WEEK XII WORDS etc

LANCASTRIAN CONSTITUTIONALISM

'MODUS TENENDI PARLIAMENTUM', ? C. 1320

CLERICAL PROCTORS (
representing the Church)

LIVERY      MAINTENANCE      RETAINERS

JOHN OF GAUNT, DUKE OF LANCASTER, EDWARD III'S BROTHER (1340-99)

ORDER OF THE GARTER         'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE'  (
Shame to him who thinks evil of others)
 
JOAN, COUNTESS OF SALISBURY, who married EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE (1330-76)

BATTLES OF CRECY (1346), POITIERS (1357)

IMPEACHMENT            'GOOD' PARLIAMENT, 1376            'BAD' PARLIAMENT, 1377

ISABELLA, 'THE SHE-WOLF', daughter of CHARLES IV OF FRANCE (d. 1328),

        wife of 1. EDWARD II, 2. EDWARD MORTIMER

SALIC LAW (
held to deny that females could inherit)

JOHN 'THE GOOD', KING OF FRANCE, captured at POITIERS 1357, d. 1364

JACQUERIE REVOLT, 1358

TREATY OF BRETIGNY, 1360

CHEVAUCHEE  (
sweep of knights on horseback across France)            

ROUTIERS (
Mecenary soldiers fight ing with Free Companies to ravage & terrorize inside French kingdom)

K.B. (Bruce) McFARLANE         M.M. POSTAN            SIR JOHN FASTOLF (= FALSTAFF)