Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility, and Political Control in Fourteenth-century EnglandA study of Edward III's astute use of patronage to reposition the monarchy after the vicissitudes of his father's reign and his own problematic minority. |
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Contents
PART | 10 |
Mechanisms of royal largesse | 28 |
Royal feudal rights | 46 |
Annuities and assignments | 78 |
Routine patronage | 93 |
Contemporary response | 113 |
Distribution of royal favour | 138 |
Kings the parliamentary peerage and royal patronage in | 154 |
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Page 211 - A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm, from the 49th of King Henry III. until these present Times, SK.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility, and Political Control in Fourteenth-century England |
| Author | James Bothwell |
| Publisher | Boydell Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1843830477, 9781843830474 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Great Britain / General |
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