– visits Pope at Avignon: 225
– plots restoration of Edward II: 225, 252
– returns to England: 229
– at coronation of Queen Philippa: 229
– seizure of at Winchester: 229
– trial, judgement and confession: 229–231, 240
– execution: 231–234, 247, 263
– forfeited estates: 234
– said to be innocent by Roger at his execution: 241, 268
– wife: see Wake, Margaret de
Edward I (1239–1307), King of England (1272): 7–8, 10–12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23–33, 54, 78, 135, 245
Edward II, ‘Edward of Carnarvon’ (b. 1284), Prince of Wales (to 1307), King of England (1307–1327): 1–5, 48
– as Prince of Wales: 14–16, 18–19, 22–26, 28–31
– accession: 32
– favouritism of Gaveston: 19, 33–39
– marriage to Isabella: 36–37
– coronation: 37–38
– in crisis of 1308: 38–40
– engineers Gaveston’s return from Ireland: 42–43
– reaction to Gaveston’s murder: 51–53, 55–56
– campaign in Scotland, 1313–14: 55–64
– involvement in Irish affairs, 1315–17: 69, 72
– reaction to grievances of Llywelyn Bren and subsequent revolt: 74–76
– reaction to Bristol insurrection: 77, 79–80
– appointment of Roger as King’s Lieutenant in Ireland: 81–83
– interference in Roger’s government of Ireland: 84–85, 87
– relations with Lancaster 1318: 90–92
– support of Hugh Despenser and civil war of 1321: 99–110
– attack on Badlesmere: 111–113
– moves against Mortimers: 113–116
– confiscation of Roger’s possessions: 116–121
– imprisonment of members of Mortimer family: 121
– defeat of Lancaster: 123–125
– government with Despenser: 126–128
– reaction to Roger’s escape from Tower: 132–134
– management of Gascon politics: 136–138
– ratification of treaty with France: 141–142
– attempts to persuade Isabella to return to England: 142–144, 147, 284 (n. 23)
– reaction to Isabella’s desertion: 144–147
– reaction to Roger and Isabella’s invasion: 150–153
– flees from invaders: 153–157, 251
– abandoned by his household servants: 157
– surrender and imprisonment at Kenilworth: 159–160, 251
– deposition and abdication: 165–170, 196, 251
– removal from Kenilworth to Berkeley: 173–174, 187, 239, 251, 254
– rescue from Berkeley and recapture 1327: 176–177, 184
– conditions of imprisonment at Berkeley: 185, 188, 190
– supposed death in 1327: 185–195, 197–199, 212, 239, 242–264
– removal from Berkeley Castle in secret: 252, 256
– supposed burial in 1327: 186, 188, 197–199, 244–247, 250, 255, 263–264
– secretly in custody 1327–1330: 217, 219–220, 244–252, 254, 256, 258, 262–263
– custody made known to the Pope: 225
– possible attempt to free him 1329: 227
– Kent’s attempt to free him 1330: 229, 252
– travels on the continent 1330–38: 252–254, 256, 258–263
– appearance in Cologne as William le Galeys/William the Welshman: 260–263, 302 (n. 47), 303 (n. 51)
Edward III (1312–1377), Duke of Aquitaine (1325), King of England (1327): 3–4, 255
– birth, 1312: 53
– betrothal: 136, 141
– journey to France 1325: 138–139
– performs homage for Gascony: 141–143
– as custodian of realm: 157–158, 165–166
– proclamation as king: 168, 170
– knighted: 170
– crowned: 170–171
– role in Weardale campain: 177–184
– heard news of his father’s supposed death: 185, 197
– told of his father’s survival: 198, 292 (n. 11)
– dependence on Roger: 198–199
– claims the French throne: 204–205, 221
– anger at being forced to cede Scotland: 209
