Great Britain -- History -- Henry III, 1216-1272; Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272
[614] W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 244. There must have been many present who
had seen three coronations before Henry’s accession--those of Richard
in 1189 and 1195, and that of John in 1199. The _Ann. Dunst._, p. 57,
mention a detail which would have a special significance for those who
remembered Richard’s first crowning: “Judaei vero in Turri Lundoniarum
servabantur interim ad cautelam.” Roger of Wendover, vol. iv. p. 63,
says the crowning was at Canterbury, but he is certainly wrong. Cf.
_Hist. Ducs_, p. 208, and R. Coggeshall, p. 187. T. Wykes, a. 1220,
says: “Sane quia propter aetatis teneritudinem nondum sufficiens
fuerat [rex] ad regni gubernaculum, totius regni proceres providebant
sibi tutorem et custodem, virum summi discretionis et probitatis,
dominum Hubertum de Burgo, qui motus regis voluntarios refraenaret, ne
forte per immoderantiam lasciviret; factusque est justiciarius totius
Angliae, ut sua prudentia, qua caeteris praepollebat, regis et regni
negotia dispensaret.” And the Bermondsey Annals, a. 1220, say: “Hoc
anno Hubertus de Burgo factus est justiciarius totius Angliae,” while
the Waverley Annals make a like statement under the date 1219. These
entries seem to be all derived from a common source, and based upon a
mistake. There is superabundant documentary evidence that Hubert had
been justiciar uninterruptedly ever since 1215; if he had not been
reappointed at Henry’s accession, there could be no reason and no
occasion for him to be reappointed now; and his own words in 1239, as
given in the _Responsiones_, p. 64, distinctly imply that nothing of
the kind had ever taken place.
[615] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 170, 171, August, 1214.
[616] See above, p. 117.
[617] Before 4th Feb. 1215: _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 186 b.
[618] Before 8th December, 1215: _ib._ p. 241.
[619] The Archbishop’s appointment as seneschal is dated 28th March,
1217. _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 54.
[620] _Ib._ p. 152, 8th May, 1218.
[621] He was probably about the same age as Isabel, who was then
twenty-six. His parents had been married in 1181; but his mother--who
as the only child of the elder brother of Isabel’s father had claims on
Angoulême--must have been then so young that her son is not likely to
have been born till some years later.
[622] Of Jerusalem and Cyprus.
[623] _Foedera_, I. i. p. 159; _cf._ John’s treaty with the Lusignans,
_Charter Rolls_, p. 197 b.
[624] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. pp. 30, 31.
[625] _Ib._ pp. 37, 38.
[626] She was proposing to go in July, 1217, _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p.
113, _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 315, but seems not to have actually gone
till next year.
[627] _Hist. Ducs_, p. 206.
[628] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 73 b.
[629] _Ib._ p. 168 b.
[630] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. pp. 33, 34.
[631] Such at least was Hugh’s story: “non poterat exire de Rupella
sine commodatione praedictae pecuniae,” _ib._ p. 44.
[632] _Ib._ pp. 43–45.
[633] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 395 b, 16th July.
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