John Lackland. Kate Norgate
Cf. Gesta Hen. vol. i. pp. 280, 287, and Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 358.
[76] Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 359.
[77] Ib. pp. 359, 360; Four Masters, a. 1185.
[78] Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 380.
[79] Four Masters, a. 1185.
[80] Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 381.
[81] Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 389.
[82] Gesta Hen. vol. i. p. 339.
[83] Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 386; Four Masters, a. 1185.
[84] Gesta Hen. vol. i. p. 339.
[85] Four Masters, a. 1185.
[87] Four Masters, l.c.; Ann. Loch Cé, a. 1185.
[88] Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 392.
[89] In several of John’s Irish charters granted during his father’s lifetime he styles himself simply “Johannes filius Regis”; when he does use a title, it is “Dominus Hiberniae,” or, apparently, in one case (Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Report, p. 231), “Dux Hiberniae.”
[90] Gesta Hen. vol. i. p. 161.
[92] R. Howden, vol. ii. pp. 306, 307. No such bull is now known, but there seems no reason to doubt the story.
[93] Gerv. Cant. vol. i. p. 346; Gesta Hen. vol. ii. pp. 3, 4; R. Diceto, vol. ii. p. 47.
[94] Cf. Gesta Hen. vol. i. pp. 350, 361; Four Masters, a. 1186; Gir. Cambr. vol. v. p. 387, and R. Diceto, vol. ii. p. 34, who gives the day of Hugh’s death—July 25—but under a wrong year.
[95] Gerv. Cant. vol. i. p. 346; Gesta Hen. vol. ii. p. 4.
[96] Gesta Hen. vol. ii. p. 4.
[97] Ib. Cf. R. Diceto, vol. ii. p. 47.
[98] Gesta Hen. vol. ii. p. 6.
[100] Rigord, c. 52 (ed. Delaborde, p. 180).
[101] Ib. Cf. Gerv. Cant. vol. i. p. 369.
[102] Gir. Cambr. vol. viii. pp. 232, 233.
[103] Gesta Hen. vol. ii. p. 9.
[105] R. Howden, vol. ii. p. 362.
[106] Gesta Hen. vol. ii. p. 66.
[107] R. Howden, vol. ii. p. 363.
[108] Hist. de G. le Mar. vv. 8542–4.
[109] Gir. Cambr. vol. iv. p. 369.
[110] Gerald indeed (l.c.) says: “In crastino vero … versus Andegaviam rege properante, fidei tamen sacramentique vinculis senescallo Normanniae Guillelmo Radulphi filio et comite Guillelmo de Mandeville ante constrictis, de munitionibus Normanniae cunctis, siquid de ipso sinistrum fore contigerit, filio suo juniori Johanni reddendis, quanquam tamen et ipse ab eodem, proh dolor! paulo post discesserit.” But it looks very much as if “post” here were a mistake for “ante,” for the whole story indicates that John was not at La Frênaye on the night of June 12. Cf. W. Newb. l. iii. c. 25: “Tunc” (after the flight from Le Mans) “Johannes filiorum ejus minimus, quem tenerrime diligebat, recessit ab eo”; and Gesta Hen. vol. ii. p. 72: “Johannes filius ejus, qui mortis suae occasio, immo causa praecipua fuerat, eo quod illum tempore guerrae, cum capta esset civitas Cenomannis, reliquerat.” These two writers, indeed, taken by themselves, would seem to imply that John’s desertion was open; but Henry’s charge to the two Norman barons, and his subsequent horror at the final discovery of John’s treason, indicate that it was managed with a refinement of duplicity which is really more in accord with John’s character.
[111] Hist. de G. le Mar. vv. 9077–8.
CHAPTER II
JOHN COUNT OF MORTAIN
1189–1199
Then ther com most wykke tydyng
To Quer de Lyoun Richard our kyng,
How off Yngelonde hys brother Ihon,
That was accursyd off flesch and bon,
… …
… wolde with