Free The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March by Ian Mortimer Page B

Kent (1320): 5, 19, 115, 129, 132, 239, 250
– role in St Sardos campaign: 137
– marries Margaret Wake: 285 (n. 32)
– role in 1326 invasion: 147, 151, 158–160
– role on regency council: 288 (n. 21)
– role in Weardale campaign: 177, 181, 183
– instigates grant to Roger: 201
– receives grant of Despenser manors: 202
– present at Edward II’s funeral: 246
– support of Henry of Lancaster 1328: 211, 216–218
– learns Edward II still alive: 216–217
– deserts Lancaster and joins Roger: 218, 220
– visits Pope at Avignon: 225
– plots restoration of Edward II: 225, 252
– returns to England: 229
– at coronation of Queen Philippa: 229
– seizure of at Winchester: 229
– trial, judgement and confession: 229–231, 240
– execution: 231–234, 247, 263
– forfeited estates: 234
– said to be innocent by Roger at his execution: 241, 268
– wife: see Wake, Margaret de
Edward I (1239–1307), King of England (1272): 7–8, 10–12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23–33, 54, 78, 135, 245
Edward II, ‘Edward of Carnarvon’ (b. 1284), Prince of Wales (to 1307), King of England (1307–1327): 1–5, 48
– as Prince of Wales: 14–16, 18–19, 22–26, 28–31
– accession: 32
– favouritism of Gaveston: 19, 33–39
– marriage to Isabella: 36–37
– coronation: 37–38
– in crisis of 1308: 38–40
– engineers Gaveston’s return from Ireland: 42–43
– reaction to Gaveston’s murder: 51–53, 55–56
– campaign in Scotland, 1313–14: 55–64
– involvement in Irish affairs, 1315–17: 69, 72
– reaction to grievances of Llywelyn Bren and subsequent revolt: 74–76
– reaction to Bristol insurrection: 77, 79–80
– appointment of Roger as King’s Lieutenant in Ireland: 81–83
– interference in Roger’s government of Ireland: 84–85, 87
– relations with Lancaster 1318: 90–92
– support of Hugh Despenser and civil war of 1321: 99–110
– attack on Badlesmere: 111–113
– moves against Mortimers: 113–116
– confiscation of Roger’s possessions: 116–121
– imprisonment of members of Mortimer family: 121
– defeat of Lancaster: 123–125
– government with Despenser: 126–128
– reaction to Roger’s escape from Tower: 132–134
– management of Gascon politics: 136–138
– ratification of treaty with France: 141–142
– attempts to persuade Isabella to return to England: 142–144, 147, 284 (n. 23)
– reaction to Isabella’s desertion: 144–147
– reaction to Roger and Isabella’s invasion: 150–153
– flees from invaders: 153–157, 251
– abandoned by his household servants: 157
– surrender and imprisonment at Kenilworth: 159–160, 251
– deposition and abdication: 165–170, 196, 251
– removal from Kenilworth to Berkeley: 173–174, 187, 239, 251, 254
– rescue from Berkeley and recapture 1327: 176–177, 184
– conditions of imprisonment at Berkeley: 185, 188, 190
– supposed death in 1327: 185–195, 197–199, 212, 239, 242–264
– removal from Berkeley Castle in secret: 252, 256
– supposed burial in 1327: 186, 188, 197–199, 244–247, 250, 255, 263–264
– secretly in custody 1327–1330: 217, 219–220, 244–252, 254, 256, 258, 262–263
– custody made known to the Pope: 225
– possible attempt to free him 1329: 227
– Kent’s attempt to free him 1330: 229, 252
– travels on the continent 1330–38: 252–254, 256, 258–263
– appearance in Cologne as William le Galeys/William the Welshman: 260–263, 302 (n. 47), 303 (n. 51)
Edward III (1312–1377), Duke of Aquitaine (1325), King of England (1327): 3–4, 255
– birth, 1312: 53
– betrothal: 136, 141
– journey to France 1325: 138–139
– performs homage for Gascony: 141–143
– as custodian of realm: 157–158, 165–166
– proclamation as king: 168, 170
– knighted: 170
– crowned: 170–171
– role in Weardale campain: 177–184
– heard news of his father’s supposed death: 185, 197
– told of his father’s survival: 198, 292 (n. 11)
– dependence on Roger: