by Alison Weir
148 John of Gaunt’s will is dated February 3, 1398, but in view of the medieval legal calendar, which ended on March 25, the year should read 1399. The best text of the will is preserved at York; see Testamenta Eboracensia. A contemporary copy is in Bishop Buckingham’s Register at Lincoln, but this bears the incorrect date of 1397, an error that has often been copied. The will was published by Nichols (A Collection of All the Wills…) in 1780. The Latin text is reproduced by Armitage- Smith, and an English translation is given by Silva- Vigier. See Post, for the dating of the will.
149 For Margaret Marshal, Duchess of Norfolk, his cousin, from whom he had purchased these items
150 Goodman, Honourable Lady
151 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Norwich Public Library ms. NRS 11061
152 The date is given by Walsingham as February 3, the date of the will, and the date on which the duke’s obit was celebrated at St. Paul’s (Dugdale). Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 28; Post.
153 Norris
154 Testamenta Eboracensia. The less reliable Lincoln text says “unembalmed.”
155 Walsingham; Armitage- Smith; Harriss; Lucraft: Katherine Swynford; Calendar of Patent Rolls; Froissart; Radford; Cook, “Chaucerian Papers”
156 This stood on the site of the Church of St. John the Baptist, first built ca. 1400.
157 Cited by Duffy; Post; Testamenta Eboracensia; Walsingham; Adam of Usk
158 Testamenta Eboracensia
159 Calendar of Close Rolls; Calendar of Patent Rolls; St. Paul’s Cathedral mss.
160 Duffy
161 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 28
162 Froissart
163 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 28; Post
10. THE KING’S MOTHER
1. Complete Peerage; Chancery Records, C. 81; Special Collections, S.C. 8
2. Rotuli Parliamentorum; Somerville; McKisack
3. Froissart; Rose; Goodman, John of Gaunt
4. Calendar of Close Rolls. I have found no other record of the lands Katherine held in Leicester, Northamptonshire, and Norfolk prior to her marriage to John of Gaunt.
5. Calendar of Patent Rolls
6. A Collection of All the Wills…
7. Now number 2 Minster Yard. Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, Dean and Chapter Acts, Liber VI (i), ff.2, 3; Major; Jones, Major, Varley, and Johnson.
8. These measurements cannot have been taken very accurately, as the remains of the medieval hall measure 44 by 26 feet.
9. For the Priory, see Jones, Major, Varley, and Johnson; Major; Silva- Vigier; Pevsner and Harris; Jones, Four Minster Houses; Calendar of Patent Rolls.
10. Early Lincoln Wills. His name is also given as Peter Dalton.
11 Goodman, Katherine Swynford
12 Special Collections, S.C. 8; Exchequer Records, E. 403; Calendar of Patent Rolls
13 Chronicque de la Traïson et Mort de Richart Deux
14 Trokelowe
15 Goodman, Katherine Swynford
16 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Chute; Lucraft, Katherine Swynford
17 Calendar of Patent Rolls
18 Crow and Olsen
19 He was also required to surrender the Warwick lands to the King. Rotuli Parliamentorum.
20 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Exchequer Records, E. 28
21 Calendar of Patent Rolls
22 Lucraft, Katherine Swynford
23 The site is now occupied by the Henry VII Chapel.
24 The date usually given for Chaucer’s death, October 25, 1400, was inscribed on the Tudor tomb, and may well have been copied from the original epitaph plate that was displayed in the abbey. Chaucer’s bones were uncovered in 1889 when Robert Browning was buried in Poet’s Corner, and the coroner then estimated that he had been about five feet six inches tall. There are no grounds for accepting recent assertions that he was murdered on the orders of Henry IV (Jones, Who Murdered Chaucer).
25 Goodman, Honourable Lady; Calendar of Patent Rolls; Exchequer Records, E. 28
26 Goodman, Katherine Swynford. Perry suggests that the reference was to Sir Norman Swynford, but this is unlikely in view of evidence from the Exchequer Records that will shortly be cited in the text.
27 Bruce; Wylie; Beltz
28 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Given-Wilson, Royal Household
29 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 42
30 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 29
31 Blomefield and Parkin; Lucraft, Katherine Swynford; Perry
32 Norris
33 Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan;” Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres
34 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 42, DL. 49
35 Exchequer Records, E. 101; Calendar of Close Rolls
36 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Calendar of Close Rolls
37 Ibid.
38 Archaeological Journal, XXXI, London, 1874
39 Foedera
40 In 1406, Isabella married Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans. She died in childbirth in 1409.
41 Calendar of Patent Rolls
42 Harriss; McGrath
43 Calendar of Close Rolls
44 Walsingham
45 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 28
46 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Harriss
47 Rotuli Parliamentorum; Trokelowe; Walsingham
48 Exchequer Records, E. 404, E. 101; Goodman, Marriage of Henry IV
49 Calendar of Patent Rolls
50 Ibid.; Calendar of Close Rolls
51 Complete Peerage; Desiderata Curiosa; Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, Chapter Acts A. ii.29, ff. 2, 3
52 Harvey, “Catherine Swynford’s Chantry”
53 Duffy
54 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 29, DL. 42
55 Lucraft, “Missing From History;” Katherine Swynford; Goodman, Katherine Swynford. The Prerogative Court of Canterbury records are in the National Archives.
