Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England

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by Louise J. Wilkinson

Life of 45

  Abingdon, William of, friar 68

  Acaster, Roger of 9, 141n

  Acre, John of, butler of France 129

  Adelaide, wife of Arnoul (III), Count of Loos and Graf of Rieneck 19, 145n

  Adomar, Count of Angoulême 3

  wife of see Courtenay, Alice de

  Agnes of Meran, Queen of France 62

  husband of see Philip Augustus

  Aldobrandesca, Margherita 133

  husband of see Montfort, Guy de

  Alexander II, King of Scotland 8, 18–19, 141n, 144n

  sisters of see Margaret; Marjorie

  wife of see Joan, sister of King Henry III

  Alexander III, King of Scotland 29, 81

  wife of see Margaret, daughter of King Henry III

  Alfonso VIII, King of Castile 27

  wife of see Eleanor

  Alice of France, Countess of Ponthieu 146n

  Alice, Lady, nurse of Eleanor of Provence 90

  Almain, Henry of, son of Earl Richard of Cornwall 98, 166n

  captivity after battle of Lewes 103, 105, 106

  murder 33–4

  wife of see Béarn, Constance de

  almsgiving 58–9, 85, 117–18, 118–19, 123–4

  Alphonse, Count of Poitiers 81, 104

  Alrewas, Staffs 84

  Amesbury, Wilts, priory 113

  prioress of 113

  Amiens, Somme, France, Mise of (1264) 103

  Andrew the Butler 118

  Angeli, Brother J. 119

  Angoulême see Isabella

  Angoulême, Count of see Adomar

  Anjou, Charles of 130, 133, 134, 182n

  Annandale, Scotland, 114

  Apulia 74

  Aquitaine see Eleanor

  Archer, Rowena 64

  Arcy, Philippa d’, wife of Ralph 120, 178n

  Arcy, Ralph d’ 120, 128, 175n, 178n

  Arden, Richard of 107

  Arienzo, Caserta, Italy 133

  Arnoul (III), Count of Loos, Graf of Rieneck 19

  wife of see Adelaide

  Arthur, Duke of Brittany, son of Geoffrey 139n

  Arundel, Countess of see Aubigny, Isabella d’

