The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King
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McMurrough, Art: 168
McNiven, Peter, historian: 8
Medford, Richard: 82
Melton, Geoffrey (d. c. 1411), physician: 80, 382, 443
Memel, River: 94, 98
Menowe, William: 391
Merevale Abbey: 249
Merks, Thomas (d. 1409), bishop of Carlisle (1397): 177, 180, 191, 206, 209, 296, 354, 418
Mersey, River: 290
Merton Priory: 347
Messendon, Thomas: 400
Meung: 346
Michaelchurch: 276
Middleton, John (d. 1429), physician: 382
Milan: 114, 134, 135, 137, 169; duke of: see Visconti
Milford Haven: 177, 305
Milton, Richard: 288
Mint, the: 382
Molyneux, Sir Thomas (d. 1387): 72, 142
Mone, Guy (d. 1407), bishop of St David’s (1397), treasurer (1398, 1402–3): 177, 204, 205, 254, 255, 261, 266
Monkswood: 292
Monmouth: 64, 65, 371, 395
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de (d. 1453), chronicler: 349
Montagu, John (d. 1400), earl of Salisbury (1397): 119, 142, 148, 151, 161, 179, 180, 203, 205, 208, 410, 413; see also Counter-Appellants
Montagu, Sir William (d. 1382): 34
Montcuq, battle of (1345): 23
Montendre, William: 13, 36, 391
Montfort, John de (1339–1399), duke of Brittany (1361): 133, 157; 245, 246
Montgomery, Sir John: 80
More, Thomas (d. 1421), treasurer of the household (1401–5): 234
Moreton-in-Marsh: 72
Morley, Sir Robert: 90
Mortimer, Edmund (1352–1381), third earl of March (1360): 12, 31, 34, 49
Mortimer, Sir Edmund (1376–1409): 68, 251, 252, 255, 261, 264, 288, 290, 366; Tripartite Indenture (1405): 290, 291
Mortimer, Edmund (1391–1425), fifth earl of March (1398): 12, 99, 153, 173, 183, 192, 208, 264, 273, 274, 288, 290, 414, 418; kidnapping by Lady Despenser (1405): 288
Mortimer, Elizabeth (1371–1417), Lady Percy: 173
Mortimer family: 32, 52, 63, 67, 68, 71, 137, 142, 184, 186, 232, 251, 291, 357, 366, 368, 396, 406
Mortimer, Sir Hugh (d. 1403): 442
Mortimer, Sir Hugh (d. 1416): 318
Mortimer, Philippa (1375–1401), countess of Arundel (1390): 130
Mortimer, Roger (1287–1330), first earl of March (1328): 10, 20, 40, 77, 166, 398, 400, 419
Mortimer, Roger (1374–1398), fourth earl of March (1381): 19, 31, 49, 52, 68, 75, 83, 99, 119, 123, 142, 148, 151, 153; 183; 366; 368
Mortimer, Roger (1393–c. 1411), brother of the fifth earl of March: 153, 288
Mortimer, Sir Thomas: 71, 142, 144, 153, 397, 410
Mortlake: 321, 322, 347
Mount Hyddgen, battle of (1401): 240
Mowbray, Blanche (d. 1409), Lady Poynings: 390
Mowbray, John (d. 1383), earl of Nottingham (1377): 26, 27, 33, 49
Mowbray, Thomas (d. 1399), earl of Nottingham (1383), duke of Norfolk (1397): 26, 33, 49, 56, 59, 72, 74, 86”8, 102, 118, 120, 131, 139, 142, 147, 358, 386, 397, 398, 403, 404, 408, 409, 411, 412; see also Lords Appellant; Counter-Appellants; role in death of duke of Gloucester: 138, 143, 145, 148, 149, 153, 200, 412
Mowbray, Thomas (1385–1405), earl of Norfolk (1399): 293, 304
Murz, River: 108
music and musicians: 37, 41, 46, 47, 73, 96, 97, 99, 101, 109, 127, 220, 347, 355, 359, 360, 393, 402, 403, 407
Naas: 239
Nakerer, John: 407
Nantes: 259, 425
Navarre: 341, 439; kings of: see Charles II; Charles III
Navarton (an esquire): 400
Neisse, River: 106, 107
Nele, John: 283
Nesbit Moor, battle of (1402): 252
