Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
An abbey of the order of St Victor in Boulogne-sur-Mer. In the Middle Ages it was an important destination for pilgrimages in France, leading to a sattelite pilgrimage site being set up nearer to Paris, in the Woods of Boulogne, which took its name after Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Froissart is mistaken here when he says that Thomas of Lancaster was Edward II’s uncle. Instead Edward and Thomas were cousins, Thomas being the son of Edward I’s younger brother, Edmund. The erroneous statement is present in Froissart’s source for this passage, Jean le Bel’s Chroncle, and has survived in the ‘A’, ‘Amiens’ and ‘Valenciennes’ redactions, as well as in the abridgement in MS fr. 10144. The error is not in the other redactions (‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘Rome’), presumably because Froissart became aware of it and corrected his text.
Froissart is mistaken here when he says that Thomas of Lancaster was Edward II’s uncle. Instead Edward and Thomas were cousins, Thomas being the son of Edward I’s younger brother, Edmund. The erroneous statement is present in Froissart’s source for this passage, Jean le Bel’s Chroncle, and has survived in the ‘A’, ‘Amiens’ and ‘Valenciennes’ redactions, as well as in the abridgement in MS fr. 10144. The error is not in the other redactions (‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘Rome’), presumably because Froissart became aware of it and corrected his text.
SHF 1A-5syncIl qui estoit si bien dou roy et si prochains comme il volloit et plus
creüs tous seuls que tous li mondes, s’en vint au roy, et lui dist que chil seigneur avoient fait aliance encontre lui et qu’il le meteroient hors de son
royaumme se il ne s’en gardoit, et tant fist par son enort et par son soutil
malisté et enghin que li roys fist a ung jour prendre tous ces seigneurs a ung parlement la ou il estoit
assamblé, et en fist decoler sans delay et sans congnissance de cause jusques a XXII des plus grans barons et tout premiers le comte Thummas de
Lancastre, qui estoit ses oncles,5
preudoms et sains homs et fist puis assés de biaux miracles, pour lequel fet le dit messires Hues acquist grant haynne de tout le paÿs et especialment
de la roynne d’Engleterre et del comte de Kem, qui estoit frerez au
dit roy d’Engleterre. Encoires ne cessa point a tant li dis messires
Hues de enorter le roy de mal affaire car quant il perchupt que il estoit
mal de la roynne et del comte de Kem, il mist si grant discort
entre le roy et la roynne par son malisté que ly roys ne
volloit point veoir
la roynne ne venir ou lieu ou elle
fuist. Et dura chils discors assés longement, et fu qui dist a le roynne et au comte de Kem tout secretement pour les perilx esloingnier ou il
estoient il leur en poroit bien
mesvenir prochainnement car li dis messires Hues leur pourcachoit grant
destourbier. Dont quant la roynne et li comtez de Cam oyrent ces nouvellez, si se doubterent car il sentoient le roy hastieu et de divierse
li cappitainne de la ville et li bourgois et ossi li abbés vinrent contre li et le requeillierent mout liement et l’en
menerent en le ville et le logierent en l’abbeie et toutte se routte, et y fu
Quant li roys vit sa serour que grant tempz a n’avoit veü et
elle dubt entrer en sa cambre, il vint contre li et le prist par la main droite et le baisa
et dist: "A bien viengne, ma belle soer et mes biaux niés."
Lors les prist tous deux et les mena avant. La damme, qui pas
n’avoit trop grant joie fors de ce que elle se trouvoit dallés le roy son frere, s’estoit ja vollue engeniller par trois ou par quattre foix a
piés le roy son frere mes li roys ne le layoit et le
tenoit
toudis par le main droite, et li demandoit moult douchement de sen estat et de sen
affaire et la damme l’en respondoit tresagement, et tant furent les parolles
que elle li dist: "Monseigneur, se nous va, moy et mon fil, assés
petitement car li roys d’Engleterre, mes maris, m’a pris en trop grant
haynne et se ne scet pourquoy et tout par l’enort d’un chevalier qui s’apelle Hue li
Espensier. Chils chevaliers a tellement atret mon seigneur a soy
et a sa vollenté que tout che qu’il voelt dire et faire, pb 2 v
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