V.

Valence, Aymer de, earl of Pembroke

has the custody of Piers Gaveston, 17;
envoy to the pope, 26; taken prisoner
and held to ransom, ibid.; secretly
declares against the Despensers, 33;
envoy from the barons, 34; persuades
the Mortimers to submit, 35.
Valenciennes, in Flanders, Edward 111.
marches thence to invade France, 304,
307.

Valentinois, comte de. See Poitiers, Louis
de.

Valognes, in Normandy, taken by the

English, 202, 203, 212, 358, 360.
Valois, Charles of. See Charles of Val-
ois.

Valoys, sire de. See Amboise.

Vannes, in Brittany, besieged by Edward
III., 129, 340, 341, 343.

Vauclaire, in Aquitaine, taken by the
English, 446, 448.

Vaudemont, comte de. See Joinville,
Henri de.

Vaus, Hugues de, taken prisoner at Au-
beroche, 250.

Veel, sir Peter de, he and his son lost at
sea, 135, 229.

Vendôme, Jean, comte de, he and his
brother taken prisoners at Poitiers, 470.
Ventadour, Bernard, comte de, taken
prisoner at Poitiers, 470.

Ventadour, seigneur de, present at the
siege of Aiguillon, 250.

Vere, John de, earl of Oxford, at a tourna-
ment at Dunstable, 123; sails with an
expedition to Brittany, 243; defeats
Charles of Blois, 189; sails with the
expedition of 1346 against France, 199;
accompanies the Black Prince to Aqui-
taine, 424; on service there, 447, 449.
Verge, Corbalan, taken prisoner at Au-
beroche, 250.

U 50093.

Vermandois, in Picardy, laid waste by
Edward III., 102, 303.

Verneuil, in Normandy, taken by the
duke of Lancaster, 464, 466.

Vescy, John, acknowledges Edward 1.
suzerain of Scotland, 290-294.

Vie, Arnaud de la, vicomte de Ville-
mur, taken prisoner at Auberoche, 250,
251.

Vielcastel, Guillaume de, slain at Mauron,
416, 417.

Vienne, in Dauphiné, council at, and con-
demnation of the Templars, 16.

Vilamure. See Villemur,
Ville-Arnoul, sire de, taken prisoner at
Poitiers, 471.

Wake, Thomas, baron, joins queen Isa-
bella, 47; refuses to attend parliament
at Salisbury, but submits, 58; his fort
of Liddel besieged by the Scots, 202,
376.

Wales, prince of. See Edward, prince of
Wales.

Wallace, William, executed, 8.
Wallingford, co. Berks, Edward 11. keeps
Christmas 1333 there, 72.

Walsingham, co. Norfolk, Edward III.
goes on pilgrimage to, 135.
Walsingham, Alan de, prior of Ely,
elected bishop, 172.

Walton, co. Suffolk, queen Isabella lands
there, 46.

Warren, earl. See Plantagenet, John.
K K

Warwick, earls of. See Beauchamp, Guy

de; Beauchamp, Thomas de.

Wath, Michael, clerk in Chancery, im-
prisoned, 117.

Wavrin, Robert de, sire de Saint-Venant,
slain at Crécy, 369, 371.

Wells, co. Somerset, Edward III. keeps
Christmas 1331 there, 65.

Westminster, parliaments held there, 78,
104, 136, 156, 229, 352, 431; cardinal
envoys received in the painted chamber,
81; councils at, 176, 424; woolstaple
at, 419.

Weston, Philip de, accompanies Edward
III. from Flanders, 117.
Weymouth, Edward III. driven thither by
storms, 135, 229.

Wight, Isle of, French attack on, repulsed,

109 note; Edward III. sails thence to
invade France, 198, 245; the duke of
Lancaster's expedition detained there

426.

Wigmore, co. Hereford, Mortimer holds a
Round Table there, 284; buried there,
62.

Wigton, earl of. See Fleming, Malcolm.
Wilington, John de, executed, 36.
Willoughby, Richard de, judge, removed,

117.

Winchelsea, co. Sussex, Spanish ships

defeated off, 412; the duke of Lancas-
ter's expedition detained there, 426.
Winchelsey, Robert, archbishop of Can-
terbury, suspended, 9; restored, 12,
13; hostile to Gayeston, 14; excom-
municates the bishop of Coventry, 18;
his death, 19.

Winchester, see of, the prior and chapter

fined for electing a bishop, 173; the
the pope delays to provide a bishop,
ibid.

Winchester, bishops of. See Asser, Ri-

gaud; Edingdon, William; Orlton,
Adam; Sendale, John; Stratford, John;
Woodlock, Henry.

Winchester, city of, parliament at, 59,
284; the earl of Kent condemned and
executed, 253, 255, 284.

Winchester, earl of. See Despenser,
Hugh.

Windsor, festival at, 155, 156, 231.
Wingfield, sir John, his letter describing
the raid of the Black Prince to Nar-
bonne, 439-445; his letter on military
movements in Aquitaine, 445–449.
Wiseheart, John, bishop of Glasgow,
envoy to the pope, 40.

Wiseheart, Robert, bishop of Glasgow,
liberated, 21.

Wiveliscombe, co. Somerset, the arch-

bishop of Canterbury keeps Christmas
1331 there, 65.

Woodlock, Henry, bishop of Winchester,

officiates at Edward II.'s coronation,
12; his death, 24.

Woodstock, co. Oxon, queen Philippa goes
thither, 72; Edward III. keeps Whit-
suntide 1337 there, 78; festival on the
birth of Thomas of Woodstock, 422.
Woodstock, Thomas of. See Thomas of
Woodstock.

Wool, laws against its exportation and
concerning woollen manufacture, 79;
pre-emption granted to the king, 80;
sent for sale to Brabant, ibid.; grants
to the king, 80, 82, 85, 431; collected
and sent to the king in Flanders, 87, 88;

price, and custom on, fixed, 136; staples
established, 419.

Worcester, bishops of. See Cobham,
Thomas; Maidstone, Walter; Orlton,
Adam.

Wynkeley, Richard, king's confessor, his
account of the Crécy campaign, 215,
216, 362.

Wyville, Robert, made bishop of Salis-
bury, 60; his character, ibid.; a com-
missioner to enquire into charges against
archbishop Stratford, 120; attends a
provincial council, 122.