Neukirchen: 108
Neville, Alexander (d. 1392), archbishop of York (1374–88): 71, 72, 77, 82, 102
Neville, John (d. 1388), Lord Neville (1367): 30, 31
Neville, John (1382–1430), Lord Latimer (1395): 195
Neville, Ralph (d. 1425), Lord Neville (1388), earl of Westmorland (1397): 170, 171, 176, 186, 195, 197, 254, 264, 275, 282, 287, 293, 306, 321, 332, 334, 343, 357, 418, 429; failed creation as earl of Cumberland: 60, 61
Neville, Thomas (d. 1407), Lord Furnival (1383), treasurer (1404): 287, 429
Newbridge: 73
Newcastle upon Tyne: 80, 224, 275, 304, 321, 394
Newenham Priory: 265, 378
Newmarket: 377
Newstead Priory: 380, 381, 435
Nicholls, Benedict (d. 1433), bishop of Bangor (1408), bishop of St David’s (1418): 331
Nicopolis Crusade: 131, 135, 137, 407, 408
Nigarelis, David (d. 1312), physician: 322, 382, 383
Norbury John (d. 1414), esquire, treasurer (1399–1402): 94, 160, 171, 191, 200, 237, 256, 282, 324, 340, 356, 413
Norfolk, countess and duchess of: see Margaret; earl and duke of: see Mowbray
North Sea: 94
Northallerton: 224
Northampton: 72, 225, 283, 378, 381, 397, 423
Northampton, John, mayor of London: 55, 61
Northumberland, earl of: see Percy, Henry
Norton St Philip: 236, 237
Norway, king of: see Eric
Norwich: 285, 377; bishop of: see Tottington, Alexander
Notley Abbey: 74, 397
Nottingham: 35, 51, 69, 70, 80, 139, 266, 275, 284, 294, 295, 314, 315, 319, 320, 378, 409, 415, 426, 433, 435; earls of: see Mowbray
Nuneaton: 129, 158, 413
Oakham: 124
oaths of loyalty: 276
Oder, River: 106, 107
Offley: 249, 250
Okehampton: 259
Old Hall manuscript: 47
ordinances of 1386–7, 68, 141
Orléans, duchess of: see Visconti, Valentina; duke of: see Louis
Ormiston Castle: 264, 265
Ormond, earls of: see Butler
Ostrevant, count of: 131, 160
Oswestry: 152, 227
Otterburn, battle of (1388): 79, 80
Otto (1320–1398), duke of Brunswick (1351): 412
Ottoman Empire: 131
Ouse, River: 315, 320, 380
Oxford: 65, 73, 74, 80, 175, 207, 208, 249, 250, 382, 397; countesses of: see de Vere, Margaret; Philippa; earl of: see de Vere, Robert; University of: 236, 324, 335
paintings: 16, 107
Palaeologus: see Manuel II
papacy: 14, 161; see also popes; antipope
Paris: 21, 29, 46, 115, 160, 163, 168, 170, 210, 216, 231, 256, 317, 324, 341, 359, 412; Hôtel de Clisson: 160, 162, 166, 167; Hôtel de St Pol: 160, 317; rue Barbette: 317; University of: 46, 161, 356
parliamentary commissions: to reform the royal household (1385): 60, 61, 63; to supervise Richard’s rule (1386–7): see ordinances of 1386–7; to receive petitions and judge Henry (1398): 151, 167; to examine the royal accounts (‘war treasurers’, 1404): 280, 281; to examine royal grants since 1367 (1404): 287; to examine the royal accounts (1406): 309
parliaments (at Westminster unless otherwise stated): 1376, April (the Good Parliament): 30; 1383, October: 51, 52; 1384, April (Salisbury): 52; 1385, October: 59, 63, 366, 367; 1386, October (the Wonderful Parliament): 64, 189, 366, 367, 396; 1388, February (the Merciless Parliament): 76, 83, 102, 142, 150, 196; 1388, September (Cambridge): 80, 85, 398, 399; 1390, January: 85; 1391, November: 99, 100; 1394, January: 118; 1395, January: 126; 1397, January: 134; 1397, September (the Revenge