Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Preface to second edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Charter and its history
- 2 Government and society in the twelfth Century
- 3 Privilege and liberties
- 4 Custom and law
- 5 Justice and jurisdiction
- 6 Crisis and civil war
- 7 Quasi Pax
- 8 The quality of the Great Charter
- 9 The achievement of 1215
- 10 From distraint to war
- 11 The re-issues and the beginning of the myth
- Appendices
- 1 The meeting at Bury St Edmunds, 1214
- 2 Notification of Thomas count of Perche, February 1215
- 3 Triplex forma pacis
- 4 The ‘unknown’ charter
- 5 The Articles of the Barons
- 6 Magna Carta, 1215
- 7 Translations of the Charters
- 8 The Twenty-Five barons of Magna Carta, 1215
- 9 The date of the London treaty
- 10 The Oxford Council, 16-23 July 1215
- 11 Select documents illustrative of the history of Magna Carta, 1215
- 12 Magna Carta, 1225
- 13 Charter of the Forest, 1225
- 14 Liberties and perpetuity
- References
- Index
8 - The Twenty-Five barons of Magna Carta, 1215
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Preface to second edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Charter and its history
- 2 Government and society in the twelfth Century
- 3 Privilege and liberties
- 4 Custom and law
- 5 Justice and jurisdiction
- 6 Crisis and civil war
- 7 Quasi Pax
- 8 The quality of the Great Charter
- 9 The achievement of 1215
- 10 From distraint to war
- 11 The re-issues and the beginning of the myth
- Appendices
- 1 The meeting at Bury St Edmunds, 1214
- 2 Notification of Thomas count of Perche, February 1215
- 3 Triplex forma pacis
- 4 The ‘unknown’ charter
- 5 The Articles of the Barons
- 6 Magna Carta, 1215
- 7 Translations of the Charters
- 8 The Twenty-Five barons of Magna Carta, 1215
- 9 The date of the London treaty
- 10 The Oxford Council, 16-23 July 1215
- 11 Select documents illustrative of the history of Magna Carta, 1215
- 12 Magna Carta, 1225
- 13 Charter of the Forest, 1225
- 14 Liberties and perpetuity
- References
- Index
Summary
Three lists of the Twenty-Five barons have been known since Blackstone's day: one in the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris, one in his Liber Additamentorum, and one in a marginal annotation in a late thirteenth-century collection of law tracts and Statutes. The first two are identical and are based on the same source. The third is the best of the three. It has Rogerus de Mumbezon correctly where Matthew Paris erred into the form Rogerus de Munbrai.
The Twenty-Five were Richard, earl of Cläre, William de Fors, count of Aumale, Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Gloucester, Saer de Quincy, earl of Winchester, Henry de Bohun, earl of Hereford, Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk, Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, William Marshai junior, Robert fitz Walter, Gilbert de Cläre, Eustace de Vescy, Hugh Bigod, William de Mowbray, the Mayor of London, William de Lanvallei, Robert de Ros, John de Lacy, constable of ehester, Richard de Percy, John fitz Robert, William Malet, Geoffrey de Say, Roger de Montbegon, William of Huntingfield, Richard de Munfichet and William d'Aubigné of Belvoir.
A fourth list which was discovered by Cheney (1968) in a Reading Abbey MS in Lambeth Palace Library can now be added. This is printed below. Like the St Albans versions this list names Roger de Mowbray in error for Roger de Montbegon. It also names the earl of Arundel mistakenly for the count of Aumale.
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- Magna Carta , pp. 478 - 480Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992