56 Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, Bj.2.10
57 Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan;” Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres
58 Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments; Jones, Major, Varley, and Johnson; Weir: English Aristocratic Pedigrees
59 Wickenden
60 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Goodman, Katherine Swynford
61 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Excerpta Historica
62 Lucraft, “Missing From History;” Katherine Swynford; A Collection of All the Wills…; Jamieson. The hospital was demolished in 1825.
63 Leese; Lambeth Palace ms. 20, f.173v; A Collection of All the Wills…
64 Hicks
65 Duffy; A Collection of All the Wills…
66 Harriss, for example
67 Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers; Cartae et Munimenta de Glamorgan; www.rootsweb.com; Verity, “A Non- Affair to Remember.” Joan married Sir Edward Stradling of St. Donat’s, Glamorganshire (1389-1453), by whom she had a son, Henry.
68 Vale. The portrait is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
69 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Calendar of Close Rolls
70 Calendar of Patent Rolls
71 Worcestre
72 Dictionary of National Biography
73 Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan;” Perry
74 Chronicles and Memorials of St. Edmund’s Abbey; Leese; Antiquarian Repertory
75 Lucraft, Katherine Swynford; Armitage-Smith; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan.” The book that Thomas Hoccleve dedicated to Joan is Cosin ms. V.iii.9 at Durham University.
76 Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres
77 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Harvey, “Catherine Swynford’s Chantry;” “Inventories of Plate;” Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan;” Given- Wilson; Collections Relative to … the Diocese of York
78 Harvey, “Catherine Swynford’s Chantry;” Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan”
79 Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan”
80 Duffy; Sandford; Harvey, “Catherine Swynford’s Ch
antry;” A Collection of All the Wills…; Goodman, Katherine Swynford. Her arms were noted around 1600 by Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald.
81 The Neville Book of Hours is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
82 Goodman, “Redoubtable Countess Joan”
83 www.english.upenn
84 English Historical Documents
85 Griffiths and Thomas
86 Perry; Goodall
87 Foedera
88 Perry
89 Calendar of Patent Rolls; Manly, Some New Light on Chaucer; Excerpta Historica
90 Hunter
91 Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
92 Cole. Thomas Beaufort left him 50 marks (£7,076) in his will.
93 Campling
94 Elder
95 Calendar of Patent Rolls
96 Excerpta Historica
97 Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
98 Cole
99 Ibid.
100 For Kettlethorpe, see www.kettlethorpe.com; Leese; Perry; Goodman, John of Gaunt; Katherine Swynford; Cole
101 Silva- Vigier; Lucraft, “Missing From History”
102 The epitaph was recorded by Weever. The Latin inscription was recorded by Anthony Munday in 1618, in his extended edition of Stow’s Survey of London.
103 Exchequer Records, E. 301; Dugdale, History of St. Paul’s
104 Holland
105 B. L. Lansdowne ms. 874, f.115
106 Benham
107 Dugdale, History of St. Paul’s
108 Sandford
109 Ibid.; Duffy
110 Arnold
111 Leland, Itinerary
112 Dugdale, “Book of Monuments”
113 Harvey, “Catherine Swynford’s Chantry;” Duffy; Goodman, Katherine Swynford
114 Duchy of Lancaster Records, DL. 43
115 John Evelyn, the seventeenth- century diarist, noted that “the soldiers had lately knocked off most of the brasses from the gravestones.”
116 Kendrick, Cathedral Church of Lincoln
117 Dugdale, Monasticon. A drawing of the repositioned tombs was made in 1809 by John Buckler (B.L. Additional ms. 36369, f.87), which is reproduced in Harvey, “Catherine Swynford’s Chantry.”
118 Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, AIV 15; Jones, Major, Varley, and Johnson
119 Payn Roët’s epitaph in St. Paul’s Cathedral, cited by Silva- Vigier
APPENDIX: ANYA SETON’S KATHERINE
1 The Austin Chronicle
2 Goodman, John of Gaunt
3 Cantor
4 The date is sometimes incorrectly given as 1904 or 1916.
5 Anya Seton’s personal papers are held in the archives of the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, and biographical details of her appear on many Internet sites; of these, I am indebted chiefly to “The Setons: The Setons at Home,” by Lucinda H. MacKethan of North Carolina State University (www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080).
6 BBC: The Big Read
7 “National Review Online,” www.nationalreview.com
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