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Authors: Alison Weir
Tags: #Biography, #Historical, #Europe, #Social Science, #General, #Great Britain, #To 1500, #Biography & Autobiography, #History, #Women's Studies, #Nobility, #Women
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Complete Peerage
; Chancery Records: C.81; Special Collections: S.C.8
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Rotuli Parliamentorum
; Somerville; McKisack
3
Froissart; Rose; Goodman:
John of Gaunt
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Calendar of Close Rolls
. I have found no other record of the lands Katherine held in Leicester, Northamptonshire and Norfolk prior to her marriage to John of Gaunt.
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
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A Collection of All the Wills …
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Now No. 2, Minster Yard. Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, Dean and Chapter Acts, Liber VI (i), ff.2, 3; Major; Jones, Major, Varley and Johnson
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These measurements cannot have been taken very accurately as the remains of the mediaeval hall measure 44’ by 26’.
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For the Priory, see Jones, Major, Varley and Johnson; Major; Silva-Vigier; Pevsner and Harris; Jones:
Four Minster Houses; Calendar of Patent Rolls.
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Early Lincoln Wills.
His name is also given as Peter Dalton.
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Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
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Special Collections: S.C.8; Exchequer Records: E.403;
Calendar of Patent Rolls
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Chronicque de la traïson et mort de Richart Deux
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Trokelowe
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Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Chute; Lucraft:
Katherine Swynford
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
18
Crow and Olsen
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He was also required to surrender the Warwick lands to the King.
Rotuli Parliamentorum
20
Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Exchequer Records: E.28
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
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Lucraft:
Katherine Swynford
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The site is now occupied by the Henry VII Chapel.
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The date usually given for Chaucer’s death, 25 October 1400, was inscribed on the Tudor tomb, and may well have been copied from the original epitaph plate that was displayed in the Abbey. Chaucer’s bones were uncovered in 1889 when Robert Browning was buried in Poet’s Corner, and the coroner then estimated that he had been about 5′6″ tall. There are no grounds for accepting recent assertions that he was murdered on the orders of Henry IV (Jones:
Who Murdered Chaucer
).
25
Goodman:
Honourable Lady; Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Exchequer Records: E.28
26
Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
. Perry suggests that the reference was to Sir Norman Swynford, but this is unlikely in view of evidence from the Exchequer Records that will shortly be cited in the text.
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Bruce; Wylie; Beltz
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Given-Wilson:
Royal Household
29
Duchy of Lancaster Records: DL.42
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Duchy of Lancaster Records: DL.29
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Blomefield and Parkin; Lucraft:
Katherine Swynford
; Perry
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Norris
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Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan;
Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres
34
Duchy of Lancaster Records: DL.42, DL.49
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Exchequer Records: E.101;
Calendar of Close Rolls
36
Calendar of Patent Rolls; Calendar of Close Rolls
37
Ibid.
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Archaeological Journal
, XXXI, London, 1874
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Foedera
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In 1406, Isabella married Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans. She died in childbirth in 1409.
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
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Harriss; McGrath
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Calendar of Close Rolls
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Walsingham
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Duchy of Lancaster Records: DL.28
46
Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Harriss
47
Rotuli Parliamentorum
; Trokelowe; Walsingham
48
Exchequer Records: E.404, E.101; Goodman:
Marriage of Henry IV
49
Calendar of Patent Rolls
50
Ibid.;
Calendar of Close Rolls
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Complete Peerage; Desiderata Curiosa
; Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, Chapter Acts A.ii.29, ff.2, 3
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Harvey: ‘Catherine Swynford’s Chantry’
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Duffy
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Duchy of Lancaster Records: DL.29, DL.42
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Lucraft: ‘Missing From History’;
Katherine Swynford
; Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
. The Prerogative Court of Canterbury records are in the National Archives.
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Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, Bj.2.10
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Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan;
Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres
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Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments; Jones, Major, Varley and Johnson; Weir: English Aristocratic Pedigrees
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Wickenden
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
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Calendar of Patent Rolls; Excerpta Historica
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Lucraft: ‘Missing From History’;
Katherine Swynford; A Collection of All the Wills …
; Jamieson. The hospital was demolished in 1825.
