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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… the negotiating table, yet, despite the fact that John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and his brother the earl of … of news of the capture by the Scots of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Gaunt seized the opportunity to subject the earl of … the great council held at Waltham in early February 1385, Gaunt tried to persuade the king to undertake his proposed …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… Walsingham states that both Richard II and John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, had initially urged the commons to … parliament, rather than by petition - that since John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, was 'the most powerful person in … who was clearly in agreement with the suggestion, as was Gaunt himself. Rather, it was a recognition of the fact that, …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… Summonses were addressed on the same day to John of Gaunt, titular king of Castile and Leon and duke of … the early death of Prince Edward, in 1376, and John of Gaunt's uncompromising defence of what he saw as the … mother's tact in effecting or accepting a concordat with Gaunt had brought something of a respite. As the princess …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… Clerkenwell. The temporal peers summoned were John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and Edmund earl of Cambridge, … been fully and honestly spent, and suspected that John of Gaunt had had access to them. The crown's answer was that the … writs Source : PRO E 175/11/26. 2 Grant to John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, of the right to have for life an …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… to send an army to Iberia under the command of John of Gaunt, partly in order to bring relief to the Portuguese in … struggle against the Castilians, and partly to enable Gaunt to press home his claim to the throne of Castile, … to mention it. How many of the commons had confidence in Gaunt's declaration that he only required the 43,000 as a …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… and a bitter disappointment in particular to John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, who had hoped to persuade the … (Item 3). It may have been at the behest of John of Gaunt, who had been much involved with Anglo-Scottish … responded promptly, appointing a delegation, headed by Gaunt, which set off around 10 November, two weeks before the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… The English army reached Edinburgh on 12 August: John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and the king's eldest uncle, wanted … temporal was Henry of Bolingbroke, eldest son of John of Gaunt, to whom devolved the earldom of Derby, a title which … half fifteenths and tenths, to be divided between John of Gaunt's proposed campaign to Iberia, the defence of the seas …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… an attack might occur at any moment. Meanwhile John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, the king's senior uncle, had … with him several of the realm's more notable war-captains. Gaunt would not return to England for more than three years, … reign of Edward II, the leading role in which was taken by Gaunt's younger brother (and the king's youngest uncle), …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… Huntingdon at the end of the Merciless Parliament. John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, was still in Iberia, and was thus … which must have sounded discouragingly similar to John of Gaunt's famous retort in the 1384 parliament that 'every lord …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… in June 1397; and John Beaufort, the son of John of Gaunt, who had been granted the earldom of Somerset in the … 1394. 'That pardon is revoked, traitor', retorted John of Gaunt, who as steward of England presided over the trial. When Arundel replied that he was no traitor, Gaunt asked him why, in that case, he had sought a pardon. …