Read The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family Online
Authors: Susan Higginbotham
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Abbreviations:
CPR
: Calendar of Patent Rolls
Harleian 433: British Library Harleian Manuscript 433
Milan: Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts in the Archives and Collections of Milan
ODNB
: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition)
PL
: Paston Letters, 2004-05 edition.
PROME: Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
VCH: Victoria County History
Venice: Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
1
PL
, no. 88, part I, p. 162; Fabyan, p. 635; Gregory,
1451–1460
; Scofield, ‘Capture of Lord Rivers’.
2
Monstrelet, vol. 5, p. 56.
3
Coronation of Elizabeth Wydeville
, p. 43; Waurin, vol. 4, p. 37;
Bedford Inventories
, p. 116.
4
Bedford Inventories
, p. 18.
5
Bedford Inventories
, pp. 18–19; E. Carleton Williams, p. 228.
6
Pascual, p. 70.
7
Great Chronicle
, p. 171.
8
Coventry Leet Book
, p. 52
9
Gillespie, p. 272.
10
E. Carleton Williams, p. 237.
11
E. Carleton Williams, p. 247.
12
Bedford Inventories
, p. 25.
13
Bedford Inventories
, pp. 29–30.
14
Bedford Inventories
, pp. 25, 365.
15
Jones, ‘Beaufort Family’, p. 318 n.1.
16
Hicks, ‘Changing Role’ p. 62.
17
For this and the above, see Jones, ‘Beaufort Family’, pp. 317–20.
18
CPR
, 1436–41, p. 53.
19
Cokayne, vol. XI, p. 16, ‘Rivers’.
20
PL
, no. 88, part I, p. 162.
21
Excerpta Historica
, pp. 249–50.
22
Leland, vol. ii, p. 491.
23
Lee,
Dictionary of National Biography
vol. XXI, p. 88; Doyle, vol 3, p. 141; Rymer’s
Fœdera
, vol. 10, January–March 1430; Cokayne, vol. XI, p. 19 & n.i.
24
Letters and Pages Illustrative of the Wars of the English in France
, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 436.
25
Chronicles of London
, p. 138; 48th Report, p. 312.
26
Monstrelet, vol. 5, p. 272.
27
PROME, January 1437, item 16.
28
CPR
1436–1441, p. 53; Pascual, pp. 72–73. A pardon was issued on 24 October 1437. Rymer’s
Fœdera
, vol. 10, 1437, pp. 661–81.
29
CPR
1436–1441, p. 72.
30
Waurin, vol. 4, p. 257.
31
48th Report, p. 347; Waurin, vol. iv, p. 326;
Chronicles of London
, pp. 147–48.
32
Chronicles of London
, p. 146.
33
Anglo, ‘Financial and Heraldic Records’, p. 193;
Chronicles of London
, p. 148.
34
Visitations of the North
, p. 58.
35
TNA: C 140/42/49.
36
Annales Rerum Anglicarum
, quoted in
Edward IV: A Source Book
, p. 48.
37
Calendar of Papal Registers
, vol. XIII, 7 January 1482.
38
TNA: C 142/7/2. Though some secondary sources have ascribed an earlier birth date to Katherine, without citation, a later rather than an earlier birth date is corroborated by Elizabeth Woodville’s coronation records, which show that she and her young husband, Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, were young enough in 1465 to be carried around on the shoulders of squires, and by Elizabeth Woodville’s household records.
Coronation of Elizabeth Wydeville
, p. 16; ‘Household of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’, pp. 471, 475.
39
TNA: C 142/1/36; Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, p. 178 n. 1.
40
CPR
1436–1441, p. 426.
41
VCH Northampton, vol. 5, ‘Grafton Regis’.
42
Smith, ‘Notes of Brasses’, p. 178 and plate.
43
Register of Henry Chichele
, vol. 2, p. 608.
44
Coronation of Elizabeth Wydeville
, p. 46, citing Add. MS 23938, Computs J. Breknoke.
45
Loades, pp. 16–19; R.S. Thomas, pp. 18–21.
46
Pascual, p. 76.
47
Cokayne, vol. XI, p. 20;
Coronation of Elizabeth Wydeville
, p. 46.
48
For an excellent account of these events, see Juliet Barker,
Conquest: The English Kingdom in France
.
49
Harvey, pp. 81, 82.
50
‘Some Ancient Indictments’, pp. 215–16.
51
Harvey, pp. 91–95; Griffiths,
Henry VI
, p. 615.
52
Griffiths, ‘Duke Richard of York’s Intentions’, p. 192.
53
Pugh, ‘Richard Plantagenet’, p. 126.
54
Pidgeon, ‘Antony Wydevile’, pt. 1, p. 10.
55
Johnson, p. 91–92 & n. 81.
56
Griffiths,
Reign of King Henry VI
, p. 707 n. 108.
57
Harriss, ‘Struggle for Calais’, pp. 31–32.
58
Three Catalogues
, pp. 277–78.
59
Gardiner,
Paston Letters
, vol. II, pp. 297.
60
Griffiths,
Reign of King Henry VI
, pp. 730–32, Harriss, ‘Struggle for Calais’, pp. 34–39. It seems likely that Richard and Jacquetta’s son Lionel was born during this period, judging from his name.
61
For what follows see Hicks,
Wars of the Roses
(2010), pp. 107–12; Hicks,
Warwick
, pp. 115–17. An excellent account of the battle itself is Andrew Boardman,
The First Battle of St. Albans 1455
.
62
PL
, no. 1029, part III, p. 162.
63
Maurer, pp. 128–29.
64
Coventry Leet Book
, p. 300.
65
Coventry Leet Book
, p. 292.
66
Maurer, p. 144; Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 132; Pollard,
Warwick
, p. 201.
67
Hicks,
Warwick
, pp. 132–34;
Six Town Chronicles
, p. 160.
68
Great Chronicle
, p. 190.
69
Hicks,
Warwick
, pp. 147–48.
70
Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 151; Okerlund,
Slandered Queen
, p. 47.
71
Okerlund,
Slandered Queen
, p. 47.
72
Hicks,
Wars of the Roses
, pp. 140–43; Pollard,
Warwick
, pp. 38–42.
73
Goodman,
Wars of the Roses
, p. 29.
74
Gregory, 196–210;
PL
, no. 88, part I, p. 162; Fabyan, 635–36; Scofield, ‘Capture’, 253–54.
75
Gregory, 196–210.
76
PL
, no. 88, part I, p. 162.
77
PL
, no. 888, part 2, p. 540.
78
Pollard,
Warwick
, pp. 44–45.
79
Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 180.
80
Johnson, p. 211.
81
Gregory
,
http://www.british–history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45559#n17
.