The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
Durham palatinate into a bulwark against the Scots, despite repeated injunctions to do so.^46 The groundwork had thus been laid ...
did not go.^50 Maybe the explanation is that, whilst the king was trying to put the past behind them in the face of a new and mu ...
further, with large tracts of land in Leicestershire.^57 Likewise, Bishop Louis obtained formal grants of territory that had bee ...
opened perhaps the most difficult period for his siblings, Bishop Beau- mont and Isabella de Vescy, since their arrival in Engla ...
maybeasignthatHenry’sinfluence over Edward Balliol was earlier, andfirmer, than we might think. All this also provides a backdro ...
England, and had him stay in secret in the manor of Sandal, on the OuseinthecountyofYork,withtheladyVescy.’^76 Of course, the re ...
Donald of Mar, who would defect to the Balliol side at the crucial moment.^82 However, he was soon disabused of this notion. Don ...
south-west Scotland, and forced toflee for his life.^86 By then, though, Edward III had thrown off the mask, and marched up from ...
and Henry were amongst those sent to link up with it.^92 Despite such promising beginnings, Edward III’s plans were thrown into ...
We know quite a lot about Louis’s tomb, in Durham cathedral, which was clearly very grand. It featured not only an ‘excellent an ...
A rather extraordinary sign of this can be found in the badge of the ‘Beaumont Herald of Arms Extraordinary’, a subsidiary title ...
other for mutual support.’^104 What Florence provided was the cash. At this particular juncture, the city was at the peak of its ...
resubmission of the despotate of Epiros to the house of Anjou.^110 Pope John XXII played his part too, elevating the campaign in ...
for future expeditions across the Adriatic. Indeed, just such an effort was planned over the course of the next few years, altho ...
Thefirst phase of the Hundred Years’War had significant repercus- sions, stretching as far afield as Italy. The leading Florenti ...
Walter accepted the offer without hesitation. He embarked for Naples, in the spring of 1342, to put an army together.^129 By May ...
kings were making, can be summed up quite succinctly. In a way, the easy part was seizing power. The real challenge would be to ...
Machiavelli’sFlorentine Histories, written in the 1520s. It is typical that the longest part of this particular section is a spe ...
the house of Acciaioli, headed by Angelo, the new bishop of Florence. Of course, it would not have been difficult for the Acciai ...
pope and Philip VI. Whilst the French crown was the more active of the two, there does seem to have been a slight but discernibl ...
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