Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ‘Adam of Bristol’ and Tales of Ritual Crucifixion in Medieval England
- Ethics and Office in England in the Thirteenth Century
- Some Aspects of the Royal Itinerary in the Twelfth Century
- The minority governments of Henry III, Henry (VII) and Louis IX compared
- Scottish Queenship in the Thirteenth Century
- Ethnicity, personal names, and the nature of Scottish Europeanization
- Power, Preaching and the Crusades in Pura Wallia c.1180–c.1280
- A Forgotten War: England and Navarre, 1243·4
- The Appointment of Cardinal-deacon Otto as Legate in Britain (1237)
- Matthew Paris and John Mansel
- The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire
- Dynastic Conflict in thirteenth-century Laxton
- Absenteeism: The Chronology of a Concept
A Forgotten War: England and Navarre, 1243·4
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ‘Adam of Bristol’ and Tales of Ritual Crucifixion in Medieval England
- Ethics and Office in England in the Thirteenth Century
- Some Aspects of the Royal Itinerary in the Twelfth Century
- The minority governments of Henry III, Henry (VII) and Louis IX compared
- Scottish Queenship in the Thirteenth Century
- Ethnicity, personal names, and the nature of Scottish Europeanization
- Power, Preaching and the Crusades in Pura Wallia c.1180–c.1280
- A Forgotten War: England and Navarre, 1243·4
- The Appointment of Cardinal-deacon Otto as Legate in Britain (1237)
- Matthew Paris and John Mansel
- The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire
- Dynastic Conflict in thirteenth-century Laxton
- Absenteeism: The Chronology of a Concept
Summary
War is a theme so central to the history of thirteenth-century England that it is surprising that at least one of the wars fought by King Henry III appears entirely to have escaped the notice of English historians. Yet the war fought in southern Gascony in the 1240s between the supporters of Henry III and those of Theobald I King of Navarre, although briefly noticed by modern Spanish commentators, has elicited virtually no comment from the historians either of England or of Gascony. Matthew Paris devoted only a single sentence to the conflict, noting in his chronicle entry for 1244 that Nicholas de Molières, seneschal of Gascony, continued to prosecute war against Navarre and by his manful persistence obtained victory. Because modern English accounts are so dependent upon Paris for their narrative of thirteenth-century politics, Paris's omission of all details here has no doubt played a part in effacing the memory of a dispute which, even in the 1240s, was seen as at best tangential to English concerns. And yet, in the archives, sufficient evidence for this war survives to enable us to reconstruct its features in considerable detail: a reconstruction that, as we shall see, is not without significance for the wider history of English rule in Gascony and the south.
My chief source in what follows is a set of rolls detailing the Anglo-Navarrese disputes before, during and after the war of 1243–4, compiled in 1248–9 as part of the arbitration process to which claims for compensation were submitted by King Theobald of Navarre and by Simon de Montfort during his period of rule in Gascony.
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- Thirteenth Century England XIProceedings of the Gregynog Conference, 2005, pp. 109 - 146Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007