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Index
Adam (illegitimate child of Edward II) 35
Aldenhan, Roger de 48
Annals of St Paul 128
‘Anointed Ones’ of Westminster 3
Arnold, Cardinal 54
Arthurian legends 20, 112, 144–5, 177
Articles of Deposition 23, 111
Arundel, Earl of 71
Aylmer, William 115, 123–5, 219
Badlesmere, Bartholomew 68, 70, 71, 74
Baldock, Robert 195
Bannockburn, Battle of 59–60
Baret, Lady 75
Baret, Stephen 75
Bayouse, Bogo 152, 163, 201
Beaukaire, William 137, 222
Beaumont, Henry 49, 79, 149
Beaumont, Louis de 61–2, 78
Bec, Anthony 40, 61
Becket’s tomb, pilgrimage to 2, 25, 50, 170
Bellers, Robert 89
Benedetti, Anna 189–92
Beresford, Simon de 158, 161, 163, 164, 196, 197
Berkeley Castle 116, 118, 120–1, 122, 142, 198
Berkeley, Maurice 72, 81
Berkeley, Thomas
after escape of Edward II 221
carries out repairs to castle 122–3
excuses for death of Edward II 129–30, 164–6, 230–2
is keeper of Edward II 115–16, 137, 138
t
reatment after fall of Mortimer 158, 168
Betton, Richard de 86
Black Prince 175, 177
Bliton, Richard 93
Blunt, Sir Thomas 112
Bohun, Humphrey 158
Bohun, William 158
Boniface VIII, Pope 13, 17
Braose, William de 29
Bridlington Chronicle 129
Brotherton, Thomas (Earl of Norfolk) 90, 145, 175, 194
Bruce, David 142, 175
Bruce, Robert (Robert the Bruce)
against Edward I 8, 19–20, 32
against Edward II 51, 61, 76
attempts to capture Isabella 62
at Battle of Bannockburn 59
on Edward II 40
invades Ireland 85
long campaign of 50
secret agreement with Isabella 108
victory of 142
Brut Chronicle 151, 185, 221, 227, 228
Burghesh, Henry 157, 161
Bury, Richard 157, 158
Butler, James 202
Cambridge University 5
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) 2
Catholic Church 6–7
see also Boniface VIII, Pope; Clement V, Pope; John XXII, Pope;
Urban V, Pope Cecime Sopra
Voghera 190
Celano, Thomas de 1
Charles IV, King of France (Isabella’s brother) 64, 79, 80, 83, 88, 89, 97
Charnay, Geoffrey de 58
Chaucer, Geoffrey 2, 20, 21, 208
Chronicles of Edward II (Stubbs) 189
Church 6–7, 157–8
civil war (1321) 69–81, 85–6
Clement V, Pope 18, 41, 55, 58
Clinton, William 158
Corfe Castle 146, 151, 152, 200, 201–2
coronation of Edward II 45–6
Culpepper, Walter 71
Cuttino, G. P. 191–2
Cysterne, Robert de 23
Darel, Edmund 63–4
de Spencer see Spencer
Deaux, Gaucelm de 188–9
Deverel, John 152, 163, 201
Donald of Mar 116
Douglas, Earl of 177–8
Douglas, James 62
Dubois, Peter 12
Dunheved gang 115, 121–5, 217–19
Dunheved, Stephen 115, 124, 150
Dunheved, Thomas 88, 115, 124, 217, 231
Durell, Sir Richard 167
Eaglescliffe, John 139
Eastry, Henry 103
Eastwick, John 140
Edmund of Kent see Kent, Edmund Earl of
Eduardo II (Benedetti) 190
Edward I, King
against marriage of Edward and Isabella 15–16, 17, 18–19, 32