Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England (46 page)

155

Manners
, pp. 51–2, 65, 72, 76. For a gift of capons, see ibid., pp. 77-8.

156

A point made in Kjær, ‘Food, Drink and Ritualised Communication’, 80 (who notes that pike and capons were other foodstuffs that Eleanor served her guests).

157

Manners
, pp. 47–8; Kjær, ‘Food, Drink and Ritualised Communication’, 81.

158

Manners
, p. 50.

159

Ibid., p. 62. On ale, see J. M. Bennett (1996),
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300–1600
. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

160

N. J. G. Pounds (1990),
The Medieval Castle in England and Wales
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 82.

161

J. Coad (2007),
Dover Castle
. London: English Heritage, pp. 44–5, offers a useful summary of this work.

162

Manners
, p. 25. For Henry’s purchases from Luke, see Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 134.

163

Manners
, p. 18.

164

Ibid., p. 18. In late May, Eleanor the younger had also received a gilded plate that had been bought in London for her use by her mother’s officials: ibid., p. 32.

165

Ibid., p. 65.

166

Ibid., p. 64; Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 144.

167

Manners
, p. 26.

168

Ibid
., p. 33.

169

Ibid
., p. 85; Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 132.

170

See, for example,
Manners
, p. 31 (shoes for Robert de Valle and Petronilla the laundress at Odiham).

171

Ibid., p. 10. See also ibid., p. 26; Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, pp. 135–6.

172

See, for example, ibid., p. 63.

173

Manners
, pp. 55, 56.

174

Ibid., p. 65.

175

O. de Laborderie, J. R. Maddicott and D. A. Carpenter (2000), ‘The Last Hours of Simon de Montfort: A New Account’,
EHR
, 115, 378–412, at 396–406.

176

Ibid., 409, 411.

177

Ibid.

178

Maddicott,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 342–3.

179

Manners
, p. 72; Labarge,
Mistress, Maids and Men
, p. 133. See also p. 38.

180

Manners
, p. 81.

181

Ibid., p. 83.

182

‘Chronicon Thomae Wykes’, p. 179.

183

Manners
, pp. 67, 68.

184

Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
(2nd edn), p. 251 n. 4.

185

Manners
, p. 66.

186

Ibid., p. 67.

187

Ibid.

188

Ibid.

189

Ibid., pp. 83–4; Blaauw and Pearson,
The Barons’ War
, p. 328 n. 3.

190

Her father was the royalist Philip Basset: Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 260.

191

Manners
, p. 66.

192

Ibid.

193

Ibid.

194

Ibid., p. 74.

195

TNA: PRO, SC 1/2/46;
Royal Letters
, ii, p. 292 no. DCXLI.

196

CR, 1264–68
, p. 136.

197

Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury
, ii, p. 243; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 262.

198

Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 262. See also ‘Annales de Waverleia’, p. 367;
Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
, ed. H. Ellis (1859). London: Longman, Rolls Series, p. 230;
Chronica monasterii S. Albani, Willelmi Rishanger
, ed. H. T. Riley (1865). London: Longman, Rolls Series, p. 38.

1
    

The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft, in French Verse, from the Earliest Period to the Death of King Edward I
, ed. T. Wright (1868). London: Longman, Rolls Series, pp. 146–7.

2
    

Foedera
, i, pt i, p. 465.

3
    

‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 259;
The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds, 1212–1301
, ed. A. Gransden (1964). London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, p. 33.

4
    

Ibid., p. 33; BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 26v, 28.

5
    

These events are summarized in Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, pp. 518–19. For the submission of Simon junior and his subsequent flight, see
Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
, p. 230;
Gervase of Canterbury
, ii, pp. 243–4; ‘Annales Londonienses’, pp. 71–2 (which gives the date of his flight); ‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 259;
Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds
, p. 33. See also BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 26v;
CPR, 1258–66
, pp. 608–10.

6
    

‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 259;
Gervase of Canterbury
, ii, pp. 244–5; Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, p. 519. For Guy’s capture, see de Laborderie, Maddicott and Carpenter, ‘The Last Hours’, 409, 411.

7
    

‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 259.

8
    

Royal Letters
, ii, p. 293 no. DCXLII.

9
    

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 506. On the rebels who held out in, for example, East Anglia, see
Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds
, pp. 33–7.

10
  

Chronica . . . Willelmi Rishanger
, p. 43.

11
  

‘Regesta 32: 1265–1268’, in
Calendar of Papal Registers, Volume 1: 1198–1304
, pp. 425–35, available online at
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=96027
, accessed on 25 August 2010; Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, p. 527 n 1.

12
  

Royal Letters
, ii, pp. 304–5 no. DCLII.

13
  

CPR, 1258–66
, p. 641.

14
  

Ibid., p. 678.

15
  

Statutes of the Realm, Volume I
(1810). London: Record Commission, pp. 12–18; Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, p. 535. See also Powicke,
King Henry III and the Lord Edward
, ii, pp. 533–7.