Many people ask me who and what is covered in the first book of Love, Honour and Royal Blood. “A lot!” is my answer. So here I give you a glimpse of the breadth of topics covered, by way of the Index:
Index
Arundel, Richard: 234, 235, 249, 250, 269, 331
Beaufort, Henry: 292, 338
Bishop of London: 294
Black Plague: 66, 67, 69-72, 74, 78, 95, 183, 218, 219, 280, 365
Black Prince: 14, 37, 64, 83, 86-98, 145, 169, 176-179, 203-207, 227, 229, 230, 245, 279, 377
Blanche: 3, 15, 18-28, 37, 38, 42, 43, 46, 48, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 63-69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 102, 115, 118, 120, 134, 137, 147, 149, 151, 153, 158, 161, 205, 218, 276, 291, 292, 303, 331-334, 357, 358, 410, 416, 417
Bolingbroke, Henry: 14, 150, 227, 277, 288, 290, 366, 367, 369, 372
Brightwell, Thomas: 299, 300
Chaucer, Geoffrey: 9, 10, 28, 29, 31, 41, 76, 77, 122-125, 147, 150, 157, 161, 163, 167, 168, 248, 267, 270, 285, 298, 354, 362, 416, 423
Constance of Castile: 15, 98-100, 108, 110, 114-116, 119, 121-125, 129, 133, 134, 136, 141, 146, 148-153, 270, 325, 357, 381, 395, 400, 402, 407
Courtenay, Bishop William: 221-223, 229, 231, 233, 234, 238-240, 256, 259, 294, 371
de Bohun, Mary: 331-336
de Roët, Katharine: 19, 29, 31
de Roët, Sir Payne: 27, 121
de Vere, Robert: 278, 366, 367, 368
Edward III: 8, 14, 73, 121, 178, 183, 184, 200, 203, 207, 227, 231, 283
Good Parliament: 14, 179, 180, 181, 194, 196, 211, 212, 216, 224, 225, 233, 245, 322
Gaunt, John of (The duke of Lancaster was so well known and so powerful, that his name is rarely misspelled): 9 (Author’s Note), 39 (first reference)
Holyrood Abbey: 394, 398, 399
Kenilworth: 13, 148, 288, 291, 295, 296, 325, 328, 344, 355, 356
Kettlethorpe: 13, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38, 53, 56, 57, 64, 80, 81, 101, 107, 112–118, 120, 124, 125, 129, 138, 139, 142, 144, 147–149, 152, 251, 403
Latimer, William: 166-170, 174, 175, 182, 185, 187–193, 199, 201, 215, 216, 222, 226–229, 237, 239, 244, 245, 247, 249
Lincoln Cathedral: 158, 299, 409
London, Bishop of: 221, 229, 238, 256
March, Earl of: 180, 181, 198, 199, 213, 214, 238, 239, 241, 243, 244, 245, 247
Marsh, Alfred: 194, 196, 208, 421
Mowbray, Thomas: 366
Neville, John: 59, 137, 167, 182, 185, 201, 227, 399, 400, 421
Parliamentary Democracy: 9, 11
Peasant’s Revolt: 364, 395, 401, 412, 416
Percy, Henry: 181, 213–215, 237, 238, 240–242, 244, 249, 250, 257, 259, 260, 269, 278, 394, 399, 400, 402, 403
Protestant Reformation: 9
Richard II: 44, 94, 179, 203, 205-207, 213, 235, 244–246, 253, 254, 262, 264, 276–279, 287, 288, 290, 294, 324, 327, 328, 331, 332, 336, 360, 366–369, 373, 377–380, 394, 400
Savoy: 13, 43, 75, 79, 80, 83, 103, 124, 129, 133, 150, 152, 186, 204, 250, 260, 266, 273–276, 279, 289, 361, 362, 370, 383, 391, 392, 396, 417
Scrope, Richard: 166–168, 188–191, 200, 201, 217–219, 220, 239
Sudbury, Archbishop Simon: 226, 366, 371
Swynford, Hugh: 24, 27, 28, 31, 64, 80, 83, 100, 157, 158, 290, 337, 416
Swynford, Katharine
(Because spelling was not standardized in the 14th Century, each scribe wrote words the way that they sounded to him.
In the documents written in Katharine’s own time, (many of which John of Gaunt dictated to his scribes) her name was spelled many different ways, including: Kateryn Swynford, and Kateryne Swynford. Swynford is also sometimes spelled Swinford as in Katherine Swinford or Katharine Swinford.
The most common modern spelling of her name is Katherine Swynford and this spelling was probably popularized by Anya Seton when she wrote her famous book ‘Katherine’ in 1954.
In modern spelling there are also various spellings of: Catherine Swynford, Catherine Swinford, Catharine Swynford and Catharine Swinford.
I have chosen the more unique spelling of Katharine – spelling her first name with an ‘a’ in the second syllable.): 9 (Author’s Note), 31 (first reference)
Tyler, Wat: 365, 370, 379, 380
Westminster Abbey: 158, 194, 195, 209, 293, 368, 394
Winchester, Bishop of: 231
Wycliffe, John (There are not only different spellings of John Wycliffe’s name, but different pronunciations. His name is sometimes spelled: John Wyclif, John Wycliff, John Wiclef, or John Wickliffe; and it is pronounced by some people as why-cliff, and by others as wick-cliff.):9, 156, 157, 159–163, 232, 235, 236, 255–257, 259, 295–323, 326, 330, 350, 352-354, 406, 407, 410, 413
Wykeham, William: 165, 166, 170, 171, 174, 175, 181, 182, 190, 191, 199, 201, 205, 217–223, 233, 239, 240, 245, 247, 249, 283