  Asaji, Keizo xii

  Ash, Thomas of 101

  Assisi, St Francis of 12

  Astley, Thomas of 114

  Atripalda, Avellino, Italy 133

  Aubigny, Isabella d’, Countess of Arundel 45

  Aubigny, Philip d’ 9

  Aumale, Counts of 26, 31, 35, 148n

  Avellino, Italy 133

  Avranches, Master Henry of 9–10

  Awre, Glos 49

  Axholme, Lincs, Isle of 127

  Badgeworth, Glos 39, 49, 51

  park 157n

  Baldwin (IX), Count of Flanders, daughter of see Joan, Countess of Flanders

  Balliol, Ingelram de 120

  Balliol, John de 99

  Barons’ War (1263–5) xi–xiv, 103–25

  Basset, Gilbert 43

  Basset, Philip, royal justiciar 100, 112, 174n, 179n

  Bath, Hugh of 151n

  Béarn, Constance, daughter of Gaston 134

  husband of see Almain, Henry of

  Beauchamp family, Earls of Warwick 147n

  Beaujeu, Alice of, daughter of Guichard 146n

  Beaujeu, Guichard of 22, 146n

  wife of see Hainaut, Sibyl of

  Beaulieu, Hants, abbey 166n

  Beaumont, Adam de 144n

  Beaumont, Amicia de 61

  Beaumont, Robert (IV) de, Earl of Leicester 61

  Beauvais, Vincent of, De eruditione filiorum nobilium of 142n

  Becket, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 37, 121

  Bedford, Archdeacon of see Hecham (alias Heyham), Master Nicholas de

  Bémont, Charles 124

  Bere Regis, Dors 170n

  Berenguela, Queen of Castile 138n

  Berkhamsted, honour of 36

  Berkhamsted, Herts, castle, constable of 4

  Bernwood forest 44, 57, 157n

  Béthune, Alice de, daughter of Baldwin 26, 32, 35, 148n

  Betteshanger, John of 175n

  Bezill, Mathias 53

  Bigod, Hugh, Earl of Norfolk 34

  wife of see Marshal, Matilda

  Bigod, Hugh, justiciar 101

  Bigod, Roger, Earl of Norfolk 51, 79, 154n

  Bigorre, Countess of see Montfort, Petronilla de

  Bigorre, France 169n, 170n, 182n

  Birrel, J. 152n

  Biset, Manasser 142n

  Biset, Margaret 11, 142n

  Blaauw, William H. xi–xii

  Blanche of Castile, Queen of France 10, 92, 142n

  Bluet (or Bloet) family 156n

  Bluet (or Bloet), Ralph 52, 54

  Bluet (or Bloet), William 51, 54, 154n, 155n

  Bodiham, Simon of 175n

  Bohun, Humphrey de, Earl of Hereford and Essex 161n

  Bohun, Matilda de 78, 164n

  husband of see Marshal, Anselm

  Bolett, messenger of Countess Eleanor 118

  Bordeaux, Gironde, France, Dominican priory, chapel of St Peter the Apostle in 84

  Bosellis, Brother Gregory de, friar 82, 166n

  Bosham, Sussex 47, 153n, 154n

  Boulogne, Count of 145n

  Boulogne, Countess of see Mahaut (II)

  Bouvines, Nord, France, battle of (1214) 3, 19

  Boyon, Brother G. 13, 119

  Brabant, Duke of see Louvain, Henry de

  Brabourne, Kent 28, 41, 51, 117, 123, 135, 151n

  Braden forest 57, 157n

  Bradenstoke, Wilts, priory 149n

  Bramber, Sussex, castle 175n

  Brech, Andrew de la 77, 156n, 163n

  Bretun, Richard le 176n

  Brill, South Holland, Netherlands 163

  Brindisi, Apulia, Italy 74, 162n

  Briouze, William de 107

  Briouze, William de, son of Reginald 34

  Briouze, William de, son of William 107, 118

  nurse of see Isabella

  wife of see Marshal, Eva

  Bristol, Glos 6

  castle 4, 58

  Friars Preacher of, prior of see Walter

  St Augustine’s Abbey in 140n

  Bristol, Bonevie of, Jew 40–1

  Bristol, Lynn of, Jew 40

  Brittany, Counts and Dukes of 30, 144n

  see Arthur; Dreux, Peter of

  Brittany, Eleanor of, daughter of Geoffrey 9, 47, 58, 152n

  Bromhall, Berks, priory 165n

  Brus, Agnes de, 174n

  husband of see Fauconberg, Walter de

  Brus, Robert de 114, 120, 177n

  Buckden, Cambs 81

  Buckholt forest 150n

  Burgh, Hubert de, Earl of Kent, justiciar 18, 19, 20, 21–2, 24, 25, 36, 40, 51, 57, 141n, 144n, 146n, 154n

  fall of 41–2

  nephew of 22

  wife of see Margaret, sister of King Alexander II

  Burgh, Raymond de 36

  Burgh, Richard de 36, 41

  Burgundy, Duke of 101

  Burstal, Ralph de 101

  Burton, J. de 120

  Burton, Peter de, and his wife 120, 121, 177n, 178n

  Caerleon, Monm 23

  Canterbury, Archbishops of see Abingdon, Edmund of; Becket, Thomas; Langton, Stephen

