Table Of ContentFeudal Empires
Norman and Plantagenet
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Feudal Empires
Norman and Plantagenet
John Le Patourel
THE HAMBLEDON
PRESS
The Hambledon Press 1984
35 Gloucester Avenue, London NW1 7 AX
History Series 18
ISBN 0 907628 22 2
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Le Patourel, John
Feudal Empires.
1. Great Britain - History - Medieval period,
1066-1485
I. Title
942.02 DA175
© Mrs. H. E. J. Le Patourel 1984
© Foreword. Michael Jones 1984
This book contains 410 pages.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword by Michael Jones ix
Select Bibliography of John Le Patourel xiii
I The Early History of St. Peter Port 171 -208
II The Origins of the Channel Islands Legal System 198-210
III The Authorship of the Grand Coutumier de Normandie 292-300
IV Guernsey, Jersey and their Environment
in the Middle Ages 435-61
V The Date of the Trial on Penenden Heath 378-88
VT Norman Barons 3-31
VII Normandy and England 1066-1144 3-38
VIII The Plantagenet Dominions 289-308
IX Angevin Successions and the Angevin Empire 1-17
X Henri II Plantagenet et la Bretagne 99-116
Appendix I: Guillaume Fils Ham on 117-18
Appendix II: Guillaume Fils Raoul 119-20
XI The Origins of the Hundred Years War 28-50
XII Edward III and the Kingdom of France 173-89
XIII The Treaty of Brétigny, 1360 19-39
XIV L'occupation anglaise de Calais au XIVe siècle 228-41
XV The King and the Princes in Fourteenth-Century France 155-83
XVI The Medieval Borough of Leeds 12-21
XVII Is Northern History a Subject? 1-15
XVIII France and England in the Middle Ages 1-14
Index 1-16
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The articles collected here, with the exception of Chapters IX and XVIII
which are new, appeared originally in the following places and are
reprinted by the kind permission of the original publishers.
I Société Guernesiaise Report and Transactions, xii (2)(1935).
II Solicitor Quarterly, 1 (1962).
III English Historical Review, Ivi ( 1941 ).
IV SORT, (1975).
V £.#.£., lxi( 1946).
VI Historical Association Pamphlet 4 in 1066 Commemoration
Series. First published by Hastings and Bexhill Branch of
The Historical Association (1966); reprinted by The
Historical Association (1971).
VE Stenton Lecture, University of Reading ( 1970).
VIII History, 1 (1965).
X Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie
de Bretagne, Iviii ( 1981 ); Annales de Normandie, xxix
(1979), 376-7, and xxx (1980), 321-2.
XI The Hundred Years War, ed. Kenneth Fowler (Macmjllans,
London, 1971).
XII History, xliii (1958).
XIII Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Series,
10 (1960).
XIV Revue du Nord, xxxiii (1951).
XV Europe in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by J.R. Hale,
J.R.L. Highfield and B. Smalley (Faber, London, 1965).
XVI Thoresby Society Miscellany, 13, Part I (1959).
XVII Northern History, xii (1976).
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FOREWORD
This collection of selected papers by John Le Patourel is largely based on
a list which he drew up in July 1981 shortly before his death. The general
ideas behind his choice were 'to pick out the papers I thought best worth
including, while avoiding overlapping as much as possible; that the
Channel Islands should not be over-represented; and that the category I
have labelled 'The Fourteenth Century' should be represented pretty well
in full'. In making a final selection these criteria have been respected as far
as possible but since his sequel to The Norman Empire (1976),
provisionally entitled The Plantagenet Realm, on which he was working at
the time of his death, remains unfinished and in a form too incomplete for
publication, it has seemed appropriate to include more preparatory essays
on this theme than the author had originally intended to represent his
latest views. Among such essays is a previously unpublished one on
'Angevin Successions and the Angevin Empire' delivered as a lecture in
Cambridge in May 1980. In part this complements an earlier important
article on 'The Norman Succession, 966-1135' (English Historical Review,
lxxxvi(1971), 225-50) which is not reproduced here. Another paper,
previously unpublished, 'France and England in the Middle Ages' was
delivered as the Clapton Lecture at Leeds in 1977. It gives 'preliminary
expression to the general ideas I have been forming over a lifetime'.
Indeed it will be apparent that one of the most striking features of this
anthology is the unity, modification and development of Professor Le
Patourel's thought from his earliest to the latest essays included in this
volume.
Born and brought up in Guernsey, one surviving territorial link
between the English Crown and the former Duchy of Normandy, he was
uniquely conscious among modern scholars of the fact that in the period
which most interested him 'the effective political units from 1066 until
some time in the fourteenth century were not England and France as we
ordinarily think of them, but a Norman empire and an Angevin empire
and a kingdom of France (the 'Capetian empire'), overlapping and
interpenetrating'. From early days he sensed that a comparative approach
to many issues, whether seen in a local or wider context, would yield new
insights and understanding. Remarks à propos the underdeveloped form of
urban institutions in the Channel Islands, Normandy and Brittany made in