Parliament): 139, 169, 196, 200, 201, 204; 1398, January (Shrewsbury): 147; 1399, September (assembly): 179, 181, 186; 1399, October: 192, 195, 218, 416; described as ‘the Merciful Parliament’: 204; 1400, October (summoned to York; did not meet): 225; 1401, January: 230, 232, 240; 1402, September: 253; 1404, January: 277, 286, 311; 1404, October (Coventry, the Unlearned Parliament): 286, 287, 309, 330; 1406, March (the Long Parliament): 306, 316, 369, 377, 431, 434; 1407, October (Gloucester): 314, 361, 434; 1410, January: 328; 1411: November:
303, 338; 1413: February (did not meet): 347
Passenham: 41
Pay, Henry (fl. 1402–1414), shipmaster: 286
Peasants’ Revolt (1381): 1, 13, 37, 38, 48, 71, 208, 298
Pedro the Cruel (1334–1369), king of Castile and Léon (1349): 25, 27, 84
Pelham, Sir John (d. 1429), chamber knight, treasurer (1411–13): 172, 287, 341, 350, 429
Peloponnese: 110
Pembroke Castle: 210
Percy family: 174, 255, 264, 274, 280, 283, 284; manifesto (1403): 217, 218, 269, 275, 420, 422; rebellion of (1403): 261, 293, 356, 357, 378
Percy, Henry (1341–1408), Lord Percy (1368), earl of Northumberland (1377): 52, 71, 171—3, 176, 178, 186, 191, 194, 196, 197, 203, 217, 247, 253, 254, 261, 275, 276, 279, 284, 296, 310, 318, 333, 416, 417, 420; last stand of (1408): 318; role in the Yorkshire Rising (1405): 293, 300, 303, 304, 319; Tripartite Indenture (1405): 290, 291
Percy, Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ (1364–1403): 26, 33, 79, 88, 90, 99, 125, 172, 173, 176, 238, 240, 247, 252, 253, 255, 261, 271, 333, 375, 442; blamed in part by Henry for the fall of Conway: 241, 263
Percy, Henry (1393–1455), later earl of Northumberland (1416): 304
Percy, Sir Ralph (d. 1397): 26, 33, 80
Percy, Thomas (1343–1403), earl of Worcester (1397), steward of household (1401–2): 102, 141, 142, 148, 177, 201, 205, 210, 234, 247, 254, 259, 269, 272, 273, 275, 416, 442
Percy, Thomas (d. 1388): 26, 33, 80
Perigord: 242; count of: 242
Perrers, Alice: 22, 26, 30, 31, 34
Persay, Sir Robert: 294
Peterborough: 99, 117, 127, 372, 405, 411
Pevensey: 172
Peverel, Thomas (d. 1419), bishop of Worcester (1407): 331
Philip the Bold (1342–1404), duke of Burgundy (1363): 103, 134, 160, 170, 259, 283, 317, 415, 421
Philippa of Hainault (1314–1369), queen of England (1328): 24, 25, 40
Philippa (1355–1380), countess of March (1368): 31, 390
Philippa (1367–1411), countess of Oxford (1376), duchess of Ireland (1386): 56, 398
Philippa of Lancaster (1360–1415), queen of Portugal (1387): 26, 27, 41, 84, 121, 159, 162, 390
Philippa of Lancaster (1394–1430), queen of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (1406): 121, 305, 307, 309, 372, 431
physicians: 26, 94, 154, 162, 206, 302, 307, 308, 322, 325, 382, 383
Picardy: 172, 415
Pickering Castle: 172, 176
Pilleth: 251
Pisa: 325
plague: 25, 301
play about the Creation: 326
Pleshey: 138, 208, 259
Plumpton, Sir William (d. 1405): 294, 296
Plymouth: 62, 84, 129, 170, 277
Plympton: 129, 407
poetry: 127, 128; see also Chaucer; Gower; Hoccleve
Poitiers, battle of (1356): 22, 30, 34
Pol, Master: 206
Poland: 94, 105, 106, 111, 114
poll tax: 13
Polschken: 106
Pontefract Castle: 122, 127, 129, 155, 172, 175, 182, 203, 211, 216, 218, 224, 275, 276, 284, 285, 293, 295, 321, 379, 380, 381, 421, 435
