Geoffrey of Vinsauf, 79
George VI, King, 186n
Germany, 81, 87
Ghent, 21, 191
Gillyflowers, 11, 73, 80, 120, 286
Gloucester, 193, 196
Gloucester, Anne, Duchess of. See Neville, Anne
Gloucester, Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of, 100n
Gloucester, Humfrey, Duke of, 7, 14, 24, 28, 72, 100n, 172
Gloucester, Richard, Duke of. See Richard III, King
Golden Legend, The (Legenda Aurea), 150, 158, 274
Gordon, Lady Katherine, 275, 277–280, 279n, 299
Grafton, 75, 77–78
Gravesend, 155, 298
Gray, Katherine, 253
Great Chronicle of London, 64–65, 77, 86, 95, 122, 145, 222
Great Lynford, 158
Great Wardrobe accounts, 188, 260–261
Gregory’s Chronicle, 54, 57–59, 61–62, 65, 86
Grey, Jane, 324
Grey, John, 63, 70, 172
Grey, Richard, 175–176, 179–181, 186, 221
Gruffydd, Elis, 50
Gruuthuyse, Lord, 118–120
Guildford, Jane, 297
Hadington Castle, 301
Hall, Edward, 60, 75, 77, 103, 111, 129, 165, 218, 271, 278
Hallysworth, Doctor, 298
Hampton Court, 298
Harlech, 58
Hastings, Lord, 111, 173–177, 179–180, 190–193, 283
Hatfield House, 20, 288
Haute, Richard, 129
Hawkins, John, 95
Haynin, Jean de, 79
Headdresses, 134–135
Hearne’s “Fragment,” 76
Helton, John, 43
Henry II, xxii
Henry IV, King, 19, 100n
Henry V, King, xxii, 4, 9–10, 20, 26
Henry VI, King
Cade’s rebellion, 28
captivity, 57–59, 88–89, 109–110
cession of French territories, 4–5, 14–15, 24–26
childlessness, 26, 32
defeat deposition, 57–59, 64–65, 70, 88–89
Henry VII’s accession, 240
his death, 112, 114, 200
incapacity, 37–38, 40–41, 167, 172–174
marriage, 4–6, 12–13, 22
minority, 9, 20, 39, 166, 173
personality, 9–10, 30–31
Readeption, 105–106, 113, 113n
Suffolk’s banishment, 27–28
wounded at St. Albans, 41–42
Henry VII, King
accession, 236–238
appearance, 241
battle of Bosworth, 227–231
birth, 48–51
Buckingham rebellion, 197–200, 203
claim to throne, 195–200, 204–205, 211–212
Elizabeth of York’s death, 299–300, 306–308
exile in Brittany, 126–127, 178, 191, 196, 203
expedition against France, 268
French support, 211–212, 223, 226
his reign and pretenders, 241, 246–250, 266–273, 276–286
his tomb, 322
household ordinances, 257–258
illness and death, 312–316
Katherine Gordon, 277–280, 279n
Lancastrian opposition, 96, 101, 114, 166
marriage, 163, 195–196, 198, 200, 204–205, 211, 217–218, 237–238, 240–243, 255–266, 291–292
miserliness, 260–262, 308, 312
Prince Arthur’s wedding death, 291–292
Prince Henry’s upbringing, 299–300, 310, 316
Princes in the Tower, 195, 199–200
religiosity, 315
Richard’s marriage to Elizabeth of York, 225215
wardship, 71, 96
Warwick rebellion, 106
Yorkist line, 200, 235–236, 255–256, 260, 272, 278–280
Henry VIII, King
accession, 316–317
appearance, 21, 75, 317
Arthur’s wedding, 291
chivalric traditions, 6, 310
his marriages, 138, 171, 307, 310–311, 317
Margaret Beaufort’s death, 319
Margaret Beaufort’s religiosity, 305
Mary’s marriage, 315n
minority, 263, 272, 280, 282–283, 288–289, 310–313
mother’s death, 300
strict upbringing, 310, 316
Suffolk’s execution, 312
Tudor succession, 307–308
Yorkist line, 317
Herbert, Edward, 316
Herbert, Sir William, 71, 96
Hereford, 58
Herman, Bawder, 113
Higdon, Ranulf, 158
Hilton, Walter, 150, 306
History of the Arrivall of Edward IV, The, 106, 108–109, 111
Hitchin, 35–36
Holinshed, Raphael, 60, 129, 163
Hooh, Hans van, 298
