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Coronation of Edward II and Isabella is in 1300-1309 Scottish Succession.
On 25th February 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23) was crowned II King of England at Westminster Abbey [Map] by Henry Woodlock, Bishop of Winchester. Isabella of France Queen Consort England (age 13) was crowned Queen Consort England.
Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 24) carried the Royal Crown.
William Marshal 1st Baron Marshal (age 30) carried the Gilt Spurs.
Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 32) carried the Royal Sceptre.
Edmund Fitzalan 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel (age 22) was Chief Butler, a heriditary office.
Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 27) carried the Royal Rod.
Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 30) carried the sword Curtana.
Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 20) carried the table bearing the Royal Robes.
Thomas Grey (age 28) and Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 61) attended.
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In 1308 Henry Tregoz 1st Baron Tregoz (age 58) and his wife were summoned to the Coronation of Edward II and Isabella.
Close Rolls Edward II 1307-1313. 8th February 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23). Dover, Kent [Map]. To William Leybourne. Order to attend the king's coronation with his wife on Sunday next after the feast of St Valentine.
The like to seventy others in various counties.
Life of Edward II of Carnarvan by a Monk of Bridlington. In the same year, on the twenty-fourth day of February [1308]1, the same lord king was crowned at London with the queen, in the presence of the magnates of England and France, the solemn rites being performed by Roger de Wodelok, Bishop of Winchester, because Robert of Winchelsea, Archbishop of Canterbury, was at that time in exile. There arose there a quarrel between the nobles of England and Sir Piers Gaveston, to whom the king had previously given the earldom of Cornwall, through whom foreigners were occupying the secret and lucrative offices of the royal household. The king also clung to him excessively, showing little regard for the English. Indeed, the attraction of foreigners and their retention, frequent association with them, and the indiscriminate distribution of goods and benefices without consulting the magnates of the realm, estranged the hearts of the nobles from their lord the king and furnished matter for envy and hatred between them and the Earl of Cornwall.
ltem anno eodem, XXIIIIto die Februari, idem dominus rex cum regina Londoniis coronatur astantibus magnatibus Angliæ et Franciæ, domino Rogero de Wodelok episcopo Wyntoniensi solempnia celebrante, eo quod Robertus de Wynchelse archiepiscopus Cantuariensis tunc temporis exulavit. Ibidem orta est discordia inter proceres Angliæ et dominum Petrum de Gavastone, cui dominus rex prius dedit comitatum Cornubiæ, per quem alienigene domus regis officia secreta et pinguia occupabant, cui etiam rex nimis adhæsit Anglicos parvipendens; attractus siquidem alienigenarum et retentio, frequens cum eisdem communicatio, necnon inconsultis regni proceribus bonorum et beneficiorum indiscreta distributio, a domino suo rege corda magnatum distrahebant, ac inter ipsos et comitem Cornubiæ invidiæ et odii materiam ministrabant.
Note 1. Most sources give the date as 25th February 1308.
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Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. From there, the King of England, with his wife and a great retinue of nobles, returned to England on the 5th of February. That same year, on the 25th of February,1 bearing the royal crown, he solemnized his own coronation along with the newly crowned Queen at Westminster on Quinquagesima Sunday.
Abinde rex Anglie cum uxore sua et magna nobilium comitiva V die Februarii ad Angliam reversus, eodem anno, VIJ kalendas Marcii, regiam portans coronam, cum regina coronata, apud Westmonasterium, Dominicam in Quinquagesima solemnizavit.
Note 1. The text reads "7th Calends of March" i.e. 23rd February. The Coronation took place on the 25th. The sixth day before the Kalends of March is the 24th February. However, 1308 was a leap-year. At the time, rather than add an extra day to February, the calendar inserted a second 24th of March, which was known as the "bisextus" or "twice sixth". In a leap year the Church held that St Matthias's Feast Day, usually the 24th of March, was held on the "twice sixth" i.e. the 25th March in the modern calendar.
