Notes
1 Henry’s father, Geoffrey of Anjou, was nicknamed Plantagenet from the genêt, the name of a shrub
(“broom” in English) that he liked. Historians sometimes use the sobriquet to refer to the entire dynasty,
so Henry II was the first “Plantagenet” as well as the first “Angevin” king of England. Return to text.
2 The Assize of Clarendon, in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic
World, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein, 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), p. 311. Return
to text.
3 The Costs of Richard of Anstey’s Law Suit, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 314. Return to text.
4 Proceedings for the Abbey of Bec, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 321. Return to text.
5 Constitutions of Clarendon, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 331. Return to text.
6 Magna Carta, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 340. Return to text.
7 The Laws of Cuenca, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 315. Return to text.
8 Diet of Besançon, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 335. Return to text.
9 The Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam, ed. and trans. Joseph L. Baird, Giuseppe Baglivi, and John Robert
Kane, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 40 (Binghamton, NY: MRTS, 1986), p. 5. Return to
text.
10 Bernart de Ventadorn, When I see the lark, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 348. Return to text.
11 Ibid., pp. 348–49. Return to text.
12 La Comtessa de Dia, I have been in heavy grief, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 349. Return to text.
13 The Priest Who Peeked, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 352. Return to text.
14 Bertran de Born, Half a sirventés I’ll sing, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 351. Return to text.
15 Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 360. Return to text.
16 Ibid., p. 362. Return to text.
17 Guild Regulations of the Parisian Silk Fabric Makers, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 322. Return to
text.
18 Peter the Venerable, Letter to Doctor Bartholomew, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 342. Return to text.