Hookham, Mary Ann, 166
Hospital of St. John, 221
Humber, river, 108
Hume, David, xxii
Hundred Years War, 4, 8, 36–37
Hungary, 4
Hunsdon, 272
Inns of Court, 283
Ireland, 26–27, 29, 54, 61, 246, 248, 269, 275, 277
Isabel, Infanta, 219–220
Isabella of Castile, 42, 44n, 81, 254–255, 258, 269, 271, 280–281, 306, 310–311
Isabella of France, 9, 28, 39
Isabelle of Lorraine, 9
Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford
Anne Neville marriage, 124
Burgundian marriage, 93
dowry, 76–77
Elizabeth Woodville’s marriage, 81
her death, 118
Marguerite’s return from France, 62
vendetta, 95
Warwick rebellion, 107
witchcraft accusations, 100, 205
Yorkist claim, 89
James III, King of Scotland, 59
James IV, King of Scotland, 275–276, 281, 292, 300
James V, King of Scotland, 313n Jerusalem, 4
Jesus College, Cambridge, 309
Joan of Arc, 9, 20, 42, 62
Joan of Navarre, 100n Joana of Portugal, 219–220
John of Gaunt, xxii–xxiii, 21, 120, 142, 219, 225
Juana of Castile, 288, 311–313
Katherine of Valois, 31–32, 39, 247
Katherine of York, 158, 206, 267, 273, 289, 297–298
Kempis, Thomas à, 150
Kendal, 289
Kenilworth, 44, 248
Kent, 28, 105, 157–158 382
Kerver, Wechon, 298
Kings (biblical book), 269
Knights of the Bath, 83, 252
Knights of the Garter, 31, 160, 260
Knowsley, 204, 284
Lathom, 204, 284
Latin, 160–161, 270, 281
Leicester, 28, 227, 231
Leland, John, 251–252, 292, 322
Lessy, Richard, 274
Liber Niger, 118
Liber Regalis, 188–189
Life of Our Lady, The, 158
Lincluden Abbey, 59
Lincoln, John de la Pole, Earl of, 144, 173, 244, 248, 252, 285, 302
Little Device, 188
Livre de Coeur de l’Amour Epris, 11–12
London Bridge, 82, 156
Louis XI, King of France
accession, 69–70
designs on Burgundy, 139–140
English negotiations, 128–129, 139, 157, 162
his death, 211
Lancastrian opposition, 101
Machiavelli and, 102
Margaret of Burgundy, 271
Marguerite’s death, 166
Marguerite’s flight to France, 88
Mary of York, 142
sexual accusations of Princess Margaret, 93–94
support of Jasper Tudor, 95–96
Warwick rebellion, 107
Louis XIV, King of France, 315n
Love, Nicholas, 149–150
“Loveday,” 51
Lucy, Elizabeth, 147
Ludford Bridge, rout of, 54
Ludlow, 23, 31, 54, 120, 174–175, 191, 272, 292–293, 310
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 102
Maine, 4, 14–15, 26
Malines, 154, 249
Malory, Thomas, 11, 38–39, 78, 81–82, 158, 217n, 298
Mancini, Dominic
Anthony Woodville, 120–121
Cecily Neville’s morality, 21
Clarence death, 145
Edward’s paternity, 80–81
Elizabeth Woodville marriage, 76
Richard III’s accession, 174–175, 177, 181, 184, 188–189, 192–193
Tudor-York marriage, 164–165
Manner and Guiding of the Earl of Warwick, The, 102
March, Edward, Earl of. See Edward IV, King
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy
Clarence death, 153
Clarence marriage, 141–142
early life, 23, 72–74
Edward IV, 128, 140
Elizabeth’s coronation, 83
English negotiations, 155–158
Henry VII’s accession, 236, 249
her death, 302
her tomb, 323
love of books, 73–74, 157–158
marriage, 94–95
Mary of Burgundy’s death, 162
Perkin Warbeck affair, 266, 269–272, 274–276, 279–280, 282, 285–286
political role, 138–140
religiosity, 74, 150, 154–155, 306
sexual accusations, 93–94, 271
the Treaty of Arras, 191
Warwick rebellion, 106, 109
Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, 281