  Canterbury, Kent 53, 84, 86, 101, 121

  Christ Church cathedral priory in 37, 38, 57, 58

  St Augustine’s Abbey in 24

  Canterbury, Master Ralph of 84

  Cantilupe, Mabel de 44, 152n

  Cantilupe, Thomas de, baronial chancellor 113, 114

  Cantilupe, Walter de, Bishop of Worcester 82, 101, 106, 114, 166n

  Cardigan, Card, castle 22

  Carlisle, Bishop of 154n, 161n

  Carmarthen, Carm, castle 22

  Carpenter, David 21

  Cartmel, Lancs, priory 32

  Castel Cicala, Nola, Italy 133

  Castile see Blanche; Eleanor

  Casti
le, King of see Alfonso VIII

  Castile, Queens of see Berenguela; Eleanor

  Castile, St Dominic of 12

  Caversham, Oxon 49, 112

  Chabnais, Esquivat de 169n, 170n

  Chalton, Hants 114

  Champagne, Count of see Thibaut (V)

  Châteaurenard, Bouches-du-Rhône, France 3

  Chelefeld’, Simon de 52

  chess 59

  Chester, Earl of see Ranulf (III)

  Chichester, Bishop of see Neville, Ralph de

  Chichester, Sussex 118

  Chilham, Robert of 175n

  Chippenham, Wilts 77

  Christopher, clerk of Countess Eleanor 110

  Chronica majora by Matthew Paris 38

  Chute forest 39, 44, 47, 55, 56, 57, 86, 157n

  Chute, Wilts 55

  Cigogné, Engelard de 167n

  Cilgerran, Pemb, castle 22

  Cinque Ports 66, 111, 120

  warden of see Montfort, Henry de

  Clare, Bogo de 119

  Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1230), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford 34, 35–6, 159n

  wife of see Marshal, Isabella

  Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1295), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford 109, 119

  Clare, Isabella de, daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert, Countess of Pembroke 17–18, 32, 33, 34, 149n

  husband of see Marshal, William (senior)

  Clare, Matilda de, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, wife of Richard 112

  Clare, Richard de, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford 36, 66, 78, 79, 98, 99, 102, 164n

  Clarendon forest 57, 150n, 157n

  Clarendon, Wilts, palace 77

  Clatford, Upper, Hants 49, 50

  Clement IV, Pope 128–9, 132, 181n

  Cleybroke, Simon, vicar of 182n

  Clifford, Roger de 52

  cloth, clothing and furs 6, 9, 10, 38, 58, 59, 69–70, 85, 113, 115, 118, 122, 123, 125, 140n, 167n, 175n, 176n

  church views on 12–13

  Colin the Farrier 118

  Colin the Marshal 118

  Collingbourne Ducis, Wilts 54

  Compton, Long, Warw 49

  Constable, Fulk 117–18, 120, 176n

  Corbet, Robert 120, 175n

  Corfe, Dors, castle 4, 5, 8, 139n, 173n

  Cornwall, Earl of see Richard

  Courtenay family 28

  Courtenay, Alice de, wife of (1) Andrew of La Ferté-Gaucher, (2) William of Joigny, (3) Adomar, Count of Angoulême 3, 28, 138n.

  Courtenay, Peter de, Latin Emperor 137n

  Courtenay, Robert de 25, 27–8, 148n

  wife of see Vernon, Marion de

  Courtenay, Robert de, son of Robert 148n

  Coventry, Brother Gregory of 119

  Coventry, Brother Walter of 119

  Craiwell, Christiana de, damsel 90, 118, 175n, 176n

  Crek, Bartholomew de 54, 156n

  Crek, Margery de 112, 113, 174n

  Crendon, Long, Bucks 50, 51

  Crevequer, Thomas de 175n

  Crouch, David 23, 34

  Crowcombe, Godfrey of 154n

  crusades 61, 70–1, 73–4, 87, 89, 92, 133, 134, 151n, 161n, 162n, 170n

  Daglingworth, Glos 52

  damsels 59, 90, 117, 118, 175n, 176n

  David, Earl of Huntingdon 18, 144n

  Derby, Earl of see Ferrers, William de

  Desford, Leics, 87

  Desford, Walter of 87

  Despenser, Hugh de, justiciar 107

  slain at Evesham (1265) 123

  wife of 113, 124, 174n

  Deusaye, son of Isaac of Winchester, Jew 40

  Devon, Countess of see Forz, Isabella de

  Dikering, Yorks, wapentake 176n

  Dilwyn, Heref 170n

  Diqon, messenger of Countess Eleanor 118

  disparagement 21–4, 47

  Dover, Kent, 81, 125, 176n

  castle xiii, 103, 105, 106, 109, 110, 116–17, 118, 119–22, 123, 124, 127, 128, 135, 176n, 178n, 182n