pope: see Boniface IX; John XXIII; see also antipope Portogruaro: 109
Portugal: 159; king of: João I
Powderham: 286
Prague: 107, 108, 116, 404
presents: see gift-giving
Prittlewell, John: 208
privy council: see council
privy seal, keepers of: see Clifford, Richard; Langley, Thomas; Bubwith, Nicholas; Prophet, John
prophecy: 20, 164, 177, 192, 250, 276, 291, 294, 361, 430; Prophecy of the Six Kings: 21, 250, 290, 300, 389; Prophecy of the Oil of St Thomas: 195, 235
Prophet, John (d. 1416), Henry’s secretary (1402–5), keeper of the privy seal (1406–15): 324, 334, 341
prostitutes: 16, 206
Provisors, Statute of (1390): 85, 100
Prudhoe Castle: 303
Prussia: 89, 94, 104, 105, in, 127, 159, 402
Putzig: 94, 105
Pwll Melyn: see Usk, battle of
Queenborough: 55, 56, 74, 437
Querry, Thomas: 400
Rabe, Engelhard, marshal of the Teutonic Knights: 94, 96, 98, 105
Radcot Bridge: 73, 74, 142, 147, 149, 223, 266, 397, 399
Ragnit: 94
Rakyer, John: 331
Ramah: 112
Ramsay, Sir James Henry (1832–1925), baronet, historian: 4
Ravendale: 426
Ravenspur: 171, 177, 188, 415
Reading: 84, 400
Recoches, Louis, physician: 307, 382
Redesdale: 244
Reede, Henry: 82
Rehoboam: 50, 394
Reigate: 71, 169
Rempston, Sir Thomas (d. 1406), steward of the household (1399–1401): 94, 95, 160, 171, 234, 238, 256, 3:4, 402
Rennes, siege of (1356): 23, 171
Repingdon, Philip (c. 1345–1424), abbot of Leicester (1394–1404), bishop of Lincoln (1404–19): 236, 237, 239, 323, 324, 424 431
Repton: 315, 380
Revesby Abbey: 284
Revolt of the Earls (1400): see Epiphany Rising
Rhineland: 247; counts of: see Rupert; Louis
Rhodes: 110, 114, 404
Rhuddlan: 180, 227
Rhys, Antony and John: 247
Richard I (1157–1199), king of England (1189): 111, 360
Richard II, ‘Richard of Bordeaux’ (1367–1400), prince of Wales and Aquitaine (1376), king of England (1377–99): 2, 5: “, ia, 30, 60, 61, 65, 66, 75, 76, 394; abdication: 174, 183, 186, 191, 200, 368, 439; absolutism: 135, 136, 141, 150, 164, 168, 196, 200, 359, 364; adoption of Edward of York as his brother: see Edward of York; ancestry and inheritance: 20, 24, 31; arrival in England: 27; attempts to escape after capture: 181; attempt to rescue him in 1400: see Epiphany Rising; attitude to succession: see succession; birth: 19, 24, 364; capture in 1399, 179, 180; character and angry outbursts: 9, 34, 48, 49, 54, 57, 63, 76, 136, 137, 142, 149, 153, 158, 159, 164, 280, 283, 390; comparisons with Edward II: 50, 51, 67, 137, 175, 398; coronation: 35; councils: see councils, privy; death: 199, 210, 258, 269, 298, 318, 350, 420; deposition of: 19, 66, 67, 72, 74, 75, 183, 186, 189; education: 47, 48; entailment of the throne by (1388): 167, 366, 368, 369; execution, calls for his: 199; falsification of records of parliament: 190; finds oil of St Thomas: 195; foreign policy: see France, Ireland, Milan, Scotland; funeral of: 216, 219, 220, 322, 420; hopes of being Holy Roman Emperor: 137; illegitimacy, question of: 24, 187; in Ireland (1394–5, 1399): 120, 125, 126, 128, 168, 171, 175, 369; keeper of the realm (1373): 30; kingship: 12, 35, 36, 53, 56, 65, 117, 197, 220; see also absolutism; knighted: 33, 34; loss of his first wife: 121, 122; marriage