Authors: Lisa Hilton
Queens Consort (81 page)
Cnut of Denmark,
23—4
Cobbe, Marjory,
371
Coeffet hospital,
140
Cog Thomas
,
267—8
Cogg, Adam,
223
Coggeshall, Essex,
74
Cognac,
157
Cognac, Philip of,
130
Coigners, Geoffrey de,
208
Colchester,
326
Coiles, Roger,
316
Collyweston,
411
Comnenus, Isaac,
124
,
125
; daughter (later Countess of Toulouse),
124
,
125
,
129
,
135
‘Complaint of the Commons of Kent’,
342
Compostela,
96
Conches abbey,
29
Concordia
,
288—9
Conrad of Sicily,
177
Constance, daughter of William and Matilda,
37
,
39
Constance, sister of Louis VII,
81
,
83
Constance of Castile,
107
,
111
,
295
Constantinople,
102
; Boukoleon Palace,
102
Constitution Domus Regis,
62
Conway,
300
Conway, John,
332
Cooke, John,
326
Copeland, John,
263
Copin (Le Mans Jew),
140
Cordial
,
412
Corfe Castle,
74
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
244
289
Corneilles abbey,
29
Cornwall, Piers Gaveston, Earl of,
209
,
210
,
211
,
212—14
,
215
,
216
,
224
,
230
,
246
,
283
,
301
Cornwall, Richard, Earl of,
150
,
152
,
156
,
159
,
168
,
169
,
173
,
178
,
186
,
192
Cosham,
270
Cotton, Lady Margaret,
411
Coucy, Philippa de,
285
Courcy, Lady Margaret de,
295
,
299
Courtenay, Alice de,
145—6
Courtenay, Hugh de,
262
Courtenay, Peter, bishop of Exeter,
395
Courtenay II, Peter de,
146
Courtenay, Robert,
146—7
Courtenay, William, Lord,
410—11
Courtenay family,
146
courtiers, English, appearance of,
52
Coutances, Walter of, archbishop of Rouen,
127
Coventry,
202
,
299
,
326
,
349
,
350
,
364
,
370
,
372
; Castle,
347—8
Craon, Peter de,
293
Crécy, battle of (1346),
250
,
261
,
263
Cressing Temple, Essex,
75
Cressiwil, Sir Richard de,
257—8
Cromwell, Lord,
233
Crondall church,
199
Croyland Chronicle, The
,
352
,
362
,
379
,
381
,
384
,
388
,
392
,
396
,
399
,
400
,
401
Crusade, Second (1147—9),
101—6
Crusade, Third (1189—92),
125—6
,
141
Crusade, Eighth (1270—1),
191
,
192—4
crusaders,
101
see also
Templars
Cumberland,
82
Cyprus,
124—5
Damett, Thomas,
326
Dampierre Castle,
376
Dangerosa (William X’s mistress),
96
,
113
Dartmouth,
256
,
365
,
370
; Priory,
410
Daubeney, Sir Giles,
395
David (poet),
63
David, King of Scotland,
48
,
58
,
65
,
70
,
77
,
88
,
242
,
248
,
256—7
,
263
De Celesti Hierarchia
,
198
De Secretis Secretorum
,
253
Deddington, Oxfordshire,
216
Deeds of the Kings of England, The
,
55
Deerhurst,
199
Denys, William,
311
Derby, Robert Ferrers, Earl of,
183
,
184
Desiré (Le Mans Jew),
140
Despenser, Hugh, elder and younger,
191
,
226
,
227
,
228
,
229
,
231
,
232
,
233
,
234
,
235
,
236—7
,
238
,
239
,
241
,
288
Deuil, Odo de,
103
Devizes,
84
,
86
,
88
,
89
,
150
,
215
; Castle,
117
Devon, Margaret, Countess of,
329
Dictes and sayings of the Philosophers
,
412
Dieppe,
375
Dinham, John,
350
‘Disinherited’ peers,
242
Donald of Scotland,
43
Dorset, Marchioness of,
407
Dorset, Thomas Grey, Marquis of (son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville),
361
,
373
,
378
,
386
,
387
,
388
,
394
,
395
,
409
,
410
Douce Apocalypse,
197
Douglas, Earl of,
257
‘Douglases, Black’,
367
Dover,
77
,
86
,
91
,
111
,
155
,
274
,
342
; Castle,
77
,
168
,
183—4
Drayton Manor,
397
Dublin,
405
Duncan of Scotland,
43
Dunstanburgh Castle,
366
Duppin Moor, battle of (1332),
257
Durham,
62
,
77
,
263
; chronicler,
71
; college,
390
; Cathedral,
42
,
51
,
53
; Priory,
390
Dursley,
89
Eadgyth Swan-Neck,
42
Eadmer,
46
Eadwine Psalter,
63
Ealdgyth (Edith), wife of Harold,
31
,
34
Easteney, John, abbot of Westminster,
387
Eaton,
113
Ecclesiastical History,
26
Edessa,
101
Edgar I of Scotland,
43
Edgar Aetheling,
30
,
35
,
40
,
43
,
47
Edgecote, battle of (1469),
319
,
364
Edinburgh,
283
Edith (Ealdgyth), wife of Harold,
31
,
34
Edith, Edward the Confessor’s queen,
29—30
,
34
,
41
,
42
,
46—7
,
197
Edith of Scotland,
see
Matilda of Scotland
Edmund, son of Edward III and Philippa,
254
,
261
Edmund, son of Henry III and Eleanor,
171
,
177—8
,
184
,
188
,
192
,
194
Edmund, son of Owen Tudor and Catherine de Valois (later Earl of Richmond),
332
,
333—4
,
348
,
373
Edmund II ‘Ironside’, King,
23
,
24
,
40
