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Author Bothwell, James.

Title Edward III and the English peerage : royal patronage, social mobility, and political control in fourteenth-century England / J.S. Bothwell
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 232 pages)
Contents pt. 1. New parliamentary peerage creations, 1330-77 : the sources and uses of royal patronage -- 1. The 'new' nobility -- 2. Mechanisms of royal largesse -- 3. Royal feudal rights -- 4. Annuities and assignments -- 5. Routine patronage -- pt. 2. The impact and rationale of Edward III's patronage -- 6. Contemporary response -- 7. Distribution of royal favour -- 8. Kings, the parliamentary peerage and royal patronage in the later middle ages -- App. 1. The definition of 'new men' and other limitations on this study -- App. 2. Careers of major players -- App. 3. Escheats, expectancies and forfeitures -- App. 4. Marriage rights and arrangements -- App. 5. Wardships and custodies -- App. 6. Annuities
Summary Patronage was central to medieval kingship, and a crucial facet of royal power. This book, the first in-depth examination of this crucial facet of royal power, offers a detailed analysis of how Edward III, one of the most successful and, to use a modern term, charismatic of medieval English monarchs, used royal favour to create a 'new nobility' and to reward and control the established peerage. Dr Bothwell shows how judicious use of largesse helped to produce domestic stability and encouraged the successful prosecution of foreign wars. Further, the study demonstrates how the nature of royal patronage came to reflect changes in feudalism, land law, finance, and the Church and the consequences of these changes for the more general history of medieval patronage, the evolution of the Lords and Commons, and the state of royal power both at the centre and in the localities. Overall, it is a clear, concise study of how Edward III used patronage to reposition the monarchy after the vicissitudes of his father's reign and a problematic minority. J.S. BOTHWELL is Lecturer in Later Medieval English History, University of Leicester
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377.
SUBJECT Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. fast (OCoLC)fst00011899
Subject Patronage, Political -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Social mobility -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Nobility.
Patronage, Political.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Social mobility.
Cliƫntelisme.
Sociale mobiliteit.
Politieke macht.
Adel.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1327-1377. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056878
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312
Subject England.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846152306
1846152305
Other Titles Edward, the Third, and the English peerage