Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England (53 page)

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 Gascony 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

food and drink xii, 9, 58, 67, 77, 111, 113, 114–15, 117, 119, 120, 121, 123, 151n, 163n

beasts of the chase 120

fish 111, 114, 121, 123, 178n

obtained ‘by booty’ 124

spices 114–15

venison 39, 44, 47, 56–7, 63, 67, 77, 85–6, 121, 151n, 152n, 155n, 156n, 157n

Forest of Dean 44, 57, 63, 157n

Forino, Avellino, Italy 133

Forz, Isabella de, Countess of Devon, lady of the Isle of Wight, 107–8, 110, 173n

Fotheringhay, Northants, castle 18, 19, 144n

Foulsham, Norf 28

Four Books of Sentences
by Peter Lombard 68

France
see
Alice; Margaret; Marie

France, butler of
see
Acre, John of

France, Kings of
see
Louis VII; Louis VIII; Louis IX; Philip III; Philip Augustus

France, Queens of
see
Agnes of Meran; Blanche of Castile; Isabella of Hainaut; Margaret of Provence

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, 1, 5, 58, 64, 67, 74

crusade 71

wife of
see
Isabella, sister of King Henry III

friars 12, 31, 83–4, 130

see also
Abingdon, William of; Bosellis, Brother Geoffrey de; Marsh, Adam

Garbag, servant of Countess Eleanor 118

Garbeton, Notts 77

Gardin, William de 90

Gascony 77–8, 80–3, 87, 89, 91, 92, 96, 133, 164n, 165n, 166n, 169n

Gaugy, Robert de 168n

Geoffrey the Cook 175n

Gerhard (III), Count of Guelders 145n

wife of
see
Margaret

Giffard, Walter, royal chancellor 115, 127

Gloucester, Duke of
see
Thomas

Gloucester and Hertford, Countess of
see
Clare, Matilda de

Gloucester and Hertford, Earls of
see
Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1230); Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1295); Clare, Richard de

Gloucester, Glos, 123, 174n

castle 4, 35, 57

Gloucester, Isabella of 4, 6

Gloucester, Robert of 106

Gobithest, messenger of Countess Eleanor 118

Goodrich, Heref, castle 78

Gorham, William de 11

Gravelines, Nord, France 125

Gravesend, Richard, Bishop of Lincoln 114, 170n

Green, M. A. E. xi, 43, 45

Gregory IX, Pope 67, 68

Gregory X, Pope 134

Grendon, Robert de 53

Grosseteste, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, 81, 82, 89, 91, 114, 117, 165n

Rules
of 52, 56

Guala, papal legate, 7

Guelders, Adelaide of 145n

Guelders, Count of
see
Gerhard (III)

Guie, Prioress of Montargis 131

Guilot, clerk of the chapel 122

Gunthorpe, Notts 170n

Hailes, Glos, abbey 166n

Hainaut
see
Isabella

Hainaut, Sibyl of, 146n

husband of
see
Beaujeu, Guichard of

Haket, Ralph 120, 177n

Hamsted Marshall, Berks 39, 40

Harcourt, Agnes of, abbess of Longchamp 10, 11

Harris, Barbara 88, 159n

Hastings, Matthew of 120, 178n

Havering, Essex 15, 53

park 39, 44

Havering, Agnes of, wife of Richard 91

Havering, John of 107

Havering, Richard of, steward of Earl Simon 53, 107, 117, 168n

Haye, John de la 116, 120, 175n, 178n

constable of Rye and Winchelsea 120

Hecham (
alias
Heyham), Master Nicholas de, Archdeacon of Bedford 120, 178n, 182n

Henry II, King of England 2, 10, 17, 121

daughters of
see
Eleanor; Joan; Matilda

wife of
see
Eleanor of Aquitaine

Henry III, King of England xi, xii, xiii, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24–5, 26, 27, 29, 30, 37, 40, 41, 43, 46, 49–51, 59, 63, 70, 74–5, 84, 86–7, 104, 121, 122, 125, 127, 128–30, 132, 138n, 140n, 148n, 149n, 153n, 157n, 161n, 163n, 164n, 165n, 168n, 172n

almsgiving by, 59

and Barons’ War 109

birth 5, 6

and captivity after battle of Lewes 103, 114, 115

childhood and upbringing, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 141n

nurse of 140n

coronation (first), 7

death 134

gifts and concessions to Eleanor his sister 39–40, 41, 43–4, 47, 52–3, 55–7, 59–60, 67–8, 70, 75, 76–7, 79, 85–6, 87, 91–2, 99, 101, 151n, 152n, 154n, 155n, 156n, 157n, 163n, 164n, 168–9n

corresponds with her after battle of Evesham 124