  constable of see Montfort, Henry de

  surrender of (1265) 115–16, 125, 175n

  hospital of, prior of 120, 124

  Dover, John of, and his wife 120

  dower 6, 7, 38–41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49–51, 68, 70, 75–6, 78–80, 92, 98, 99–100, 103, 106–7, 130, 135, 136, 151n, 152n, 154n, 155n, 163n, 164–5n, 172–3n, 183n

  Dreux, Count of see Robert

  Dreux, Peter of, Count of Brittany 61n

  drink see food

  Druval, Mabel de 59–60, 163n

  Dublin, Ireland, Archbishop of 25

  see also Luke

  Dublin, Ireland, St Thomas’s Abbey in 32

  Duisk, Ireland, abbey 32

  Dumas, Ireland 50

  Dunstable, Beds, priory 167n

  annalist of 20, 26, 106, 128, 145n, 167n, 182n

  Earley, John of 22

  Easingwold, Yorks 170n

  Edmund, son of Earl Richard of Cornwall 115, 175n

  Edmund, son of King Henry III 92, 95, 127

  education 8, 9–11, 58, 89

  Edward I (the Lord Edward), King of England xii, 59, 91, 95, 98, 101, 102, 103, 109, 115–16, 120, 123, 124, 125, 127, 133, 134, 135, 136, 168n, 182n, 183n

  accession 134

  birth 6, 29

  baptism 70

  captivity after battle of Lewes 103, 105, 106, 111, 114, 115

  crusade 133, 134

  escape from Montfortian custody (1265) 109, 110, 112, 114, 116

  wives of see Eleanor of Castile; Margaret of France

  Eleanor, daughter of King Henry II, wife of King Alfonso VIII of Castile 27

  Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England, wife of King Henry II 2, 4, 27, 142n

  Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, wife of King Edward I 105

  Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England, daughter of Count Raymond-Berengar (V) of Provence, wife of King Henry III 11, 15, 29, 58, 64, 69, 86–7, 89–90, 130, 138n, 157n, 165n, 168n

  churching 6, 71

  coronation 57, 62

  exile 104, 105, 128, 180n

  marriage 57–8, 62

  nurse of see Alice

  religious and literary interests 10, 84

  Savoyard relations of 70, 92

  see also Margaret of Provence, Provence, Sanchia of; Savoy, Beatrice of; Savoy, Peter of; Savoy, Thomas of; Savoy, William of

  Eleanor, sister of King Henry III, wife of (1) William Marshal (junior), (2) Simon de Montfort xi–xiv, 107, 109, 140n, 150n, 153n, 157n, 167n, 172n, 178n, 181–2n

  birth 2, 5–6

  building work by 55, 86

  character 12–13, 15

  childhood and upbringing, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 58

  correspondence, 107–8, 112–15, 118, 133

  with Adam Marsh 12–13, 15, 73, 80–2, 83–4, 87, 89, 90, 165n, 178n

  with King Edward I (the Lord Edward) 111, 124

  with King Henry III 124

  with Earl Simon 111, 122

  with Simon (junior) 112, 122, 124

  dealings with Jews 40–1, 76

  death 135–6

  tomb 1, 137n

  households 9, 25, 31, 51–8, 82–3, 85–6, 156n, 163n

  (in 1265) xi–xiii, 107–8, 109–25

  clerks of see Christopher; Eudes

  damsels of 59, 117, 118, 176n see also Craiwell, Christiana de, Watham, A. de, Wortham, Hawise de

