The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family (41 page)

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23
   Hammond,
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury
, p. 74.

24
   Kleineke, p. 81

25
   
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, p. 21–23.

26
   Hammond,
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury
, pp. 105–07.

27
   The following is taken from Hammond,
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury
, pp. 107–08; Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, pp. 591–92.

28
   
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, p. 37.

29
   
Crowland
, p. 129.

30
   
Political Poems and Songs
, vol. II, pp. 278–79.

31
   Hammond,
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury
, pp. 108–13.

32
   
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, p. 38.

7    A Woodville Abroad
 

  
1
   
PL
, no. 373, part I, pp. 566–67.

  
2
   Grummitt, p. 154; Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, p. 4.

  
3
   
PL
, no. 350, part I, p. 570; no. 262, part I, p. 440; no. 266, part I, p. 446.

  
4
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, pp. 31–32, 33–34; CPR, 1467–1477, p. 339; Ross,
Edward IV
, pp. 206–07; PL, no. 269, part. I, p. 450.

  
5
   Ames and Herbert, vol. 1, p. 61.

  
6
   TNA: C 142/1/36 (Cambridge); C 142/1/37 (Hertford); C 142/1/38 (Norfolk); C 142/1/39 (Suffolk).

  
7
   ‘Household of Queen Margaret of Anjou’, p. 182 n.1.

  
8
   TNA: C 142/1/36 (Cambridge); C 142/1/37 (Hertford); C 142/1/38 (Norfolk); C 142/1/39 (Suffolk).

  
9
   
PL
, no. 90, part I, p. 165.

10
   
PL
, no. 574, part II, p. 175.

11
   See Chapter 1.

12
   
Coronation of Elizabeth of Wydeville
, p. 46.

13
   Harvey, p. 81.

14
   Griffiths, p. 707, n.108.

15
   
English Chronicle
, p. 96.

16
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 92.

17
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 92;
English Chronicle
, p. 98.

18
   Pidgeon, part 2, pp. 30, 35.

19
   
Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and Kings Lynn
, pp. 224–25.

20
   Crawford,
Household Books
, pt. I, pp. 281, 480–82; Crawford,
Yorkist Lord
, pp. 41–42, 156.

21
   Myers, ‘Household of Queen Margaret of Anjou’, p. 288.

22
   Pidgeon, part 2, p. 35. The heirs in 1485 were John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, returned home after a long exile and imprisonment, and William Tyndale. James Ross,
John de Vere
, p. 91.

23
   Blomefield, vol. 9, p. 26. As Blomefield confuses Anthony’s brother Richard with his brother Edward, and has Anthony attempting to make a Scottish marriage several years after the match in question was suggested, his account is not entirely trustworthy; however, the identity of Anthony’s mistress does not appear to have been questioned. H.T. Evans identifies Gwenllian as William’s daughter and as Anthony’s mistress but does not name Gwenllian’s mother. Evans, p. 142 n.7.

24
   Barnwell, p. 32. Barnwell gives no source for the deed.

25
   Alasdair Hawkyard, ‘Poyntz, Sir Robert (b. late 1440s, d. 1520)’,
ODNB
, January 2008; TNA: E 315/486/57.

26
   PROB 11/8; Pidgeon, part 2, p. 43.

27
   Pidgeon, ‘Antony Wydeville’, part 2, p. 41.

28
   See Appendix. Poyntz himself would remain loyal to his wife’s Woodville relations; he joined the rebellion against Richard III a few months after Anthony’s death and fought for Henry Tudor at Bosworth in 1485.

29
   
Calendar of Papal Registers
, 1476. 5 Kal, May (27 April), St. Peter’s, Rome (f. 99v.).

30
   TNA: PROB 11/8; Pidgeon, pp. 43, 45.

31
   Edward’s younger brother Richard had been born at Shrewsbury on 17 August 1473.

32
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, p. 5; H.T. Evans, p. 116.

33
   Lowe, ‘Patronage and Politics’, pp. 556–61.

34
   
PL
, no. 273, part 1, p. 456.

35
   For what follows see Orme, ‘The Education of Edward V’.

36
   Mancini, pp. 67–69; Lowe,
Patronage and Politics
, pp. 553–54; Ives, 216–25.

37
   Friedrichs, p. 222.

38
   Hicks, ‘Changing Role of the Wydevilles’, p. 83.

39
   Lowe, ‘Patronage and Politics’, p. 553.

40
   For what follows see Ross,
Edward IV
, pp. 205–38; Scofield,
Edward IV
,vol. II, pp. 113–51.

41
   
Edward V’s French Expedition
, pp. 1V–2R, 7–10, 15–19.