Margaret of York, 118
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, 49, 262–263, 281–282, 287, 292, 300, 313n
Marguerite of Anjou
Anne Neville marriage, 102–103, 107
appearance, 6–7, 81
as queen, 10–15, 24–25, 27–31, 40–44, 51–55, 57–58, 61–62, 128–129, 167, 173
birth of Prince Edward, 35–39
Cecily Neville, 22, 35–36, 54–55
childlessness, 25–26
daisy emblem, 73
defeat Henry VI’s deposition, 64–65, 69–70
entry into London, 7–9
estates, 9
finances, 29–30
Henry VII’s accession, 240
her character, 271n her death, 166–167
her household, 13
her tomb, 323
Lancastrian opposition, 80–81, 85–90, 95, 101–102
marriage, 4–9, 22
matchmaking, 24
poverty, 7, 88, 166–167, 292
renunciation, 129
sexual accusation, 38–39, 43–44, 59
Suffolk’s banishment, 27–28
Warwick rebellion, 108–112
Mariona (laundrywoman), xxiv
Marteaux, 119
Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, 153, 157
her death, 162
her marriage, 98, 139, 142
marriage of her son, 155
Treaty of Arras, 191
Mary, Queen (“Bloody” Mary), 324
Mary, Queen (Mary of Teck), 186n
Mary, Queen of Scots, 134n, 313n, 323, 324
Mary of Guelders, 59
Mary of York, 90, 135, 159
Mary Tudor, Queen of France, 276, 282, 292, 297, 311, 313, 315n, 317, 319
Massy, Alice, 245
Matilda of Hackenborn, 150
Maundy Thursday, 260
Maxey, 31, 195
Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, 142, 154, 157–158, 162, 191, 269, 271–272, 279, 285, 307
Medici, Catherine de, 38–39
Meno, Pregent, 277
Mercers’ Company, 221
Merchant Adventurers, 158
Merton Priory, 148
Michelangelo, 322
Middleham Castle, 74, 124–125
Milan, Duchess of, 5–6
Milford Haven, 226
Mirror of Gold for the Sinful Soul, The, 319
Mirror of the World, 158
“Mixed life, the,” 149–150, 306
Molinet, Jean, 193, 212
Mondrot, Bernard de, 148
More, Thomas
birth of Richard, 36
Clarence death, 145
death of Elizabeth, 299–300
Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, 77, 81
Princes in the Tower, 193, 199
Richard III’s accession, 173, 176, 179, 181–184, 190
York children, 282–283
Mortimer, Roger, 28
Mortimer’s Cross, battle of, 64
Morton, John, Bishop of Ely, 179, 182, 196, 199, 212, 239, 276
Mowbray, Anne, 143–144, 147–148, 159
Muscatel, 305
Musicians, 260
Mylling, Abbot, 105–106, 121
Naples, 4
Nattres, James, 298
Nene, river, 133
Nesfield, John, 194
Neville, Anne, xxiii
as queen, 192–193, 255
Duke of York’s reburial, 136
early life, 41, 45, 74, 111
Elizabeth of York, 214
her coronation, 188
her tomb, 323
illness and death, 214–219
marriage (Prince Edward), 102–104, 107–108
marriage (Richard III), 122–124, 209
Richard III’s accession, 175, 178, 188–190
son’s death, 209
Neville, Bishop George, 65, 74
Neville, Isabel, 45
Neville of Raby, Lord, 179
Newport, 50
Ninepins, 119
Norfolk, Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of, 144, 146–147
Norfolk, John Howard, Duke of, 216
Norfolk, Katherine Neville, Duchess of, 92n
Norman Conquest, 82, 231
Northampton, battle of, 57, 70
Norwich, 25, 100
Nottingham, 225, 227
Observants, 306
Orléans, Duke of, 8
Ormond, Earl of, 276
Oxford, Countess of, 252–253
Oxford, Earl of, 91, 212, 226, 229
Oxford University, 309
Parker, Henry, 204, 280, 305, 317
“Parliament of Devils,” 54
Parron, William, 297–298, 298n
Paston, John, 94, 101, 122, 124
Paston, Margaret, 49, 53n
Paston, Margery, 24–25, 62n
