Queens Consort (88 page)

Perseigne, Gautier de,
135
,
138

Pershore,
178

Peruzzi (bankers),
260

Peter of Savoy,
168
,
169
,
170
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
177
,
178
,
183
,
187

Peterborough,
24

Pevensey,
32
,
317
; Castle,
268

Philip, Master (royal physician),
260

Philip III of France,
194
,
204

Philip ‘the Fair’ (IV) of France,
204
,
205
,
212
,
213—14
,
216
,
316

Philip V of France,
231
,
243

Philip VI of France,
242
,
243
,
257
,
259
,
263

Philip Augustus of France,
111
,
119
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
127
,
130
,
132
,
133
,
137
; and Lusignan rebellion,
147
; Normandy campaign,
149
; truce with England,
152
; John’s strategy against,
153
; death,
158

Philip of Savoy,
169
,
170
,
177
,
194

Philip the Good,
323

Philippa of France,
248—49

Philippa of Hainault (later Queen of England): arrival in London,
251
; marriage to Edward III,
251
,
252
; appearance,
252
,
254
; image as ‘bourgeois’ queen,
252
; childhood,
252—3
; ancestry,
253
; dower lands,
253
,
255
; coronation,
254
,
406
; interest in books,
253
; intercessions,
253—4
; and birth of son Edward,
254
; children,
254
,
260—1
; birth of daughter Isabella,
255—6
; Scottish campaign,
257
,
263
; financial matters,
258
connections with Hainault,
258
266
270
; in Flanders,
259
,
260
; relationship with husband Edward,
260
; Christmas presents to husband,
262
; estranged from husband,
264
; visit to Calais,
264—5
,
288
; enterprising spirit,
266
and Edward, the Black Prince’s wedding,
268
,
269
; dislocates shoulder while hunting,
270
; death,
270
,
271

Picquigny,
375

Piers the Fair,
151

Pietro di Capua, Cardinal,
134

Pipe Rolls,
64
,
118

Pisa,
122

Pisa, Rustichello de,
197

Pisan, Christine de,
276
,
291

plague, bubonic,
267

Plantagenet, Katherine,
397

Plantagenet, Philippa,
284

Plantagenet family,
112
,
328
; male heirs, living in 1483
393

Pleshey, Essex,
296

Plymouth,
395

Plympton, Martha,
254

Poitiers,
98
,
109
,
112
,
114
,
117
,
132
,
137
,
159
; St Jean Montierneuf abbey,
109—10
; St Pierre cathedral,
109

Poitiers, battle of (1356),
248
,
250
,
268

Poitou,
96
,
115
,
127
,
132
,
169

Pole, Edmund de la,
409

Pole, John de la,
333

Pole, Katherine de la,
333

Polychronicon
,
111

Pontefract,
300
,
351
,
392
; Castle,
229
,
301
,
390

Pontefract, Sir John of,
397

Ponthieu,
30
,
191
,
192
,
210
,
214
,
249
,
263

Ponthieu, Guy, Count of,
30

Ponthieu, Joan of,
165—6
,
175—6

Ponthieu, Lord of Arques,
20

Poor Clares order,
218

Port des Piles,
109

Portchester,
337

Portofino,
120

Portsmouth,
62
,
152
,
341
,
365

Prague,
273
,
274
; Hradschin Palace,
274

Prata, Pileo de, bishop of Ravenna,
273

Preaux, Peter de,
147

Prèux abbey,
29

Prévot, Pierre,
138

printing,
411—12

Priour, Emma,
258—9

Provençal court,
167

Psaltery, Guy de,
207

Pudding Norton, William of,
249

Puebla, Dr de,
413

Puy, Bartholomew de,
157

Pyebrook, Joan,
256

Quarre abbey,
411

queens, charters witnessed by,
50—1
,
57
,
61—2
,
64

queens, role of,
26—7

Queen’s Council,
178—9
,
311—12
,
320
,
327

‘queen’s gold’,
63—4

Radcot Bridge, battle of (1387),
286

Rahere (Norman minstrel),
54

Ralph, prior of Holy Trinity Aldgate,
89
,
90
,
91

Ramleh,
125

Rançon, Geoffrey de,
102—3
,
116

Randolf, John,
316

Ratclyffe, Sir Richard,
400

Ravenspur,
300
,
372

Raymond, Prince,
104
,
105

Raymond-Berengar, Count,
165
,
167
,
170

Reading,
358
; Abbey,
47
,
64
,
66
,
79
; chronicler,
229

Reading, Robert of,
213
,
229

Récits d’un Ménéstral de Reims
,
105

Reculée castle,
376

Reginald II, Count of Gueldres and Zutphen,
256

Regno, the,
177

Reims,
89
,
97
; Council of,
18

Reims, Richer of,
23

Reinhelm (Matilda’s chancellor),
49

religious life and female scholarship,
26

religious movement in 12th century,
74—5

religious orders,
75
see also individual entries

Renée of Anjou,
335—6
,
337
,
338
,
367
,
375

Rennes: cathedral,
395
; St Sulpice abbey,
90

Rennes, Marbod of,
52

Reynolds, Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury,
208
,
223—4
,
228
,
240

