry III to Queen Margaret in April 1262, see
CR, 1261–4
, pp. 120–1.

47
  

‘Visitationibus Odonis Rigaudi, archiepiscopi Rothomagensis’, in Dom. M. Bouquet and L. Delisle (eds, 1840–1904),
Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Tome 21
. Paris: V. Palmé, p. 581.

48
  

CR, 1256–9
, p. 415.

49
  

DBM
, pp. 149–64 no. 12.

50
  

CPR 1258-66
, p. 45.

51
  

BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 13v; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 186; D. A. Carpenter (1996), ‘The Lord Edward’s Oath to Aid and Counsel Simon de Montfort, 15 October 1259’, in idem,
The Reign of Henry III
, pp. 241–52, esp. p. 251.

52
  

CR, 1259–61
, p. 12.

53
  

For detailed analysis of these events, see Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 180–205; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 192–224.

54
  

See Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 206–36; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 225–78.

55
  

Lettres des rois, reines, et autres personages des cours de France et d’Angleterre. Tome I
, ed. M. Champollion-Figeac (1839). Paris: Imprimerie Royale, pp. 62–4 no. li; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 191.

56
  

BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 16v; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 192.

57
  

Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 192.

58
  

BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 18–18v, 18v–19, 21–21v, 23, 31; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 193.

59
  

BnFr MS Clairambault MS 1188, f. 29; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 192–3, 264. See also p. 132.

60
  

Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 201.

61
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 266.

62
  

Ibid., pp. 263–5; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 227–8.

63
  

Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 227–8. The scale of the escalating crisis was reflected by the fact that just three days after the Montforts’ safe conduct was issued, Henry withdrew to the comparative safety of the Tower of London: ibid., p. 228.

64
  

For Eleanor of Provence’s activities at this time, see Howell,
Eleanor of Provence
, ch. 9. For Eleanor of Castile, see J. C. Parsons (1995),
Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England
. New York: St Martin’s Press, p. 24.

65
  

‘Annales Londonienses’, p. 64. See also Battle abbey chronicle, an excerpt from which is printed in Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 377.

66
  

See ‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, pp. 232–3, which records the transfer of Edward, Henry and later Richard to Wallingford, but without specific reference to Eleanor, and
De antiquis legibus liber. Cronica maiorum et vicecomitum Londoniarum
, ed. T. Stapleton (1846). London: Camden Society, pp. 63, 65, which notes the imprisonment of royal captives at Dover and the Tower, and the later transfer of ‘the king of Almain’ to Berkhamsted Castle. See also
Flores historiarum
, ii, p. 498.

67
  

‘Chronicon vulgo dictum chronicon Thomae Wykes’, in
Ann. mon
., iv, p. 153.