Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. List of Contributors xii
6. Foreword xiii
7. Andrew Ayton: A Brief Tribute xvi
8. Andrew Ayton: A Recognition of his Work xvii
9. Abbreviations xxiv
10. 1 ‘Big and Beautiful’ Destriers in Edward I’s Armies 1
11. 2 Cum Equis Discoopertis: The ‘Irish’ Hobelar in the English Armies of the Fourteenth Century 15
12. 3 Andrew Ayton, the Military Community and the Evolution of the Gentry in Fourteenth-Century England 31
13. 4 Knights Banneret, Military Recruitment and Social Status, c. 1270-c. 1420: A View from the Reign of Edward I 51
14. 5 Sir Henry de Beaumont and his Retainers: The Dynamics of a Lord’s Military Retinues and Affinity in Early Fourteenth-Century England 77
15. 6 Financing the Dynamics of Recruitment: King, Earls and Government in Edwardian England, 1330–60 105
16. 7 The Symbolic Meaning of Edward III’s Garter Badge 125
17. 8 Sir Robert Knolles’ Expedition to France in 1370: New Perspectives 147
18. 9 The Organisation and Financing of English Expeditions to the Baltic during the Later Middle Ages 181
19. 10 Naval Service and the Cinque Ports, 1322–1453 211
20. 11 The Garrison Establishment in Lancastrian Normandy in 1436 According to Surviving Lists in Bibliothèque Nationale de France manuscrit français 25773 237
21. Bibliography of the Writings of Andrew Ayton 271
22. Index 275
23. Tabula Gratulatoria 293