Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Royal Mausolea in the Long Fourteenth Century (1272-1422)
- Legal Culture: Medieval Lawyers’ Aspirations and Pretensions
- Thomas of Lancaster’s First Quarrel with Edward II
- Bristol and the Crown, 1326-31: Local and National Politics in the Early Years of Edward III’s Reign
- Mapping Identity in John Trevisa’s English Polychronicon: Chester, Cornwall and the Translation of English National History
- Edward the Black Prince and East Anglia: An Unlikely Association
- William Wykeham and the Management of the Winchester Estate, 1366-1404
- A Lancastrian Polity? John of Gaunt, John Neville and the War with France, 1368-88
- ‘Hearts warped by passion’: The Percy-Gaunt, Dispute of 1381
- The Reasons for the Bishop of Norwich’s Attack of Flanders in 1383
- Loyalty, Honour and the Lancastrian Revolution: Sir Stephen Scrope of Castle Combe and his Kinsmen, c.1389-c.1408
- The Furnishing of Royal Closets and the Use of Small Devotional Images in the Reign of Richard II: The Setting of the Wilton Diptych Reconsidered
- ‘Weep thou for me in France’: French Views of the Deposition of Richard II
Edward the Black Prince and East Anglia: An Unlikely Association
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Royal Mausolea in the Long Fourteenth Century (1272-1422)
- Legal Culture: Medieval Lawyers’ Aspirations and Pretensions
- Thomas of Lancaster’s First Quarrel with Edward II
- Bristol and the Crown, 1326-31: Local and National Politics in the Early Years of Edward III’s Reign
- Mapping Identity in John Trevisa’s English Polychronicon: Chester, Cornwall and the Translation of English National History
- Edward the Black Prince and East Anglia: An Unlikely Association
- William Wykeham and the Management of the Winchester Estate, 1366-1404
- A Lancastrian Polity? John of Gaunt, John Neville and the War with France, 1368-88
- ‘Hearts warped by passion’: The Percy-Gaunt, Dispute of 1381
- The Reasons for the Bishop of Norwich’s Attack of Flanders in 1383
- Loyalty, Honour and the Lancastrian Revolution: Sir Stephen Scrope of Castle Combe and his Kinsmen, c.1389-c.1408
- The Furnishing of Royal Closets and the Use of Small Devotional Images in the Reign of Richard II: The Setting of the Wilton Diptych Reconsidered
- ‘Weep thou for me in France’: French Views of the Deposition of Richard II
Summary
As his titles suggest, Edward the Black Prince, earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, lord of Vizcaya and Castro Urdiales, did not have great landed estates in East Anglia. Yet it was from there, and particularly from Norfolk, that he drew a significant number of his affinity: well over fifty individuals, and among them some of the key members of his administration and military retinue.
Through the ‘foreign manors’ associated with the prince’s demesne lands, particularly those of the duchy of Cornwall, estates were held throughout the country, including East Anglia. The most significant of these had previously been the honor of Eye, but this had passed to the Ufford earls of Suffolk with whom the prince was to establish close links. The prince’s interests in the region were not extensive and his chief Norfolk estate did not come under his full control until 1358. It was then, with the death of his grandmother, Isabella, that the prince acquired Castle Rising and a share of the associated tollbooth at Lynn. Neither the valor which was completed on the prince’s death nor his inquisition post mortem indicate any other holdings in Norfolk, although his marriage to Joan of Kent did provide their joint estate with property in Ormsby, two manors in Suffolk and various rights and holdings in Essex. The limited nature of the prince’s territorial interests is also indicated by the fact that the keepers of his fees in Norfolk and Suffolk always worked in a variety of counties and not always nearby.
In the church of St Margaret in King’s Lynn is a misericord on which is carved the arms of the prince of Wales and of the duke of Brittany (who received Castle Rising after the Black Prince’s death), between which is the face of an unspecified royal figure, presumably Edward III. For the clergy and congregation of St Margaret’s at least, the prince was or had been a significant presence. For the local aristocracy he was also an important figure, but by virtue of his status and not because of the property that he held in the region.
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- Fourteenth Century England , pp. 83 - 98Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004
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