Thomas Walsingham [~1422]. In the same year, on the sixth day before the Kalends of March1 [25th February 1308], that is, on the Feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle, the King and Queen were, with the greatest solemnity, magnificently crowned at Westminster by the Bishop of Winchester, acting under the commission of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was in exile. On the day the King was to be crowned, in the presence of Charles and Louis, counts and uncles of the Queen, of John, Duke of Brabant, and Margaret, Duchess, the Count of Savoy, and many other nobles, the earls and barons of the realm of England discussed the state of the kingdom, and requested of the King the removal of Piers Gaveston from the realm. But the King was unwilling to consent. Therefore, the earls proposed to prevent the royal coronation. When the King became aware of this, he promised in good faith that he would do for them in the next Parliament whatever they might ask, only that the coronation should not be delayed. Meanwhile, the King sent for the regalia of Saint Edward from the monks' church there, intending that after Mass he would return to the palace and sit down to the banquet. By right, the Chancellor of the realm and the Treasurer, if they were priests, ought to carry before the King the chalice of Saint Edward with the paten. But the King, instead of giving them to those to whom they belonged, voluntarily distributed portions of the regalia of Saint Edward, namely the cross, the sceptre, the rod, the spurs, and the swords. But the crown of Saint Edward he entrusted to Piers to carry in his defiled hands, for which reason, and not without cause, both people and clergy were indignant. The crowd was so tightly packed that a certain knight, John de Blakewell, who had long been an enemy of that church, died without the sacrament. Nor did the violence of the people spare either the King to be crowned or the bishops who were to crown him. And so, with great haste and almost without reverence, this solemnity was completed. On that day, the Mass in the church was finished after the ninth hour (mid-afternoon), and the banquet in the palace at night.
Eodem anno, sexto Kalendas Martii, die videlicet Sancti Matthiæ Apostoli, Rex et Regina cum solemnitate maxima apud Westmonasterium ab Episcopo Wyntoniensi, commissione Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis exulantis, magnifice coronatur. In die quo Rex debebat coronari, coram Karolo et Lodewico Comitibus, patruis Reginæ, Johanne Duce Brabantiæ, et Margareta Ducissa, Comite Sabaudiæ, et multis aliis nobilibus, tractaverunt Comites et Barones regni Angliæ de statu regni, petieruntque a Rege amotionem Petri de Gaverstone a regno; sed Rex noluit consentire. Ideirco proposuerunt Comites coronationem regiam impedire. Quod Rex intelligens, promisit bona fide se facturum illis in Parliamento proximo quicquid peterent, tantum ne coronatio differatur. Interim, Rex misit post Regale Sancti Edwardi in ecclesia monachorum ibidem, in quo post Missam est in palatium reversurus, et ad prandium est sessurus. Cancellarius regni et Thesaurarius de jure portare debent calicem Sancti Edwardi cum patena, si presbyteri fuerint, ante Regem: tradidit autem Rex non quibus debebat, sed voluntarie portiunculas Regalis Sancti Edwardi, puta crucem, sceptrum, virgam, calcaria, et gladios; sed coronam Sancti Edwardi tradidit Petro ad portandum manibus inquinatis, ex quo non immerito indignati sunt populus atque clerus. Fuit autem ibi tanta compressio populi, ut quidam miles, Johannes de Blakewelle, qui ab antiquo hostis illius ecclesiæ fuerat, sine viatico expiraret. Sed nec Regi coronando, nec Episcopis, ipsum coronaturis, pepercit violentis populi. Et ideo, cum festinatione nimia, et quasi sine reverentis, fuit ista solemnizatio consummata. Illo die, Missa in ecclesia din post nonam, et prandium in palatio de nocte, sunt finita.
