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Primary Sources

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Annales Paulini 1307–1340, in Stubbs, Chronicles, Volume 1.

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Davies, James Conway, ‘The First Journal of Edward II’s Chamber’, English Historical Review, 30 (1915).

Devon, Frederick, Issues of the Exchequer: Being A Collection of Payments Made Out of His Majesty’s Revenue (London: John Murray, 1837).

Edwards, J. Goronwy, Calendar of Ancient Correspondence Concerning Wales (Cardiff: University Press Board, 1935).

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English Historical Documents, Vol. 3, 1189–1327, ed. Harry Rothwell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1975).

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Froissart: Chronicles, ed. Geoffrey Brereton (London: Penguin, 1978).

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook, translated by David Preest (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012).

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Gesta Edwardi de Carnarvon Auctore Canonico Bridlingtoniensi, in W. Stubbs, ed., Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, Volume 2 (London: Rolls Series, 76, 1883).

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Haskins, G. L., ‘A Chronicle of the Civil Wars of Edward II’, Speculum, 14 (1939).

Historia Anglicana, Vol. 1, ed. H. T. Riley (London: Longman, Green, 1863).

The Household Book of Queen Isabella of England: For The Fifth Regnal Year Of Edward II, 8th July 1311 To 7th July 1312, ed. F. D. Blackley and G. Hermansen (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1971).

Hallam, Elizabeth, The Itinerary of Edward II and His Household, 1307–1327 (London: List and Index Society, 1984).

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Le Livere de Reis de Britanie e le Livere de Reis de Engletere, ed. John Glover (London: Longman, Green, 1865).

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Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, monachi Cestrensis, Vol. 8, ed. J. R. Lumby (London: Longman, Green, 1865).

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Rhodes, Walter E., ‘The Inventory of the Jewels and Wardrobe of Queen Isabella (1307–8)’, EHR, 12 (1897).

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Stapleton, Thomas, ‘A Brief Summary of the Wardrobe Accounts of the tenth, eleventh, and fourteenth years of King Edward the Second’, Archaeologia, 26 (1836)

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Secondary Sources: Articles, Essays and Dissertations

Blackley, F. D., ‘Adam, the Bastard Son of Edward II’, BIHR, 37 (1964).

Blackley, F. D., ‘Isabella and the Bishop of Exeter’, in T. A. Sandqvist and M. R. Powicke, eds., Essays in Medieval History Presented to Bertie Wilkinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969).

Blackley, F. D., ‘Isabella of France, Queen of England (1308–1358) and the Late Medieval Cult of the Dead’, Canadian Journal of History, 14 (1980).

Bloom, J. Harvey, ‘Simon de Swanland and King Edward II’, Notes and Queries, 11th series, 4 (1911).

Brown, Elizabeth A. R., ‘The Political Repercussions of Family Ties in the Early Fourteenth Century: The Marriage of Edward II and Isabelle of France’, Speculum, 63 (1988).

Brown, Elizabeth A. R., ‘The Marriage of Edward II of England and Isabelle of France: A Postscript’, Speculum, 64 (1989).

Brown, Elizabeth A. R., ‘Diplomacy, Adultery and Domestic Politics at the Court of Philip the Fair: Queen Isabelle’s Mission to France in 1314’, in J. S. Hamilton, ed., Documenting the Past: Essays in Medieval History Presented to George Peddy Cuttino(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989).

Brown, Elizabeth A. R., and Degalado, Nancy Freeman, ‘Le grant feste: Philip the Fair’s Celebration of the Knighting of His Sons in Paris at Pentecost of 1313’, in Barbara Hanawalt and Kathryn Reyerson, eds., City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).

Buck, Mark, ‘The Reform of the Exchequer, 1316–1326’, EHR, 98 (1983).

Burgtorf, Jochen, ‘With my Life, his Joyes Began and Ended: Piers Gaveston and King Edward II of England Revisited’, FCE V, ed. Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2008).

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Childs, W. R., ‘Welcome, My Brother: Edward II, John of Powderham and the Chronicles, 1318’, in I. Wood and G. A. Loud, eds., Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to John Taylor (London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1991).

Childs, W. R., ‘England in Europe in the Reign of Edward II’, RENP.

Cobban, A. B., ‘Edward II, Pope John XXII, and the University of Cambridge’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 47 (1964–65).

Cuttino, G. P., and Lyman, T. W., ‘Where is Edward II?’, EHR, 53 (1978).

Davies, James Conway, ‘The Despenser War in Glamorgan’, TRHS, third series, 9 (1915).

Denholm-Young, N., ‘Edward III and Bermondsey Priory’, EHR, 48 (1933).

Dobrowolski, Paula, ‘Women and Their Dower in the Long Thirteenth Century 1265–1329’, Thirteenth-Century England VI, ed. Michael Prestwich, R. H. Britnell and Robin Frame (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1997).

Doherty, Paul, ‘The Date of Birth of Isabella, Queen of England’, BIHR, 48 (1975).

Dryburgh, Paul, ‘The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Edward II and Ireland, 1321–7’, RENP.

Dryburgh, Paul, ‘The Career of Roger Mortimer, first Earl of March (c. 1287–1330)’, Univ. of Bristol PhD thesis, 2002.

Edwards, Kathleen, ‘The Personal and Political Activities of the English Episcopate During the Reign of Edward II’, BIHR, 16 (1938).

Edwards, Kathleen, ‘The Political Importance of the English Bishops During the Reign of Edward II’, EHR, 59 (1944).

Edwards, J. G., ‘Sir Gruffydd Llwyd’, EHR, 30 (1915).

