Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine (reading an ebook TXT) 📕

1207      First signs of William's impending fall from grace

1208      23 March. John's conflict with Rome over appointment of Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury leads to interdict of Pope Innocent III

1208      The de Braoses flee to Ireland

1209-10 William back in Wales

1210      Spring. King John arrives in Ireland

1210      Matilda flees to Scotland

1211      Death of Matilda and Will

1211      9 August. William dies in Corbeil. Buried in Paris by exiled Archbishop Langton

1215      Magna Carta

1216      10 October. The authorization of a grant of land at Aconbury to Margaret de Lacy is one of the last pieces of business John transacts 1216 18 October. King John dies

NOTE ON NAMES

The name of de Braose is variously spelled in the chronicles and subsequent history books as de Briouse, de Breos, and de Briouze as well as de Braose.

Matilda was as frequently referred to as Maude or Maud (the names having the same derivation as Matilda), quite apart from her nicknames in local history and folklore as Moll Walbee, Malld Walbri, and Mailt or Mawd.

Margaret, her daughter, is in some records referred to as Marjorie.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I should like to thank all the people who have gone to such endless trouble to help me with the research for this book, particularly Professor Ann Matonis for her translations into Middle and Modern Welsh (for any mistakes in the transcriptions of which I must take the blame). I should also like to thank Dr. Brian Taylor, Dr. Michael Siddons, and Dr. Brian Blandford for their advice on matters medical, heraldic, and musical; my father, who has driven so many miles to double-check on locations in the Welsh hills; and Carole Blake, for all her help and encouragement. And finally I must make special mention of Jean Walter, without whose meticulous typing this book might never have been finished!

Barbara Erskine Llanigon and Great Tey, 1985

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Epilogue 1

Epilogue 2