Note 1. The sixth day before the Kalends of March is the 24th of February. However, 1308 was a leap-year. At the time, rather than add an extra day to February, the calendar inserted a second 24th of February, which was known as the "bisextus" or "twice sixth". In a leap year the Church held that St Matthias's Feast Day, usually the 24th of February, was held on the "twice sixth" i.e. the 25th of February in the modern calendar.
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Annales Paulini. Around the same time the king hastened to have his coronation celebrated at Westminster on Quinquagesima Sunday, the feast of Saint Matthias, in a leap year, on the twenty-fifth day of February [1308]. Because Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, was absent and suspended from office, the pope proposed sending a cardinal to crown the king in England. The king would not permit this, but, sending messengers, requested that he be consecrated king by the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of Durham and London. Commission and authority were accordingly granted to them to crown the king solemnly. In those same days, however, the Archbishop of Canterbury found favor before the pope and was restored to his former rank; many privileges of Christ Church, Canterbury, were ratified, along with other matters he had sought to have confirmed or granted. The Archbishop of Canterbury then firmly asserted before the pope that the coronation of the kings of England belonged to the metropolitan of Canterbury for the time being, and to no other. When the pope examined the sealed privileges concerning this matter, he revoked the commission previously granted to the three bishops. The Archbishop of Canterbury himself, being detained by bodily infirmity and unable to come on that day because it was near at hand, entrusted his commission in this matter to three other bishops, namely Henry of Winchester, Simon of Salisbury, and John of Chichester. Thus the day of the royal coronation arrived. There were present from overseas Charles and Louis, counts and uncles of the queen; John, Duke of Brabant, and Margaret, Duchess of Brabant, sister of the King of England; A., Count of Savoy; and many other men distinguished by birth, together with all the prelates and magnates of this realm. On that day the earls and barons, joined by the aforesaid leading men of France, deliberated concerning the state of the kingdom and urgently demanded of the king the removal of Piers Gaveston from the realm. The king refused to consent. Therefore the earls proposed to impede the coronation at once. When the king understood this, he promised in good faith that at the next parliament he would do whatever they asked, provided only that the coronation should not be delayed. Thus, reassured by this empty promise, the earls adorned themselves in precious and silken garments. Meanwhile, that day the king sent the royal regalia of Saint Edward outside the monks’ church. For there were among the nobles some who claimed the right, by ancient service, through which certain lands were held, to carry it from the palace before the king. Yet they ought not to touch it, because it is a relic; but the proper royal regalia of the king to be crowned, in which after mass he was to return to the palace and sit at dinner, they were bound by right to carry. Only the chalice of Saint Edward with the paten might the chancellor and the treasurer of the realm, if they were priests, carry in procession before the king.
Circa idem tempus rex festinavit coronationem suam apud Westmonasterium celebrari Dominica Quinquagesimæ in festo Sancti Mathiæ, anno bissextili, Februarii vicesimo quinto die; et quia Robertus Cantuariensis archiepiscopus absens erat et suspensus ab officio, proposuit papa misisse unum cardinalem qui regem in Anglia coronaret. Rex noluit ista pati, sed, missis nuntiis, postulavit ut ab Eboracensi archiepiscopo et Dunolmensi et Londoniensi consecraretur in regem. Et data est illis commissio et potestas regem solempniter coronare. Sub illis utique diebus invenit Cantuariensis archiepiscopus gratiam coram papa, et restituit eum in gradum pristinum, et ratificavit multa privilegia ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariæ, et alias multa quæ ab eo confirmari postulaverat aut concedi. Tune dominus Cantuariensis asseruit constanter coram papa, regum Angliæ coronationem metropolitano Cantuariensi qui pro tempore fuerit, et non alii, pertinere. Inspectis