ABBREVIATED REFERENCES

The following abbreviations for frequently cited publications are used in the footnotes. The complete title is given for the first reference and short titles are used thereafter. The full details are given in the bibliography.

All manuscript references are to documents preserved in The National Archives (TNA), Kew, unless otherwise stated.

AN: Archives Nationales, Paris.

Ann. Lond.: Annales Londonienses, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, i, ed. W. Stubbs (London, 1882).

Ann. Paul.: Annales Paulini, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, i, ed. W. Stubbs (London, 1882).

Anonimalle: Anonimalle Chronicle 1307 to 1334, ed. W.R. Childs & J. Taylor, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, cxlvii, for the year 1987 (Leeds, 1991).

ASV: Archivio Segreto Vaticano.

Barrow: Barrow, G.W.S., Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland. Unless stated otherwise, the edition cited is the 3rd edn (Edinburgh, 1988).

BIHR: Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research.

BL: British Library.

Blaneford: Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blaneforde, Chronica et Annales, ed. H.T. Riley, Rolls Series (London, 1866).

BN: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Brown & Regalado: Brown, E.A.R & Regalado, N.F., ‘La Grant feste: Philip the Fair's celebration of the knighting of his sons in Paris at Pentecost of 1313’, in City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, ed. B.A. Hanawalt & K.L. Reyerson (Minneapolis, 1994).

Bruce: The Bruce, ed. A.A.M. Duncan (Edinburgh, 1997). Unless stated otherwise, this edition is the one cited.

Brut: The Brut, ed. F.W.D. Brie, Early English Text Society, cxxxi, part i (London, 1906).

Buck: Buck, M., Politics, Finance and the Church in the Reign of Edward II: Walter Stapeldon Treasurer of England, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3^rd ser., xix (Cambridge, 1983).

CCCC: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

CChR: Calendar of Charter Rolls (1903—)

CCR: Calendar of Close Rolls (1892—)

CCW: Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244–1326 (London, 1927).

CDI: Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, iv, 1292–1301, ed. H.S. Sweetman (London & Dublin, 1881).

CDS: Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, ii, iii, iv, ed. J. Bain (Edinburgh, 1884–7); v, ed. G.G. Simpson & J.D. Galbraith (Edinburgh, 1986).

CFR: Calendar of Fine Rolls (1911—)

Chaplais: Chaplais, P., Piers Gaveston: Edward II's Adoptive Brother (Oxford, 1994)

Chroniques de Sempringham: Chroniques de Sempringham: Livere des Reis de Britannie, ed. J. Glover, Rolls Series (London, 1865).

CIM: Calendar of Inquisitions, Miscellaneous (1916—).

CIPM: Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (1898—)

CMR, 1326–27: Calendar of Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer), Michaelmas 1326–Michaelmas 1327, ed. R.A. Latham (London, 1968).

CPL: Calendar of Papal Letters, 1305–42, ed. W.H. Bliss (London, 1895).

CPMR: Calendar of the Plea and Memoranda Rolls of the City of London, 1324–1457, ed. A.H. Thomas, i (London, 1926).

CPR: Calendar of Patent Rolls (1891—)

Doherty (D.Phil.): Doherty, P.C., ‘Isabella, Queen of England, 1296–1330’ (D.Phil., Oxford, 1977).

EHR: English Historical Review.

English Historical Documents: English Historical Documents, 1184–1327, ed. H. Rothwell (London, 1975).

Flores: Flores Historiarum, iii, ed. H.R. Luard, Rolls Series (London, 1890).

Foedera: Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae et Acta Publica, ed. T. Rymer, Record Commission edition, vols I, II (London, 1816–20).

French Chron.: French Chronicle of London, ed. G.J. Aungier, Camden Society, xxviii (London, 1844).

Froissart: Jean Froissart, Oeuvres de Froissart, ed. K. de Lettenhove, ii (Brussels, 1867).

Fryde: N. Fryde, The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II, 1321–1326 (Cambridge, 1979).

Gesta Edwardi: Gesta Edwardi de Carnarvon Auctore Canonico Bridlingtoniensi, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, ii, ed. W. Stubbs, Rolls Series (London, 1883).

GR: Gascon Rolls, 1307–1317, ed. Y. Renouard (London, 1962).

Gransden: Gransden, A., Historical Writing in England, i, c.550–c.1307; ii, c.1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century (London, 1974; 1982).

Guisborough: Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, ed. H. Rothwell, Camden, 3^rd series, lxxix (London, 1989).

Hamilton: Hamilton, J.S., Piers Gaveston: Earl of Cornwall, 1307–1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II (Detroit & London, 1988).

Harriss: Harriss, G.L., King, Parliament and Public Finance in England to 1369 (Oxford, 1975).

