Edward I Archive
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Chaucer’s Arthuriana
Posted on March 18, 2013 | No CommentsThe majority of medieval scholars, including Roger Sherman Loomis, argue that the popularity of the Arthurian legend in England was therefore on the wane in the latter half of the fourteenth century; as a result, the major writers of the period, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, refrained from penning anything beyond the occasional reference to King Arthur and his court. -
The Conquest of Wales (1282)
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsThat was when an English king, Edward the First, sent an army along this route I'm travelling now. He conquered Wales, he built castles as symbols of his power, and he shipped in English settlers to exploit this land. And the Welsh became second-class citizens in their own country. -
The man who lost at Stirling Bridge
Posted on January 19, 2013 | No CommentsThe Battle of Stirling Bridge, fought on September 11, 1297, is remembered as one Scotland's greatest military victories and the high point in the career of William Wallace. A new article now explores the other side of that battle, seeking to understand how the English lost that day. -
The Scottish wars of Edward III, 1327-1338
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis deals with the events of the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1330s and the English military machine that allowed Edward III to win numerous successes against the Scots yet was unable to secure a permanent conquest of any portion of Scotland save Berwick-upon Tweed. -
The Edwardian Conquest and its Military Consolidation
Posted on December 2, 2012 | No CommentsOn land, English armies faced a highly mobile, because lightly armed, infantry whose favoured tactics were ambushes and guerrilla strikes although some native retinues did boast heavy cavalry and siege engines; surprise and speed had to be matched by vigilance and the capacity to concentrate troops swiftly at the point of need. -
Spectacularizing Justice in Late Medieval England
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsI use the word ritual because in cases of treachery use of a general ‘script’ as ordered by these two accounts emerges with surprising frequency in England in the late 13th and early 14th century. -
Aristocratic Politics and the Crisis of Scottish Kingship, 1286–96
Posted on October 5, 2012 | No CommentsIn late 1292 the new king of Scots, John Balliol, did homage to Edward as his superior lord and during the next three years lived with the consequences of this act. -
The personnel of English and Welsh castles, 1272-1422
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsIn England, the role played on the continent by the castellanies would appear to have been performed by the county castle and the sheriff, a post that remained firmly under the king's control in all but a few counties. Instead, a more subtle link between the castle community and political power will have to be found. It will be searched for in the appointment of constables to royal castles, and in grants of ownership of castles, royal or forfeited. It may be found in the building activity that was so common in this period, or in the marriage alliances that created many of the great castle owning estates. -
The English aristocracy at war, 1272-1314
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsNevertheless, the experiences of medieval combatants are best understood in the context of the local communities from which they were recruited and the retinues in which they served. Consequently, an attempt is also made to reassess the subject of military organisation under the first two Edwards by examining the composition and structure of these armies from the perspective of the soldiers and small units that comprised them. -
The Castles of Edward I in North Wales
Posted on August 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe first question that is raised is why these huge fortresses were built in the quite strategically unimportant north of Wales. -
The verity of facts depicted in Braveheart (PRAVDIVOSŤ HISTORICKÝCH FAKTOV VO FILME STATOČNÉ SRDCE)
Posted on July 15, 2012 | No CommentsSo our basic aim was to bring only true facts about the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and the Scottish War of Independence, to compare all these facts with the film version and to enlight the mind of readers and film spectators. -
Bruce, Balliol and the lordship of Galloway: south-western Scotland and the Wars of Independence
Posted on July 3, 2012 | No CommentsOvershadowed by the better documented and more closely studied Bruce campaigns in the north east, the savage civil war which convulsed the lordship between 1306 and 1314, and again from 1332 to 1356, is a neglected area of potentially great value, as it stemmed from a failure of Bruce policies. -
Edward I and the Ritualization of English Royal Round Table Festivals
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Annales Angliae et Scotiae, a chronicle written around the year 1312 by a monk from the abbey of St Albans, there is a description of the wedding ceremonies between King Edward I and Margaret of France, that took place on 10 September 1299. -
Edward I, Arthurian Enthusiast
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe association of the kings of England with the legends of Arthur may be assumed to start with the dedication of one of the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae to... -
Exile from England: The Expulsion of the Jews in 1290
Posted on March 24, 2012 | No CommentsThis essay examines the relationship between the economy, the church, and the government of thirteenth century England, and her Jewish residents, in order to determine which, if any, had the greatest influence on the expulsion of the Jews, and in order to understand how one group of people—once vital to a nation—could be summarily expelled. -
Edward I and Wales
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe impact of the final Edwardian conquest of Wales 1277–83 was, it is true, greatly reduced by the fact that much of eastern and southern Wales had already been conquered in a piecemeal fashion over two centuries; the inhabitants of those districts had thereby had ample opportunity to come to terms with Anglo-Norman rule over many generations -
The Household knights of Edward I
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsEdward was not a king who was renowned for his generosity. However, the loyalty of the knights to their master suggests that the rewards they received were adequate. -
Rape in Medieval England: A Legal History, 1272-1307
Posted on December 19, 2011 | No CommentsMany historians have therefore concluded that although Westminster II’s rape laws were intended to halt the growing incidence of rape and facilitate prosecutions, they were evidently inadequate. -
Why Men Fought in the 100 Years War
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsPatriotism, propaganda, profit - Anthony Tuck finds that these were the motives that led Englishmen to fight in France. -
Cultural Rebellions: Welsh Literary Outpouring After The Thirteenth-Century Edwardian Conquest
Posted on October 11, 2011 | No CommentsCultural Rebellions: Welsh Literary Outpouring After The Thirteenth-Century Edwardian Conquest By J. Eric Moore Seniors Honors Thesis, Duke University, 2007 Introduction: The sun on December 11, 1282 dawned bright and... -
The Archers of Medieval England and Wales
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe Archers of Medieval England and Wales Wadge, Richard Published Online (2011) Abstract Three factors came together in the early fourteenth century: Legal The Norman French kings of England recognised... -
JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY: THE WALLS OF CONWY
Posted on April 10, 2011 | No CommentsJOURNEY OF DISCOVERY: THE WALLS OF CONWY Creighton, O.H, & Higham, R.A BBC History Magazine, June (2005) Abstract One of the best-preserved medieval walled towns anywhere in Europe, Conwy is set... -
Medieval Welsh Noblewomen: The Case of Margaret of Bromfield
Posted on March 14, 2009 | No CommentsMedieval Welsh Noblewomen: The Case of Margaret of Bromfield By Gwenyth Richards Eras, Vol. 3 (2002) Abstract: This paper presents the case of Margaret of Bromfield who was a Welsh noblewoman who... -
A Mediaeval Burglary
Posted on October 21, 2008 | No CommentsA 24-page lecture from 1915 about a little known burglary of King Edward I's treasure room in 1303. There remains some mystery of who did it, this real-life story has drama, interesting characters, scandal, cover-up, and provides a sense and feel of the times from a ground-up perspective. Includes a hand-drawn map and two relevant manuscript pages. -
The Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn, 1294-5
Posted on October 4, 2008 | No CommentsIn many quarters, no doubt, a smouldering resentment and a sense of shame helped to spread the leaven of unrest and dissatisfaction among the native population.