igitur papa super hiis bullatis privilegiis, revocavit commissionem tribus episcopis præconcessam. Ipse autem dominus Cantuariensis, qui invalitudine corporis detinebatur, nec potuit ad diem illum venire, quia brevis, tradidit commissionem suam tribus aliis episcopis super hac re, [Henrico] videlicet Wyntoniensi, Simoni Saresburiensi, et Johanni Cicestrensi. Venit ergo dies coronationis regiæ. Et aderant de partibus transmarinis Karolus et Lodowicus comites patrui reginæ, Johannes dux et Margareta ducissa Brabantiæ soror regis Angliæ; A. comes Sabaudiæ multique alii viri spectabiles genere cum cunctis prælatis et magnatibus hujus regni. Illo die tractaverunt comites et barones de statu regni associatis sibi prænominatis Franciæ majoribus, petieruntque & rege summopere amotionem Petri de Gavastone à regno. Rex noluit consentire. Iccirco comites proposuerunt coronationem illico impedire. Quod intelligens rex promisit bona fide se illis facturum in proximo parliamento quicquid peterent, tantum ne coronatio differatur. Itaque in hoc vaniloquio se comites ornaverunt pretiosis et sericis indumentis. Interim rex misit illo die post regale Sancti Edwardi extra ecclesiam monachorum. Erant enim ex proceribus qui vendicabant illud deferre de palatio ante regem, ex antiquo servitio. per quod tenebant aliqui certas terras. Porro non deberent tangore illud, quia reliquiæ sunt; sed regale proprium regis coronandi, in quo post missam est in palatiam reversurus et ad prandium est. sessurus, hoc de jure portare debebunt ; tantum calicem Sancti Edwurdi cum patena, cancellarius atque thesaurarius regni, si presbiteri fuerint, ante regem processive poterunt bajulare.
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Annales Paulini. [25th February 1308] It is, however, recognized as dangerous because of the pressing crowd, for we testify to what we have seen. The king therefore willingly distributed portions of the royal regalia of Saint Edward to various earls and barons, Edward's cross, scepter, rod, spurs, and swords, for example. But he entrusted the crown of Saint Edward to Piers (Gaveston) to carry, with defiled hands. Because of this, the people and the clergy were not unjustly outraged. The king entered the church through the back entrance of the palace, with tents having been pitched, in order to escape the crush of the people.
Life of Edward II by a Monk of Malmesbury. After this, preparations were made for the king’s coronation. The archbishops, bishops, earls, and barons were summoned. All of them came, and the burgesses of each city were also present. On the feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle [25th February 1308], the king and queen were crowned and consecrated. The Bishop of Winchester placed the crown upon the king’s head, but this was done by the command and with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury, since it is known to belong to his dignity and to his church, because the archbishop himself was prevented from being present, either by illness or because he had not yet returned to England from overseas parts. When the solemn ceremony had been completed and the feast joyfully celebrated, each person returned to his own home.
Post hæc fiunt præparatoria coronationi regis. Vocantur archiepiscopi, episcopi, comites et barones. Vencrunt igitur omnes, sed burgenses singularum civitatum aderant. Die Sancti Mathiæ apostoli coronati et consecrati sunt rex ct regina Episcopus Wyntoniensis coronam capiti regis apposuit, sed hoc de mandato et consensu archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, cum ad ejus dignitatem ct ccclesiæ suæ noscatur pertinere, factum est, ipso archiepiscopo quominus adesset vel infirmitate præpedito vel nondum a transmarinis partibus in Angliam reverso. Finita igitur solempnitate et festive celebrato convivio rediit unusquisque ad propria.
Adam Murimuth Continuation. 25th February 1308... both he and the queen were crowned by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry, by the commission of Lord Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury. And present at the said coronation were Charles (age 13), the brother of the queen (age 13), who later became King of France, Duke of Brittany, Henry (age 33), Count of Luxembourg, who later became Emperor, and Peter de Gavestone (age 24), who nobly appeared, surpassing all, incurred the envy and hatred of all. Also, Louis (age 31), the brother of the King of France (age 39), was there.
