5. The Final Tempestuous Years of the Earldom, 1300–36

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Author’s Note xvi
7. Preface: a Little Understood Land xvii
8. Part I: Cornwall: its Gentlemen, Government and Identity
9. 1. The Very Ends of the Earth: an Overview of Fourteenth-Century Cornwall 1
10. 2. Office-Holding in a Wild Spot 21
11. 3. Since the Time of King Arthur: Gentry Identity and the Commonalty of Cornwall 41
12. 4. An Extraordinary Folk: the Cornish People 68
13. Part II: Distant Dominium: Comital, Ducal and Regnal Lordship
14. 5. The Final Tempestuous Years of the Earldom, 1300–36 111
15. 6. The Black Prince and his Duchy, 1337–76 135
16. 7. Richard of Bordeaux: Duke of Cornwall and King of England, 1376–99 152
17. Part III: Connectivity: Cornwall and the Wider Realm
18. Communication, Movement and Exchange: Connectivity Frameworks 169
19. 8. Sovereign Kings and Demanding Subjects: Regnal Connectivity 171
20. 9. Pillagers with Long Knives: Military Connectivity 183
21. 10. Formidable Lords and True Tenants: Lordly Connectivity 205
22. 11. Gold, Tin and Terrible Ale: Commercial Connectivity 215
23. 12. Lawless Judges and Litigious Cornishmen: Legal Connectivity 235
24. 13. God and Cornwall: Ecclesiastical Connectivity 255
25. 14. Of Shipmen, Smugglers and Pirates: Maritime Connectivity Connecting Cornwall 278
26. Connecting Cornwall 303
27. Conclusion: Cornish Otherness and English Hegemony? 311
28. Epilogue: Contesting Cornwall 315
29. Appendices
30. I. Cornwall’s Office-Holders, c. 1300–c. 1400 318
31. II. Cornish Men-at-Arms and Mounted Archers who Served the King between c. 1298 and c. 1415 393
32. III. Cornish Ports that sent ships to Royal Fleets between c. 1297 and c. 1420 425
33. Bibliography 431
34. Index 463