Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England (44 page)

36
  

Manners
, p. 34 and n. 8; H. W. Blaauw (1844),
The Barons’ War including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham
, London: Nichols and Son, p. 283 n. 1.

37
  

The wife of Hugh Despenser was also the daughter of Philip Basset:
Manners
, p. 65 and n. 9.

38
  

Ibid., p. 24.

39
  

Ibid., pp. 19, 24 (messenger from prioress), 31 (messenger for carrying letters of countess and the king to the prioress), 34 (messenger from prioress). For Amesbury’s royal connections, see Thompson,
Women Religious
, pp. 121–3, 218.

40
  

Manners
, p. 24.

41
  

Ibid., p. 18. A Walter de Fauconberg married Agnes, a sister and co-heiress of Peter de Brus, eighth lord of Skelton. For Walter and the Fauconberg family, see G. Poulson (1840)
The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, Volume I
. Hull: Robert Brown, p. 403; J. W. Ord (1846),
The History and Antiquities of Cleveland
. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., p. 250. See also pp. 90–1.

42
  

Manners
, pp. 6, 11 (wine), 16 (wine), 18 (cope), 19 (wine), 29 (wine).

43
  

Ibid., p. 33.

44
  

Ibid., p. 10; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 81–2.

45
  

Manners
, p. 5; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 42, 44. See also p. 85.

46
  

Manners
, p. 6 and n. 3.

47
  

Ibid., p. 75.

48
  

The Letters of Adam Marsh
, i, pp. 170–5 nos 71–2, 175–7 no. 74.

49
  

Manners
, pp. 6, 21; Kjær, ‘Food, Drink and Ritualised Communication’, 79.

50
  

Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 142.

51
  

Ibid., pp. 68–9.

52
  

Manners
, p. 11; MacGregor,
Odiham Castle
, p. 57.

53
  

Manners
, pp. 9, 31. For the settlement, see
CPR, 1258–66
, p. 414.

54
  

Manners
, p. 14.

55
  

Ibid.

56
  

Ibid., pp. 23, 71.

57
  

Ibid., p. 25. Edmund also received gifts of miniver: ibid., p. 26.

58
  

Ibid.

59
  

See pp. 44, 56–7, 69, 77.

60
  

On the importance of dress to personal honour and rank, see ‘The
Rules
of Robert Grosseteste’, pp. 402–3 no. xxi.

61
  

Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, pp. 505–6.

62
  

Manners
, p. 67.

63
  

Ibid., p. 18. For the younger Eleanor, see pp. 13–14, 88.

64
  

Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, p. 518.

65
  

Those with Eleanor at the end included: J. of Snave, Thomas of Sandwich, Richard, rector of Kemsing, William the clerk of Leicester, Ralph d’Arcy, Michael of Kemsing, William de Lacu, Walter Penchecouste, John Spinard, Damsel Hawise de Wortham, Geoffrey Norfolk, Geoffrey the Cook, John de la Haye, Robert Corbet, B. de Otringbere, John of Betteshanger, Roger de Tilemanson, Thomas de Crevequer, Simon of Bodiham, John de Ostregate, Robert of Chilham, Nicholas Karrok, Stephen de Pirie, Sampson de Soles, Damsel Christiana de Craiwell, William de St Philibert and Simon de Fernham: TNA: PRO, SC 1/8/23;
Royal Letters
, ii, pp. 294–6 no. DCXLIV; Powicke,
Henry III
, ii, p. 518 n. 2.

66
  

CR, 1264–8
, pp. 217–18.

67
  

For the Lord Edward’s escape, see
CR, 1264-8
, pp. 124–5.

68
  

Manners
, p. 42.

69
  

Ibid., pp. 42–7.

70
  

Ibid., p. 41 (just before she left Odiham and just before Simon junior’s arrival on 31 May).

71
  

Ibid., p. 47 (at Bramber Castle in Sussex).

72
  

Ibid., pp. 46–8; Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 335–6.

73
  

Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 156.

74
  

Manners
, pp. 49–50.

75
  

Ibid., p. 50.

76
  

Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 66.

77
  

Manners
, pp. 76–7. See also ibid., pp. 55, 57, 67.

78
  

On the importance of dining in the hall, see ‘The
Rules
of Robert Grosseteste’, pp. 402–3 no. xxii.

79
  

See, for example,
Manners
, pp. 49, 58–9.

80
  

See, for example, ibid., pp. 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63.

81
  

Ibid., p. 60.

82
  

Ibid., pp. 59, 63. Some items, including additional ale, wine, fish and meat, were purchased in Dover itself: ibid., pp. 49, 58, 60, 61–2.

83
  

Ibid., p. 24.

84
  

See, for example, ibid., pp. 8, 9–10, 14–15, 32, 56; Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 63.

85
  

CPR, 1247–58
, p. 61; Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 63. Wortham fought with Earl Simon and died with him at Evesham: W. H. Blaauw and C. H. Pearson (1871),
The Barons’ War including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham
(2nd edn). London: Bell and Daldy, p. 318 n. 5. At the time of Evesham, he also held the wardship of Richard le Bretun’s heir in Stondon, Beds:
CIM
, p. 187 no. 611.

86
  

Manners
, pp. 18, 18 n. 10, 55.

87
  

Ibid., p. 17 and n. 3;
CIM
, pp. 286–7 no. 939, esp. p. 287 (lands in Dikering wapentake, Yorks). For William the clerk, see also
Royal Letters
, ii, pp. 294–6 no. DCXLIV, esp. p. 295.

88
  

Manners
, p. 32. Fulk was later among those dispatched from Dover to London in July: ibid., p. 57.

89
  

Ibid., pp. 10, 26, 33, 55, 64.

90
  

Ibid., pp. 8, 11, 31, 40, 57, 63.

91
  

Ibid. p. 31.

92
  

Ibid., pp. 21, 24, 32, 33, 34, 56.

93
  

Ibid., pp. 24, 31, 65, 66.

94
  

Ibid., p. 24.