– refuses to attend his sister’s wedding: 209
– distrustful of Henry of Lancaster: 209–212
– escapes Lancaster’s attempt to capture him: 213
– included in Leintwardine chantry beneficiaries: 216, 222
– accused of breaking coronation oath: 217
– threatened with excommunication: 217
– performs homage for Gascony: 221
– relationship with Roger in decline: 224, 226–227
– warns Kent not to travel in Spain: 225
– upholds death sentence on his uncle: 232
– grudges against Roger: 235
– plots with Montagu how to resume control of the realm: 227, 235–239
– turns around Berkeley Castle plot in his favour: 244, 250–251
– goes on ‘pilgrimage’ to France 1331: 263
– makes pilgrimage to Gloucester 1343: 253
– possibly in receipt of the Fieschi letter: 259–260
– crowned Vicar of the Holy Roman Empire 1338: 260
Edward (b. 1320?), heir to the earldom of Norfolk: 225, 294 (n. 22), 322–323
Eland, William, speculator of Nottingham Castle: 237–238
Eldecote, John de: 121
Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290), Queen of England (1272): 10–11
Eltham, Kent: 228, 315–316
Eltham, John of: see John of Eltham
Ely, Bishop of: see Hothum, John de
Enfield, John de: 186
Ernwood, Shropshire: 78–79, 306, 319
Erskine, William: 181
Essex: 150
Evesham, Worcestershire: 201
Evesham, Battle of (1265): 7–8, 65
Evesham, Walter de: 121, 164
Evreux, Louis d’: see Louis d’Evreux
Ewer, Robert le: 128
Ewyas, lordship of: 44
Exeter, Devon: 188, 261
Falkirk, Scotland: 58
famine: 67, 72–73, 76, 80, 96
Faughart, Ireland: 93, 95–96
Feast of the Swans: 24–25
Ferns, Bishop of: see Adam of Northampton
Ferrard, Ireland: 49
Ferre, Guy de: 17
Ferrers, John de (1271–1312), Lord Ferrers (1293): 53
Fiennes, de, family: 14, 121, 134, 271 (n. 4), 320–321
Fiennes, Joan de: see Wake, Joan de
Fiennes, John de: 133, 202
Fiennes, Margaret de, daughter of William: see Mortimer, Margaret
Fiennes, Robert de: 82, 133
Fiennes, William de (d. 1302): 11
Fiennes, William (fl. 1316): 82
Fieschi, de, family of Genoa: 255
Fieschi, Manuele de (d. 1348), papal notary; Bishop of Vercelli (1343): 251–263
Fieschi, Nicholinus de, Genoese envoy to England: 260, 263, 303 (n. 51)
FitzAlan, Edmund (1285–1326), Earl of Arundel (1302), Justiciar of Wales (1322–26): 34, 38–39, 44, 49–50, 56, 102, 104, 107, 115, 132, 160, 163, 173, 234, 251, 270 (n. 1)
FitzAlan, Richard (1313?–1376), heir to earldom of Arundel; restored Earl (1331): 235, 249
FitElys, Robert: 66
FitzJohn, Thomas (d. 1328), Earl of Kildare (1316), Justiciar of Ireland (1327–28): 96, 98, 175
FitzJohn, William (d. 1326), Archbishop of Cashel (1317): 89
FitzReginald, John (d. 1310), Lord FitzReginald: 34
FitzThomas, John (d.1316), Earl of Kildare (1316): 81
FitzThomas, John (the above?): 45, 274 (n. 34)
FitzThomas, Richard (1319–1331), heir to
the earldom of Kildare: 228
FitzWarin, Fulk (d. 1336), Lord FitzWarin (1315): 231
Flanders/Flemish, Belgium: 128, 248, 260
Foix, Count of: 53
‘Folebrook’: 234
Forcet, Francisco: 260–261, 302 (n. 49)
Forfar Castle, Scotland: 54
Forteviot, Scotland: 26
Forth, River, Scotland: 59, 63
France: 2, 57, 121, 133–149, 158, 161, 196, 200, 204, 208–209, 220–224, 226, 263, 267, 283 (n. 10), 310
France, King of: see Philip IV, Charles IV, Philip VI, Louis IX
France, Queen of: 140, 148
Francis, William: 57
Franciscans (Greyfriars, Minoresses): 24, 242, 323