Frame, Robin, ‘Power and Society in the Lordship of Ireland, 1272–1377’, Past and Present, 76 (1977).

Fryde, E. B., ‘The Deposits of Hugh Despenser the Younger with Italian Bankers’, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 3 (1951).

Gibbs, V., ‘The Battle of Boroughbridge and the Boroughbridge Roll’, Genealogist, 21 (1905).

Haines, Roy Martin, ‘Bishops and politics in the reign of Edward II: Hamo de Hethe, Henry Wharton, and the ‘Historia Roffensis’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 44 (1993).

Haines, Roy Martin, ‘Sir Thomas Gurney of Englishcombe, Regicide?’, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History, 147 (2004).

Haines, Roy Martin, ‘The Stamford Council of April 1327’, EHR, 122 (2007).

Haines, Roy Martin, ‘Roger Mortimer’s Scam’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 126 (2008).

Haines, Roy Martin, ‘Sumptuous Apparel for a Royal Prisoner: Archbishop Melton’s letter, 14 January 1330’, EHR, 124 (2009).

Hallam, Elizabeth, ‘Royal Burial and the Cult of Kingship in France and England, 1066–1330’ JMH, 8 (1982).

Hamilton, J. S., ‘The Uncertain Death of Edward II’, History Compass, 6, 5 (2008).

Hamilton, J. S., ‘Charter Witness Lists for the Reign of Edward II’, Fourteenth Century England I, ed. Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000).

Hamilton, J. S., ‘Some Notes on ‘Royal’ Medicine in the Reign of Edward II’, Fourteenth Century England II, ed. Chris Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).

Hamilton, J. S., ‘The Character of Edward II: The Letters of Edward of Caernarfon Reconsidered’, RENP.

Hamilton, J. S., ‘A Reassessment of the Loyalty of the Household Knights of Edward II’, Fourteenth Century England VII, ed. Mark Ormrod (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012).

Haskins, G. L., ‘The Doncaster Petition of 1321’, EHR, 53 (1938).

Haskins, G. L., ‘Judicial Proceedings Against a Traitor after Boroughbridge’, Speculum, 12 (1937).

Holmes, G. A., The Estates of the Higher Nobility in Fourteenth-Century England (1957).

Holmes, G. A., ‘The Judgement on the Younger Despenser, 1326’, EHR, 70 (1955).

Holmes, G. A., ‘A Protest Against the Despensers, 1326’, Speculum, 30 (1955).

Hunter, Joseph, ‘Measures Taken for the Apprehension of Sir Thomas de Gurney, One of the Murderers of Edward II’, Archaeologia, 27 (1838).

Hunter, Joseph, ‘Journal of the Mission of Queen Isabella to the Court of France and of her long residence in that Country’, Archaeologia, 36 (1855).

Johnstone, Hilda, ‘Isabella, the She-wolf of France’, History, 21 (1936).

Johnstone, Hilda, ‘The Eccentricities of Edward II’, EHR, 48 (1933).

Johnstone, Hilda, ‘The Parliament of Lincoln, 1316’, EHR, 36 (1921).

Johnstone, Hilda, ‘The County of Ponthieu, 1279–1307’, EHR, 29 (1914).

Kilpatrick, Hannah, ‘Correction to Hoskins’ ‘Chronicle of the Civil Wars of Edward II’’, Notes and Queries, 58 (2011).

King, Andy, “Pur Salvation du Roiaume’: Military Service and Obligation in Fourteenth-Century Northumberland’, FCE II.

King, Andy, ‘Bandits, Robbers and Schavaldours: War and Disorder in Northumberland in the Reign of Edward II’, Thirteenth-Century England IX, ed. Michael Prestwich, Richard Britnell and Robin Frame (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2003).

King, Andy, ‘Thomas of Lancaster’s First Quarrel with Edward II’, Fourteenth Century England III, ed. W. M. Ormrod (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).

Lachaud, Frédérique, ‘Liveries of Robes in England, c.1200–c.1330’, EHR, 61 (1996).

Lawne, Penny, ‘Edmund of Woodstock (1301–1330): A Study of Personal Loyalty’, in Fourteenth Century England VI, ed. C. Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010).

Lawrence, Martyn, ‘Rise of a Royal Favourite: the Early Career of Hugh Despenser the Elder’, RENP.

Lawrence, Martyn, ‘Secular Patronage and Religious Devotion: the Despensers and St Mary’s Abbey, Tewkesbury’, Fourteenth Century England V, ed. Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2008).

Lawrence, Martyn, ‘Power, Ambition and Political Rehabilitation: the Despensers, c. 1281–1400’, Univ. of York DPhil thesis, 2005.

Linehan, Peter, ‘The English Mission of Cardinal Petrus Hispanus, the Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, and news from Castile at Carlisle (1307)’, EHR, 117 (2002).

Lord, Carla, ‘Queen Isabella at the Court of France’, FCE II.

Lucas, H. S., ‘The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316 and 1317’, Speculum, 5 (1930).

Lumsden, Andrew, ‘The fairy tale of Edward II’, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, March/April 2004.

Maddicott, J. R., ‘Thomas of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland: a Study in Noble Patronage’, EHR, 86 (1971).

Marshall, Alison, ‘The Childhood and Household of Edward II’s Half–Brothers, Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock’, RENP.

Marshall, Alison, ‘Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England: A Study in Early Fourteenth-Century Aristocracy’, Univ. of Bristol PhD diss., 2006.

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Prestwich, Michael, ‘The Unreliability of Royal Household Knights in the Early Fourteenth Century’, FCE II.

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