to Isabella of France: 131, 133, 134, 229; murders the duke of Gloucester: 139, 143, 145, 146, 158, 201, 202, 211, 253, 358; during the Peasants’ Revolt: 14, 37, 38, 48, 136, 137; personal rule commences (1389): 83; plot to seize him in Carmarthen (1399): 177; rejects limitations on his authority: 100, 102; relationship with Henry: 7, 18, 22, 28, 32, 33, 37, 45, 52, 55, 63, 69, 74”6, 82, 83, 85, 89, 102, 104, 106, 117, 123”5, 129, 131 133, 137, 141, 145, 146, 149”52, 155, 158, 161”4, 166, 200, 218, 348, 352, 353, 358, 363, 366, 392, 403, 410, 413; relationship with John of Gaunt: see John; rumours of survival after 1400, 9, 248, 266, 281, 297, 319, 359, 420; supposed madness in 1397: 136; taxation policy: 53, 56, 61, 65, 83, 120, 134, 135, 152, 160; will (1399): 367, 369
Richard II: see Shakespeare
Richard III (1452–1485), king of England (1483): 9
Richard of Conisburgh (d. 1415), later earl of Cambridge (1414): 122, 191, 369
Rickhill, Sir William (d. 1407), justice: 205
Ripon: 300, 302
Rixhöft: 94, 98
Robert I (1274–1329), king of Scots (1306): 222, 415, 422
Robert III (d. 1406), king of Scotland (1390): 198, 221, 241, 243, 307, 422, 423
Rochester: 134, 403; bishop of: see Brinton, Thomas
Ro
chford Hall: 39, 41
Rochford, Sir Ralph (d. c. 1440), chamber knight: 94, 104, 401
Roet, Katherine: see Swynford, Katherine
Roet, Philippa: see Chaucer, Philippa
Rokeby, Sir Thomas (d. 1418): 320, 321
Rome: 131, 247, 254
Romsey Abbey: 328
Roos, William (d. 1414), Lord Roos (1394): 254, 280, 341
Roses, Wars of the: 1, 273, 375
Ross-on-Wye: 178
Rotherhithe: 15, 336, 343
Rothesay, duke of: see Stewart, David
Rothwell, Rothwellhaigh: 379, 412, 435
Roye, Renaud de: 85, 87, 88, 131, 154
Rupert (1352–1410), palatinate count of the Rhine (1398), Holy Roman Emperor (1400): 237, 245, 247, 253, 261, 302, 326
Russell, Sir John (d. 1405): 87, 151
Russell, John, author: 127
Russia, Russians: 95, 105, 127
Ruthin: 225
Rutland: 124; earl of: see Edward of York
Sabato, Elias de, physician: 383
Saimpy, Jean de: 85, 87, 88, 131, 401
St Agnes: 110
St Albans: 74, 128, 291, 320, 378, 397; Abbey: 37, 223, 328; abbot of: 409
St Anthony: 110
St Asaph, bishop of: see Trevor, John
St Augustine: 114
St Bartholomew’s, Smithfield, prior of: 332
St Christopher: 110, 154
St-Cloud: 341
St David’s, bishop of: see Chichele, Henry; Mone, Guy
St-Denis, Abbey of: 86, 170, 183
St Edward: see Edward the Confessor
St George: 95, 97, 98, 104, 107, 109, 110, 112, 156, 198, 257, 269, 320, 321, 412; see also Garter, Order of the
St-Hilaire, Marie de: 390
St Inglevert tournament: 85, 94, 98, 107, 131, 262, 327, 400, 401
St John, Nicholas: 400
St John the Baptist: 413
St Lucy: 110
St Ludmilla: 107
St Mark: 109, 100, 114, 404
St Nicholas: 110
St-Omer: 133, 292, 408
St Oswald: 309, 310
St Osyth: 283
St Pol, count of: see Waleran; countess of: see Holland, Maud
St Simplicius: 385
St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas Becket): 195, 296, 297
St Vitus: 107, 108
Saladin (1137–93), sultan of Egypt and Syria: 111 476
Salisbury: 53, 54, 129, 260; see also parliaments
Salisbury, bishop of: see Hallum, Robert; Waltham, John; earl of: see Montagu, John
Salisbury, Sir John (d. 1388): 66, 78
Salutation, the: 220