Frankton, Stephen de (fl 1282): 11
Fraser, Simon (d. 1306): 27–28
French Chronicle of London: 189, 235
Friars: see Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites
Friskeney, John de: 126
Froissart, Jean (c. 1333–c.1404), chronicler: 5, 222
Fryde, Natalie, historian: 253–254
furnishings, soft (curtains, bed–hangings, sheets etc): 117–120, 207–208
Galeys, John: 233, 298 (n.40)
Galeys, Philip de, Abbot of Wigmore (1302–1318): 93, 277 (n. 26)
Galeys, William le: see Edward II
Galtres Forest, Yorkshire: 201
Garton, Thomas de, Controller of the Kings Wardrobe: 211
Gascony, France (see also Aquitaine, Duchy of): 11, 21, 34, 43, 47, 53, 57, 105, 133–134, 136–143, 161, 169, 221, 227–228, 233, 240, 305
Gaveston, Arnaud de (d. 1302): 18
Gaveston, Joan (1312–1325), daughter of Piers Gaveston: 51
Gaveston, Margaret (d. 1342), Countess of Cornwall (1309): 32, 40, 51
Gaveston, Piers (d. 1312), Earl of Cornwall (1307): 3–5, 54, 65, 82, 95, 99, 101–102, 109, 135, 172, 273 (n. 23–26)
– as a companion to Edward before 1307: 15, 17–20, 23–24, 28–31
– created Earl of Cornwall: 32
– antagonism of the earls: 33–40, 43–44, 160
– as Regent of England: 34–35, 273 (n. 8, 9)
– at coronation of Edward II: 37–38
– cause of crisis in 1308: 38–39
– as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: 40–42, 274 (n. 28)
– returns to England: 43
– is exiled again, 1309: 44
– in Scotland with Edward: 46
– impeachment, 1311: 46–47
– capture and death, 1312: 50–53, 137
– burial, 1314: 65
Gayte, Richard le: 201
Geneville, de, family: 121, 206, 324
Geneville, Beatrice de (b. 1287), sister of Joan: 13, 172, 270 (n. 7)
Geneville, Geoffrey de (c. 1226–1314), Lord Geneville (1254), grandfather of Joan: 13–14, 16, 19, 34, 40–42, 271 (n. 12)
Geneville, Jean de, elder brother of Geoffrey: see Joinville, Jean de
Geneville, Joan de (d. 1323), wife of Peter (mother of Joan): 13, 19, 133, 206
Geneville, Joan de: see Mortimer, Joan
Geneville, Maud de (d. 1304) Lady Geneville (grandmother of Joan): 13, 46, 270 (n. 7)
Geneville, Maud de (b. 1291), sister of Joan: 13, 172
Geneville, Peter de (d. 1292), son of Lord Geneville (father of Joan): 13, 206
Genoa, Italy: 134, 255–256, 259–260, 302 (n. 43), 303 (n. 51)
Genté, France: 320
Geoffrey of Paris, chronicler: 36
Germain, Alexandre, archivist: 251–252
Germany: 57, 134, 169, 252, 260
Giffard, John (c. 1232–1299), Lord Giffard of Brimpsfield (1248): 10
Giffard, John (1287–1322), Lord Giffard of Brimpsfield (1299): 75–76, 99–100, 104–105, 126
Giffard, Walter (d. 1279), Archbishop of York (1266): 10
gift-giving (excluding severed heads, for which see heads, presentation of): 10, 15, 30, 38, 42, 155, 207, 209, 221, 224–226
Gisors, John de, alderman and Mayor of London: 130, 134, 282 (n. 16)
Glamorgan, Wales: 73–76, 87–88, 99, 105–106, 157, 176, 251, 258
Glamorgan, Sheriff of: 74
Glanville, Hugh de: 186, 198
Glasbury, Wales: 234
Glasgow, Bishop of: see Wishard, Robert
Glendalough, Ireland: 42
Gloucester: 77, 104–105, 110, 114, 126, 154, 156, 185–186, 188, 198, 213, 216, 227, 235–236, 245–247, 250, 252–253, 263, 311, 314–315, 317, 323
Gloucester, Abbot of St Peters: see Thoky,: 185, 245
Gloucester, Earls of: see Clare, Gilbert de (1243–1295); Clare, Gilbert de (1291–1314); Monthermer, Ralph de
Gloucester, Earldom of: 73, 90, 95, 97, 99, 101–102