Paston, William, 259
Paston letters, 29, 39, 43–44, 91, 120
Patronage, 89, 158, 161
Pembroke Castle, 45, 48, 50–51
Pertriche, John, 262
Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 162, 191, 271, 275, 282, 287, 302, 311–313
Pietro di Milano, 6
Piracy, 51–52
Plague, 48, 287
Plymouth, 289
Pontefract, 132–133, 192
Popplau, Nicolaus von, 200
Porchester, 3–4
Portugal, 87, 219–221, 277
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 102
Privacy, demand for, 119–120
Privy Seal, 43, 176–177
Psalms, 73
Queens’ College, Cambridge, 89, 136, 309–310
Queen’s Wardrobe accounts, 30
Raglan, 296
Reading Abbey, 82
Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne, The, 290
Reginald the idiot, 280
Religious enthusiasm, 149–151, 154–155
René, Duke of Anjou (King of Sicily), 4, 9, 11, 113, 129
Rennes Cathedral, 204
Richard II, King, xxii, 18, 172, 174
Richard III, King
accession, 167, 172–186
Anne Neville’s death, 218–219, 221–222
as king, 191–192, 209–212
battle of Bosworth, 227–231
Buckingham rebellion, 198–200, 203
Clarence’s execution, 145
Duke of York’s reburial, 133, 136
early life, 36, 63, 73–74
Edward IV’s French expedition, 128
Elizabeth of York, 214–218, 220–222, 240–241
his coronation, 188–189, 253
marriage, 122–124
murder accusations, xxiii, 145, 199–201, 218, 222
Princes in the Tower, 192–195, 199–201, 207–208, 210, 218, 240–241, 294
son’s death, 209
the death of Henry VII, 112
Tudor threat, 203–209, 211–212, 223, 226–231
Warwick rebellion, 106, 108, 111–112
Richmond, 292–293, 297, 299–300, 311, 315–316
Rivers, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl, 157–158, 296
bolstering Woodville power, 172
Edward’s council, 117
his arrest and execution, 175, 186, 221
his character, 120–121
imprisonment, 174–175
love of books, 161
Mowbray marriage, 144
refuge in Burgundy, 104
tournament, 94
Warwick rebellion, 108
Rivers, Elizabeth, Countess, 119, 253
Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl, 76, 91, 99–100
Rivers, Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl, 212
Rockingham Forest, 133–134
Rome, 156
Romsey, 248
Roos, Mary, 257
Rotherham, Thomas, Archbishop of York, 176–177, 182, 218
Rouen, 8, 21–22, 26, 29, 85, 108, 184
Rous, John, 124, 218, 231
Roxburgh, 59
Roye, Jean de, 148
Rozmital, Leo von, 89–90
Rutland, Edmund, Earl of, 21, 54, 60, 71, 132
St. Agatha, 50
St. Agnes, 50
St. Albans, first battle of, 41–42
St. Albans, second battle of, 61–62
St. Anne, 138
St. Anthony the hermit, 144
St. Barbara, 50
St. Bridget of Sweden, 150, 158, 257
St. Catherine of Alexandria, 50
St. Catherine of Siena, 150
St. Cecilia, 50
St. Christopher, 274
St. Colette, 138
St. Erasmus, 158
St. George, 160, 260
St. John, Sir Oliver, 18, 31
St. John’s College, Cambridge, 309–310
St. Katherine, 274
St. Leger, Thomas, 72, 138
St. Malo, 163
St. Margaret, 44, 50, 87
St. Margaret of Antioch, 138
St. Matilda, 274
St. Michael’s Mount, 277
St. Michel-sur-Bar, 88
St. Nicholas, 32
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 291
St. Paul’s Cross, 183
St. Stephen’s Chapel, 144, 165
St. Waudru, 138
Salazar (mercenary), 228
Salic law, 39–40
Salisbury, Alice, Countess of, 54
Salisbury, Richard Neville, Earl of, 41, 60
Sanctuary, 176, 180–181, 194, 204–208, 246, 277
Sandal Castle, 60
Sandwich, 99, 129
Scala Perfectionis, 257