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CFR, 1272–1307
, p. 44; ‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 265.

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The Countess of Leicester’s executors were Amaury de Montfort, Simon, vicar of Cleybroke (Leicestershire), Master Nicholas of Waltham and Master Nicholas de Heyham (alias Hecham), Archdeacon of Bedford, who had visited Eleanor at Dover in 1265: Green,
Lives
, ii, pp. 159, 457–8 no. xi;
CClR, 1272–9
, p. 181. See also p. 120.

61
  

CClR, 1272–9
, p. 224. For Nicholas of Waltham, see also BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, ff. 31–31v, 31v–32.

62
  

Chronica monasterii . . . Willelmi Rishanger
, p. 87; ‘Annales prioratus de Dunstaplia’, p. 259; ‘Annales Londonienses’, p. 86;
Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
, p. 239. For the younger Eleanor’s subsequent life and career, including her capture, and that of her brother, Amaury, and the siblings’ imprisonment by the English king on her way to join her husband in 1275, see K. Norgate (2004, rev. M. Costambeys), ‘Eleanor (c
.
1258–1282)’,
ODNB
, available online at
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19046
, accessed on 27 August 2010; G. Richards (2009),
Welsh Noblewomen in the Thirteenth Century: An Historical Study of Medieval Welsh Law and Gender Roles
. Lampeter: Edwin Mellon Press, pp. 138–48. For Eleanor’s acta as lady of Wales, and her concerns about the execution of her mother’s will in England, see
The Acts of Welsh Rulers, 1120–1283
, ed. H. Pryce (2005). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 629–33 nos 432–6. See also ibid., pp. 579–80 nos 395–6, pp. 583–5 no. 398, pp. 620–5 no. 429.

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See p. 1.

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For this and another document, issued in 1284, whereby Amaury discharged his mother’s debts to the French king, see BnFr MS Clairambault 1188, f. 32. See also Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
, pp. 369–70 no. li; Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
(2nd edn), p. 259 n. 1; Labarge,
Simon de Montfort
, p. 271. Edward, for his part, paid the nuns £63 1s. 8d. for the £220 16s.
par
. when he visited Paris in July 1286 from the moneys owed to Eleanor for her Marshal dower:
Issues of the Exchequer
, ed. F. Devon (1837). London: John Murray, p. 98; Bémont,
Simon de Montfort
(2nd edn), p. 259 n. 1.

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