Gloucestershire: 21, 107, 234
Glover, Arnold le: 281 (n. 6)
‘Glynsely’, Ireland: 279 (n. 32), 307
Gorges, Matthew de: 106
Gorges, Ralph de (d. 1323), Lord Gorges (appointed Justiciar of Ireland but never arrived): 106–107, 113, 281 (n. 11)
Gormanstown, Ireland: 234
Gower, Wales: 100–101, 127, 157
Granard, Ireland: 80
Grandison, Blanche de (d. 1347), Lady Grandison: 322–324
Grandison, Piers de (d. 1358), Lord Grandison: 324
Grantham, John de, alderman and Mayor of London: 215, 220
Gravesend, Stephen (d. 1338), Bishop of London ((1318): 112, 170, 213, 217, 228, 231
Greencastle, Ireland: 68
Greenwich, Kent: 2, 130
Grey, John de (1268–1323), Lord Grey of Wilton and Ruthin: 104
Grey, Richard de (1282?–1335), Lord Grey of Codnor: 110
Greyfriars: see Franciscans
Guienne, France: 57
Guildhall: see London, Guildhall
Gurney, Thomas: 95, 185, 188–191, 194, 197, 201, 245, 247–249, 251, 257, 260, 263, 292 (n. 2)
Gwennllwg, Wales: 99–100
Hainault, Belgium (see also Holland): 134–135, 140–141, 148–150–151, 164, 176, 183, 200, 310
Hainault, Count William of: see William of Hainault
Hainault, John of: see John of Hainault
Hainault, Philippa of: see Philippa of Hainault
Haines, Roy Martin, historian: 254, 258, 260
Hakelut, Edmund: 79, 81, 99
Hakelut, John: 323
Hakelut, Walter (d. 1315): 94
Haltwhistle, Northumberland: 180, 312
Hammond, Robert: see Howel, Robert:
Hampshire: 21, 107, 120–121, 135, 177
Hampshire, Sheriffs of: 129, 215
Hanley Castle, Worcestershire: 207
Harclay, Andrew de (d. 1323), Earl of Carlisle (1322): 123–124, 161, 286 (n. 18)
Harley, Robert de: 66, 79, 82
Harley, William de: 126
Hastings, Battle of (1066): 3
Hastings, Agnes, de (d. 1368), Countess of Pembroke (1339): 225, 294 (n. 22), 323
Hastings, John de (d. 1325), Lord Hastings (1313): 75, 103–105, 114
Hastings, Laurence de (1320–1348), heir to the earldom of Pembroke (Earl of Pembroke, 1339): 171; 201, 225, 234, 294 (n. 22), 322–323
Hastings, Robert de: 186
Haverford, Wales: 83, 157
Hawkslowe, Richard de: 201
Haydon, Northumberland: 179–180, 311
heads, presentation of: 8, 11, 13, 86, 93, 156 162
Hebrides, King of: 93
Henry II (1133–1189), King of England (1153): 12
Henry (1155–1183), son of Henry II: 12
Henry III (1207–1272), King of England (1216): 7, 10
Henry of Lancaster (c. 1281–1345), Earl of Leicester (1324), Earl of Lancaster (1326): 38, 75, 104, 135, 137, 142, 169, 189, 196, 227, 266, 284 (n. 22)
– role in 1326 invasion: 151–152, 154, 158–159
– as custodian of Edward II: 159–160, 251
– opposition to Roger and Isabella: 164, 172–175
– role in Weardale campaign: 177, 181, 183–184
– role on regency council: 172, 203, 288 (n. 21)
– determination to protect English interests in Scotland: 175, 199–200, 205
– claims that Roger removed Edward II by force: 174, 187, 288 (n. 26)
– origins of conflict with Roger 1328–29: 194, 199, 204–205
– accuses Roger of appropriating power: 209
– distrustful of Edward III: 209–210
– declares his enmity towards Roger and Isabella: 210–211
– threatens the king: 211–212
– petition of grievances against the government 1328: 212–213
– attempts to capture Edward III: 213
– protection of Thomas Wyther after murder of Holand: 213
– refuses to attend Parliament: 213–214
– reaction to Roger’s earldom: 215
– hears Edward II still alive: 216–217
– accuses Edward III of breaking coronation oath: 217