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Leese; Lambeth Palace MS. 20, f.173v;
A Collection of All the Wills …
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Hicks
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Duffy;
A Collection of All the Wills …
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Harriss, for example.
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Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers; Cartae et Munimenta de Glamorgan
;
www.rootsweb.com
; Verity: ‘A Non-Affair to Remember’. Joan married Sir Edward Stradling of St Donat’s, Glamorganshire (1389–1453), by whom she had a son, Henry.
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Vale. The portrait is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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Calendar of Patent Rolls; Calendar of Close Rolls
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
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Worcestre
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Dictionary of National Biography
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Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan; Perry
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Chronicles and Memorials of St Edmund’s Abbey
; Leese;
Antiquarian Repertory
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Lucraft:
Katherine Swynford
; Armitage-Smith;
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
; Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan. The book that Thomas Hoccleve dedicated to Joan is Cosin MS. V.iii.9 at Durham University.
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Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Harvey: ‘Catherine Swynford’s Chantry’; ‘Inventories of Plate’; Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan; Given-Wilson;
Collections Relative to … the Diocese of York
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Harvey: ‘Catherine Swynford’s Chantry’; Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan
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Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan
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Duffy; Sandford; Harvey: ‘Catherine Swynford’s Chantry’;
A Collection of All the Wills
…; Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
. Her arms were noted around 1600 by Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald.
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The Neville Book of Hours is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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Goodman: Redoubtable Countess Joan
84
English Historical Documents
85
Griffiths and Thomas
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Perry; Goodall
87
Foedera
88
Perry
89
Calendar of Patent Rolls
; Manly:
Some New Light on Chaucer; Excerpta Historica
90
Hunter
91
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
92
Cole. Thomas Beaufort left him 50 marks (£7, 076) in his will.
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Campling
94
Elder
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Calendar of Patent Rolls
96
Excerpta Historica
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Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
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Cole
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Ibid.
100
For Kettlethorpe, see
www.kettlethorpe.com
; Leese; Perry; Goodman:
John of Gaunt; Katherine Swynford
; Cole;
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Silva-Vigier; Lucraft: ‘Missing From History’
102
The epitaph was recorded by Weever. The Latin inscription was recorded by Anthony Munday in 1618, in his extended edition of Stow’s
Survey of London
.
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Exchequer Records: E.301; Dugdale:
History of St Paul’s
104
Holland
105
B.L. Lansdowne MS. 874, f.115
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Benham
107
Dugdale:
History of St Paul’s
108
Sandford
109
Ibid.; Duffy
110
Arnold
111
Leland:
Itinerary
112
Dugdale: Book of Monuments
113
Harvey: ‘Catherine Swynford’s Chantry’; Duffy; Goodman:
Katherine Swynford
114
Duchy of Lancaster Records: DL.43
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John Evelyn, the seventeenth-century diarist, noted that ‘the soldiers had lately knocked off most of the brasses from the gravestones’.
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Kendrick:
Cathedral Church of Lincoln
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Dugdale:
Monasticon
. A drawing of the repositioned tombs was made in 1809
by John Buckler (B.L. Additional MS. 36369, f.87), which is reproduced in Harvey: ‘Catherine Swynford’s Chantry’.
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Lincoln Cathedral Dean and Chapter Muniments, AIV 15; Jones, Major, Varley and Johnson
119
Payn Roët’s epitaph in St Paul’s Cathedral, cited by Silva-Vigier
1
The Austin Chronicle
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Goodman:
John of Gaunt
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Cantor
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The date is sometimes incorrectly given as 1904 or 1916.
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Anya Seton’s personal papers are held in the archives of the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, and biographical details of her appear on many internet sites; of these, I am indebted chiefly to ‘The Setons: The Setons at Home’, by Lucinda H. MacKethan of North Carolina State University (
www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080
).
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BBC: The Big Read
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‘National Review Online’ (
www.nationalreview.com
)
Alison Weir
is one of the world’s foremost popular historians. Her books include
Britain’s Royal Families;
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
;
Children of England
;
Henry VIII: King and Court
;
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
;
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
; and most recently the novel
Innocent Traitor
. She lives and works in Surrey, England.
Text copyright © 2007 Alison Weir
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