42
   Ross,
Edward IV
, p. 237.

43
   Milan, 1 October 1475, no. 315.

44
   
Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxten
, p. 38.

45
   
Calendar of Papal Registers
, vol. 13,
Lateran Regesta
762: 1475–76, 1716; 5 Kal. May (27 April), f. 99v.

46
   Milan, 7 March 1476, no. 324.

47
   
PL
, no. 298, part 1, p. 494.

48
   Venice, 10 May 1476, no. 454.

49
   Venice, 13 May 1476, no. 455.

50
   Milan, 9 June 1476, no. 339, 11 June 1476, no. 340.

8    Pomp and Printing
 

  
1
   TNA: C 140/42/49.

  
2
   
Calendar of Close Rolls
, 1476–1485, p. 194.

  
3
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs,
Royal Funerals
, p. 4 & n.6.

  
4
   For the following see
English Historical Literature
, pp. 382–88.

  
5
   The Duchess of Exeter’s Lancastrian husband, Henry Holland, seriously wounded at the battle of Barnet, was a prisoner in the Tower. The future Richard III, who would execute three of the guests and force two of the others into sanctuary in 1483, was not named among those at table.

  
6
   Hicks,
Edward V
, p. 63.

  
7
   Vale, ‘Louis de Bruges’, p. 119. Sir Guichard d’Angle was made Earl of Huntingdon in 1377.

  
8
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs,
Royal Funerals
, p. 4 & n.6.

  
9
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, p. 60.

10
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, p. 117.

11
   Shaw,
Knights of England
, pp. 136–37. Poignantly, Thomas Vaughan, chamberlain to Prince Edward, was also made a Knight of the Bath; he and his fellow knight, Richard Grey, would die together at Pontefract eight years later.

12
   
Excerpta Historica
, pp. 371–72, 373

13
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, p. 163.

14
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs,
Reburial
, pp. 7–28.

15
   Griffiths in Sutton and Visser-Fuchs,
Royal Funerals
, pp. 47–49.

16
   For Caxton’s arrival in England and the chronology of his publications, see Hellinga,
Caxton in Focus
, pp. 80–83.

17
   Hellinga,
Caxton in Focus
, pp. 42–43.

18
   Hellinga,
Caxton in Focus
, p. 84.

19
   A. W. Pollard,
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse
, p. 204. For translators in the fifteenth century, see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Choosing a Book’, pp. 68–69.

20
   Ames and Herbert, vol. 2, p. 65.

21
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Richard III’s Books: XI Ramon Lull’s Order of Chivalry’, p. 297.

22
   
Prologues and Epilogues
, pp. 20–22.

23
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Richard III’s Books’, pp. 113–14; Hellinga,
Caxton in Focus
, pp. 84–86.

24
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Richard III’s Books’, p. 114. The Duke of Clarence may have been a patron of Caxton’s before the printer moved to England. Hellinga, p. 31.

25
   Hellinga, p. 77; Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Richard III’s Books’, p. 297.

26
   For what follows see Illustrations, pp. 27–40. For Anne Mowbray’s background see Colin Richmond, ‘Mowbray, John (VII), fourth Duke of Norfolk (1444–1476)’,
ODNB
, 2006.

9    The Downfall of a Duke
 

  
1
   The dispute has been covered extensively, especially by Michael Hicks. A good summary can be found in his ‘Descent, Partition and Extinction’, pp. 327–33.

  
2
   Hicks,
Anne Neville
, p. 104.

  
3
   
Crowland
, p. 133.

  
4
   Hicks,
Anne Neville
, p. 143; Clarke, ‘English Royal Marriages’, p. 1023. The dispensation was discovered only recently and thus is spoken of as being nonexistent in a number of sources published before 2005.

  
5
   
PL
, part I, p. 447, no. 267.

  
6
   Hicks, ‘Descent, Partition and Extinction’, p. 328;
False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence
, p. 116.

  
7
   
PL
, part I, p. 464, no. 277; Hicks,
False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence
, pp. 121–22.

  
8
   Hicks,
False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence
, pp. 128, 130, 138.

  
9
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. II, pp. 184–86; Ross,
Edward IV
, pp. 250–51, Commynes, vol. II, p. 8.

10
   Halliwell,
Letters of the Kings of England
, vol. I, p. 147.

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