Historia Anglicana: Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, ed. H.T. Riley, Rolls Series, i (London, 1863).

HMC: Historical Manuscripts Commission.

IHS: Irish Historical Studies.

Johnstone: Johnstone, H., Edward of Carnarvon, 1284–1307 (Manchester, 1946).

Knighton: Chronicon Henrici Knighton, i, ed., J.R. Lumby, Rolls Series (London, 1889).

KW: Brown, R.A., Colvin, H.M. & Taylor, A.J., The History of the King's Works, i, ii, The Middle Ages (London, 1963).

Lanercost: Chronicon de Lanercost, ed. J. Stevenson, Maitland Club (Edinburgh, 1839).

Lay Taxes: Jurkowski, M., Smith, C.L. & Crook, D., Lay Taxes in England and Wales, 1186–1688, Public Record Office Handbook no. 31 (London, 1998).

Le Baker: Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke, ed. E.M. Thompson (Oxford, 1889).

Le Bel: Jean le Bel, Chronique de Jean le Bel, ed. J. Viard & E. Deprez, i, Société de l'Histoire de France (Paris, 1904).

McNamee: McNamee, C., The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306–1328 (East Linton, 1997).

Maddicott: Maddicott, J.R., Thomas of Lancaster, 1307–1322: A Study in the Reign of Edward II (Oxford, 1970).

Melsa: Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, ii, ed. E.A. Bond, Rolls Series (London, 1867).

Murimuth: Adæ Murimuth Continuatio Chronicarumi, ed. E.M. Thompson (London, 1889).

NHI: ed. A. Cosgrove, ed., A New History of Ireland, ii, Medieval Ireland, 1169–1534 (Oxford, 1987).

Oxford DNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (printed and online editions, Oxford, 2004).

Parliamentary Texts: Parliamentary Texts of the Later Middle Ages, ed. N. Pronay & J. Taylor (Oxford, 1980).

Phillips: Phillips, J.R.S., Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, 1307–24: Baronial Politics in the Reign of Edward II (Oxford, 1972).

Polychronicon: Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, viii, ed. J.R. Lumby, Rolls Series (London, 1882).

PROME: Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504, general editor C. Given-Wilson, digital edition (CD-ROM and online), Scholarly Digital Editions & The National Archives (Leicester, 2005). Printed edition in 16 vols (Woodbridge, Suffolk & Rochester, NY, 2005).

PW: Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, Edward I and Edward II, ed. F. Palgrave, Record Commission (London, 1827–34).

RDP: Reports from the Lords' Committees touching the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm, iii, (London, 1820–29).

Regesta Regum Scottorum: Regesta Regum Scottorum, v, The Acts of Robert I, ed. A.A.M. Duncan (Edinburgh, 1988).

RP: Rotuli Parliamentorum, i, ii, ed. J. Strachey et al. (London, 1767).

Saint-Sardos: The War of Saint-Sardos (1323–25): Gascon Correspondence and Diplomatic Documents, ed. P. Chaplais, Camden, 3rd ser., lxxxvii (London, 1954).

SAL: Society of Antiquaries of London.

Scalacronica: Sir Thomas Gray, Scalacronica, 1272–1363, ed. and trans. A. King, Surtees Society, ccix (Woodbridge, Suffolk, & Rochester, NY, 2005). Unless stated otherwise, this edition is the one cited.

Scotichronicon: Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, vi, viii, ed. D.E.R. Watt (Aberdeen, 1991, 1987).

Select Documents: Select Documents of English Constitutional History, 1307–1485, ed. S.B. Chrimes & A.L. Brown (London, 1961).

SHR: Scottish Historical Review.

SR: Statutes of the Realm, i, ed. A. Luders et al. (Record Commission, London, 1810).

TRHS: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.

Trivet (Cont.): Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio, ed. A. Hall (Oxford, 1722).

Trokelowe: Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blaneforde, Chronica et Annales, ed. H.T. Riley, Rolls Series (London, 1866).

Vale: Vale, M., The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250–1340 (Oxford, 1990).

VCH: Victoria County History.

Vita: Vita Edwardi Secundi, ed. W.R. Childs (Oxford, 2005). Unless stated otherwise, this edition is the one cited and not the older edition, ed. N. Denholm-Young (London, 1957).

Vita et Mors: Vita et Mors Edwardi Secundi, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, ii, ed. W. Stubbs, Rolls Series (London, 1883).

Map 1 England and Scotland in the regin of Edward II.

Map 2 Ireland at the time of Edward Bruce's invasion (1315–18).

Map 3 Wales: the Principality and the March.

Map 4 France, the Low Countries, parts of the Rhineland and northwest Italy.