Authors: Lisa Hilton
Queens Consort (88 page)
Pershore,
178
Peruzzi (bankers),
260
Peter of Savoy,
168
,
169
,
170
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
177
,
178
,
183
,
187
Peterborough,
24
Philip, Master (royal physician),
260
Philip ‘the Fair’ (IV) of France,
204
,
205
,
212
,
213—14
,
216
,
316
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
Pisa,
122
Pisa, Rustichello de,
197
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
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, Lord of Arques,
20
Poor Clares order,
218
Port des Piles,
109
Portchester,
337
Portofino,
120
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
Randolf, John,
316
Ratclyffe, Sir Richard,
400
Raymond-Berengar, Count,
165
,
167
,
170
Reading,
358
; Abbey,
47
,
64
,
66
,
79
; chronicler,
229
Récits d’un Ménéstral de Reims
,
105
Reculée castle,
376
Reginald II, Count of Gueldres and Zutphen,
256
Regno, the,
177
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
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