Edward, the Black Prince (son of Edward III and Philippa),
248
,
249
,
254
,
260
,
261
,
267—8
,
269
,
270
,
271
,
272
Edward, Prince of Wales (son of Henry VI and Marguerite),
373
; birth,
346
; tours Midlands with mother,
348
; disinherited,
351
; marriage to Anne Neville,
368—9
,
370
; death,
374
Edward, Prince of Wales (son of Richard III and Anne Neville),
382
,
383
Edward, son of King Malcolm,
43
Edward I King (son of Henry III and Eleanor),
166
,
168
,
169
,
175
,
176
,
179
,
185
,
187
,
188
; and death of Eleanor of Castile,
190
,
201
,
202
; imprisoned,
190—1
; crusading,
191
,
192—4
; common interests with Eleanor,
196
; passion for falconry,
196
; literary patronage,
197
; and Arthurian legend,
198
; providing for Eleanor,
200
,
201
; love for Eleanor,
202
; marriage to Marguerite of France,
204
,
205—6
; Scots campaign,
204
,
205
; and birth of son Thomas,
206
; and children’s religious education,
206—7
; leisure pursuits,
207
; relationship with Marguerite,
207—8
; and son Edward’s relationship with Piers Gaveston,
209
,
210
; uxoriousness,
219
; love of music,
223
; death,
210
; funeral,
210—11
Edward II, King (son of Edward I and Eleanor),
154
,
194
,
195
,
202
,
204
,
208
; relationship with stepmother Marguerite,
208—10
; supposed homosexuality,
209
,
223
,
229
,
230
,
245—6
see also
Gaveston, Sir Piers; father’s funeral,
210—11
; marriage to Isabella,
211
,
212
; coronation,
212—13
,
301
; injunctions,
214—15
; pursuit by Earl of Lancaster’s forces,
215—16
; restores properties,
217
; fondness of lower classes,
223
; leisure pursuits,
223—4
; love of music,
223—4
; relationship with wife Isabella,
224
,
225
,
229—30
,
231
; and treaty of Leake,
225—6
; and Marcher lords,
226—7
,
228
; ‘tyranny’ of,
229
; Scottish campaign,
230
; and departure of Isabella,
233—4
; and Isabella’s invading army,
237
,
238
,
239
,
246
; imprisoned by Isabella’s army,
238—9
; Great Seal,
239
; deposed,
240—1
; death,
241—2
,
245
,
246
; ‘Song’ or ‘Lament’,
247
; funeral,
251
Edward II
(Marlowe),
241
Edward III, King (son of Edward II and Isabella),
235
,
236
; and Arthurian legend,
198
; birth,
216—17
,
224
; invested as Duke of Aquitaine,
233
; made Keeper of the Realm,
238
; as new King,
240—1
; marriage to Philippa of Hainault,
241
,
251
,
252
; claim to French crown,
242
,
243
,
245
; moves against Mortimer,
244—5
; plays down mother’s role in death of her husband,
246—7
; relations with mother,
248
; treaty with France,
249
; interest in books,
253
,
261—2
; tournaments staged,
256
; questions treaty of Northampton,
257
; Scottish campaign,
257
,
259
; financial matters,
258
260
; declares war on France,
259
; relationship with Philippa,
260
; motto, ‘
Honi soit qui mal y pense’
,
261
,
262
; and order of the Garter,
261
,
262
; campaign in France,
261
,
263
; and Catherine Montague,
262
; claim to French throne,
262—3
; estranged from Philippa,
264
; visit to Calais,
264—5
; and Hainault,
266
; and mistress Alice Perrers,
271
,
272
; death,
273
,
284
; and male succession,
284—5
Edward IV, King (son of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville),
319
; as Earl of March,
339
,
349—50
,
351
,
352
,
353
,
354
; proclaimed Edward IV,
353
; coronation,
354
,
358—9
; meets Elizabeth Woodville,
355
,
358
; marriage to Elizabeth,
356
,
358
; relationship with Elizabeth,
358
,
378
,
379
,
416
; appearance,
358
,
383
; and Elizabeth’s coronation,
360
; taken prisoner,
364
,
365
; and Earl of Warwick,
365
; released from prison,
365
; funds ‘Black Douglases’ conspiracy,
367
; and Wars of the Roses,
368
,
373
; and rising in the north,
369
; and return of Earl of Warwick,
370
; leaves England,
370
; and Charles of Burgundy,
371—2
,
415
; returns to England,
372—3
; refoundation of dynasty,
374
,
376
; and Lord Gruuthuyse,
377
; mistresses,
378
,
379
; illegitimate children,
378
,
409
; and execution of Duke of Clarence,
379
; claimed to be illegitimate,
389
; marriage to Elizabeth deemed illegitimate,
389
,
396
;
marriage proposal for Henry Tudor,
393
; ancestry,
406
; building projects,
415
; court,
416
; death,
383