Rhuddlan priory,
198

Rhys, Anthony,
308

Ribblesdale,
367

Richard (Poitevin poet),
118

Richard, Duke of Normandy,
18—19
,
20
,
29

Richard, Henry III’s brother,
172

Richard, illegitimate son of Henry I,
60

Richard, Mr (royal clerk),
198

Richard, son of William and Matilda,
37
,
44

Richard I, King (son of Henry II and Eleanor),
111
,
113
,
114
,
115
,
119
; invested as Duke of Aquitaine,
113—14
; becomes king,
119
; betrothed to Berengaria of Navarre,
120
,
121
; crusading,
120
,
125
,
126
; in Sicily,
122
,
123
; on journey to Holy Land,
123
,
124
,
125
; marries Berengaria,
125
,
141
; imprisonment by Leopold of Austria,
126—7
,
129
; crowned again,
129
; reunited with mother Eleanor,
129
; possible homosexuality,
130
,
131
,
133
; reconciliation with Berengaria,
131
,
132
; reconciliation with brother John,
131—2
; and Château Gaillard,
132
; besieges Chalus,
133
; relationship with Marie,
135
; death,
133—4
,
136
137

Richard II, King (formerly Richard of Bordeaux; son of Edward III and Philippa),
272
,
273
,
327
,
415
; coronation,
273
,
328
; marriage to Anne of Bohemia,
274
,
275
; and Peasants’ Revolt,
275—6
; appearance,
276
; and Earl of Oxford,
283
,
285
; mercurial tendencies,
276
; supposed homosexuality,
276
,
282—3
; character,
276—7
; peerage expanded,
277
; and pageantry,
294
; building projects,
278
; and cooking,
278
; and fine clothes,
278
; intimacy with wife Anne,
282
,
283
,
285
,
288—9
; Scottish campaign,
283
,
285
; marriage to Isabelle de Valois,
283
,
294
,
295—6
; defeated at Radcot Bridge,
286
; plan to strike at the lords,
286
; stabilises government,
287
; and Londoners,
287
,
288
,
289
; and death of Anne,
289
; travels in England,
289
; campaigns in Ireland,
290
,
299
,
300
; proposed marriage to Isabelle, daughter of Charles VI,
290—1
,
292—3
; and lsabelle’s dowry,
293
; meets Charles VI,
294
; meets Isabelle,
294
; ambition to be Holy Roman Emperor,
296
; criticised by Parliament,
296
; arrest of Lords Appellant,
296—7
; gains support of Parliament,
297
; and Henry Bolingbroke,
297—8
; tyrannical behaviour,
298—9
; opportunity to gain more wealth,
299
; sees Isabelle for last time,
299
; returns to England,
300
; arrested by Henry Bolingbroke,
300—1
; marries Anne of Bohemia,
308
; in Wilton Diptych,
310—11
; and Charles VI’s madness,
316
; death,
301
; tomb with Anne of Bohemia,
310
,
311

Richard III, King (formerly Duke of Gloucester; son of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville),
319
,
369
,
373
; appearance,
381
; Anne Neville chooses as husband,
381
; marriage to Anne Neville,
381—2
; named in Edward IV’s will as lord protector,
383
; receives news of brother Edward IV’s death,
384
,
385
; remains in the north,
384—5
; and Woodville family,
384—6
,
387—8
; meets Buckingham at Northampton,
386
; arrives in London,
387
,
388
; invested as protector,
388
; disposes of Lord Hastings,
388—9
; moves to discredit Edward IV

Richard 1II—
contd
and Elizabeth,
389—90
; proclaimed king,
390
; coronation,
391—2
; and princes in the Tower,
393
; conspiracies against,
393
,
394—5
; and Elizabeth Woodville,
396
; rule confirmed by Parliament,
396
; illegitimate children,
397
; relationship with wife Anne,
397
,
398
; stops sleeping with Anne,
398
,
399—400
; interest in Elizabeth of York,
398—9
,
400
; rumours regarding Anne’s death,
400
; and return of Henry Tudor,
401—2
; at Bosworth,
402
; death,
402

Richard Coeur de Lyon
,
130

‘Richard the Redeless’,
278

Richildis, widow of Count of Hainault,
19
,
36

Richmond, Alan the Red, Count of,
42
,
43

Richmond, Earl of,
233

Richmond Palace,
415

Rievaulx monastery,
230
,
231

Rivers, Lord (formerly Sir Richard Woodville),
350
,
353
,
354
,
356—7
,
359
,
360
,
361—2
,
364
,
365
,
377
,
378
,
385
,
386
,
387
,
388
,
390
,
412

Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury,
30

Robert, Duke of Normandy,
18
,
20
,
21
,
31

Robert, Master (illuminator),
253

Robert ‘Curthose’ (son of William and Matilda),
37
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
44
,
50
,
70

Robert the Bruce,
205
,
208
,
211
,
214
,
229
,
230
,
231
,
242
; sister Mary,
208
; son David,
242