  messengers of see Bolett; Diqon; Gobithest; Slingwai; Wilecok

  servant of see Garbag

  inheritance in Angoulême 104, 132, 181n

  lineage 1–2

  Marshal marriage 17, 20–36

  consummation of 28–9, 30

  Montfort marriage 61–72, 159n, 160n

  chief executor of Earl Simon’s will 97, 132

  children of see Montfort, Amaury de; Montfort, Eleanor de; Montfort, Guy de; Montfort, Henry de; Montfort, Richard de; Montfort, Simon de (junior)

  dowry 75, 76, 162n

  and flight in 1239 72, 73

  and Gasco
ny 80–3, 87, 89, 91, 165n, 166n

  motherhood 13–14, 63, 67, 69, 70, 73, 74, 84, 88–9, 90, 107, 148n, 167n

  and reform movement 95–6, 102–3

  and royalist captives after battle of Lewes 105–6, 114–15

  seduction by Simon 64–5, 71–2

  and Treaty of Paris 96–102, 105, 170n

  relationship with Eleanor of Provence 90–1

  relationship with King Henry III 43–4, 47, 52–3, 55–7, 59–60, 67, 75, 76–7, 85–6, 87, 91–2, 99, 104–5, 130, 132, 151n, 152n, 154n, 155n, 156n, 157n, 163n, 168–9n

  relationship with mother 28, 30–1

  religious and literary interests and almsgiving 11–14, 47, 58–9, 83–5, 87, 117–18, 118–19, 130–1, 158n

  seal 43, 51, 83, 131, 133, 154n

  widowhood, 37–47, 49–60, 51–8, 123–5, 127–36, 156n

  dower 38–41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49–51, 68, 70, 75–6, 78–80, 92, 98, 99–100, 103, 106–7, 130, 135, 136, 151n, 152n, 154n, 155n, 163n, 164–5n, 172–3n, 183n

  in exile (1265–75), 127–36, 180n, 181–2n

  surrenders Dover Castle (1265) 115–16, 125, 175n

  vow of chastity 37–8, 45–7, 61, 63, 66, 68, 150n, 153n, 155n

  will of 132, 136, 183n

  Embleton, Northumb, barony 114

  England, Kings of see Edward I; Henry II; Henry III; John; Richard I

  England, Queens of see Eleanor of Aquitaine; Eleanor of Castile; Eleanor of Provence; Isabella of Angoulême; Margaret of France

  English History by Matthew Paris 66

  De eruditione filiorum nobilium by Vincent of Beauvais 142n

  Essex, Earl of 4

  see also Bohun, Humphrey de

  Eudes, clerk of Countess Eleanor 110

  Everleigh, Wilts 54, 86

  Evesham, Worcs, battle of (1265) xi, 109, 114, 115, 122–3, 124, 127, 130, 131, 132, 135, 176n

  Exeter, Bishop of 154n

  Exeter, Devon 4, 28

  castle 148n

  St Nicholas’s Priory in 28

  fairs 55

  falconry 59

  Fauconberg family 113, 174n

  Fauconberg, Avicia de, nun 113

  Fauconberg, Walter de 90–1, 113, 174n

  wife of see Brus, Agnes de

  Fawley, Bucks 36

  Feckenham forest 56, 77, 151n, 157n

  Fernham, Simon de 175n

  Ferrand, son of King Sancho I of Portugal, wife of see Joan, Countess of Flanders

  Ferrers, William de, Earl of Derby, wife of see Marshal, Sibyl

  fitz Giles, Alexander, of Lincoln 163n

  fitz Hugh, Adam 54

  fitz Nicholas, Ralph 31, 154n

  fitz Richard, Ralph 51, 54

  fitz Robert, Eudo, of Metheringham 163n

  Flanders, Count of 145n

  see also Baldwin (IX)

  Flanders, Countess of see Joan

  Flixton, Suff, priory 174n

  Florence, Italy, vicar of see Montfort, Guy de

  Floris, son of Count William (I) of Holland 145n

  wife of see Mathilde

  Fontevrault, near Chinon, France, abbey 130–1

 

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