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Lewes - page 6 |
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Sunday October 26, 2008 |
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Notes on The Battle of Lewes by Sir Charles Oman |
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| 1 | See Annals of Dunstable |
| 2 | Wykes 1264 |
| 3 | Knighton |
| 4 | Wykes 1264 |
| 5 | Blaaw and Prothero seem undoubtedly right on this point of topography |
| 6 | Rishanger p.3 |
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Including Simon de Montfort the Younger, Peter de Montfort and his sons Peter and William, Adam of Newmarch, one of the greatest of the barons of the Welsh border, Baldwin Wake, William de Furnival, all captured at Northampton, William Bardolf, captured at Nottingham, and the young Earl of Derby, who had keen taken in his own castle of Tutbury |
| 8 | Simon had broken his leg in the previous year, and was forced to use this carriage for many months |
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Of the twenty-four laymen who signed for the barons' party in 2263, the following were at Lewes -Earl Simon, Ralph Basset, William le Blound, Humphrey de Bohun, John de Burgh, Hugh Despenser, John Fitz-John, Henry de Hastings, Henry de Montfort, William de Montchensy, Nicholas de Segrave, Robert de Ros, Geoffrey de Lucy, John de Vesey, Richard de Vipont-fifteen in all. Simon junior de Montfort, Peter de Montfort, Adam of Newmarch, Baldwin Wake, William Marshall, had been captured at Northampton; William Bardolf at Nottingham. Richard de Grey was holding Dover CaSfle. Nothing is known as to the whereabouts of Walter de Colville and Robert de Toeny |
| 10 | H. Knighton, p.247 of Rolls Series edition |
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There are some difficulties in the array of the Royalists, as in that of the baronial host. On the whole I am compelled to conclude that Earl Richard led the centre, and the king the southern wing. I imagine that the position of the king on the left must have been due merely to the hurry and haste of the muster. Being encamped in the priory, he drew up in front of it. For by all medieval military etiquette he should have led the right or centre, and not taken the post of least honour. Hut there was no time to rearrange the host, and each body fell into line as best it could |
| 12 | "Paene primus H. de Hastings, audaciae formidinem anteponens, e proelio fugit" (Wykes. 1264) |
| 13 | Chronicle de Mailros 1264 |
| 14 | Some of the Royalist chroniclers call the chariot a "vas dolositatis," and say that Simon hung his banner on it and placed it on the height specially to distract the enemy from the main battle. This is most improbable; he would certainly not have exposed to certain death Le Blound, one of his most trusted followers, and the whole affair was (no doubt) a mere chance |
| 15 | Chronicle of Lanercost. This authority has some graphic touches given on the authority of an eye-witness, hut is often vague and erroneous e.g. it says that the barons formed only three battles, and that one of them was led by Hugh le Despenser |
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