... tam ipse quam ipsa regina fuerunt coronati per episcopum Wyntoniensem Henricum, ex commissione domini Roberti archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. Et dicte coronationi interfuerunt Karolus, frater regine, qui postea fuit rex Francie, dux Britanniæ, Henricus comes Luceburgiæ, qui postea fuit imperator, et Petrus de Gavestone, qui nobiliter apparuit omnes transcendens, invidiam et odium omnium incurrebat. Item, Lodowycus, frater regis Francis, fuit ibidem
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. He brought her back with him to England, and was crowned1 with her in London a month later, on the sixth day before the Kalends of March [25th February 1308], which was also a Sunday2 and the feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle. The people of both realms rejoiced and celebrated. When the solemnities were completed, the king summoned his nobles to meet at Westminster, to deliberate and make arrangements on three matters: the state of the Church, which had in recent times declined; the state of the crown, which he had newly received, and how it ought to be governed according to God and justice; and the peace of the realm, and how it should be maintained among the people.
Reduxitque eam in Angliam, et coronatus est cum ea Londoniis post mensem, sexto scilicet kalendas Martii, quæ erat Dominica, et festum Sancti Mathiæ apostoli, lætantibus et exulfantibus populis utriusque terræ. Factaque solemnitate, misit rex magnatibus suis ut convenirent apud Westmonasterium, tractaturi et ordinaturi in tribus articulis, de statu scilicet ecclesia, quæ retroactis temporibus iverat in declivum; de statu coronæ quam de novo sumpserat, quomodo secundum Deum et justitiam deberet gubernari; et de pace terræ, quomodo deberet in populo observari.
Note 1. The coronation roll of this King is printed in Rymer, Fœdera, 2.33 et seq, together with the Coronation Oath.
Note 2. The sixth day before the Kalends of March is the 24th of February. However, 1308 was a leap-year. At the time, rather than add an extra day to February, the calendar inserted a second 24th of February, which was known as the "bisextus" or "twice sixth". In a leap year the Church held that St Matthias's Feast Day, usually the 24th of February, was held on the "twice sixth" i.e. the 25th of February in the modern calendar.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. At the aforementioned coronation, there were present1 Charles, the brother of the Queen, who would later become King of France, as well as Charles of Valois, the brother of the King of France and father of Philip, the first usurper of the Kingdom of France, along with the Duke of Brittany. Also present was Henry, Count of Luxembourg, who would later become the Emperor. However, Piers Gaveston,2 surpassing all in attire and display, incurred universal envy and the most intense hatred, for it is always the fate of those who outshine true nobility to provoke resentment.
Predicte coronacioni affuerunt Karolus frater regine, futurus rex Francie, item Karolus de Valoys, frater regis Francie et pater Philippi primi intrusoris regni Francorum, et dux Britannie; item Henricus comes Luceburgie, postea imperator. Set Petrus de Gavestone, cultu et apparatu omnes transcendens, omnium invidiam et eius nefandum partum odium incurrebat, que sola excellenter nobilia lacescit.
Note 1. The chronicles vary as to the foreign guests. Murimuth names Charles le Bel, the duke of Brittany, Henry of Luxemburg, and Louis of Evreux; the Annales Paulini and Walsingham, more correctly apparently, name Charles of Valois and Louis of Evreux, the queen's uncles, the duke and duchess of Brabant, and the count of Savoy; the Contin. Trivet, mentions wrongly, among others, Charles and Louis, the queen's brothers. The French king's letter sending Charles of Valois, 9th of February, is printed in the Rymer's Fœdera 2.31. In the ceremony the latter put on the king his right boot and spur. Rymer's Fœdera 2.36.
Note 2. Gaveston carried the crown; Annales Paulini ed. Stubbs, Rolls Series, 261.
He also redeemed the 'Curtana' sword, apparently for the return procession, and fixed the spur on the king's left foot. Rymer's Fœdera 2.36.
His ostentation at the banquet is thus noticed in the Annales Paulini 262.