MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND CULTURES OF NORTHERN EUROPE. Editorial Board under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull

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2 MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND CULTURES OF NORTHERN EUROPE Editorial Board under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull Wendy Scase, Chair, University of Birmingham Adrian P. Tudor, Secretary, University of Hull John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London Julia Barrow, University of Nottingham Lesley A. Coote, University of Hull David Crouch, University of Hull Alan Deighton, University of Hull Alan Hindley, University of Hull Judith Jesch, University of Nottingham Advisory Board Andrew Ayton, University of Hull David Bagchi, University of Hull Elaine C. Block, Misericordia International Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin Madison Olle Ferm, Stockholm University Wim Hüsken, Stedelijke Musea Mechelen Gerhard Jaritz, Central European University, Budapest Peter Meredith, University of Leeds Veronica O Mara, University of Hull Nigel F. Palmer, St Edmund Hall, Oxford Brigitte Schludermann, University of Hull Michel Zink, Collège de France, Membre de l Institut Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of this book VOLUME 16

3 BROKEN LINES Genealogical Literature in Late-Medieval Britain and France edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy HF

4 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Broken lines : genealogical literature in late-medieval Britain and France. (Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 16) 1. Genealogical literature England History To Genealogical literature France History To Great Britain History Medieval period, Sources 4. France History Medieval period, Sources I. Radulescu, Raluca, 1974 II. Kennedy, Edward Donald 929.3'41'09024 ISBN-13: , Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2008/0095/113 ISBN: Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper

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6 CONTENTS Acknowledgements Contributors ix xi Introduction 1 RALUCA L. RADULESCU AND EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY Genealogy in Insular Romance 7 RALUCA L. RADULESCU Prophecy, Genealogy, and History in Medieval English Political Discourse 27 LESLEY COOTE A New Pattern for English History: 45 The First Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England OLIVIER DE LABORDERIE Genealogies of Noble Families in Anglo-Norman 63 JOHN SPENCE Genealogies in Medieval France 79 MARIGOLD ANNE NORBYE Genealogy in Monastic Chronicles in England 103 EMILIA JAMROZIAK

7 Genealogy Rewritten: Inheriting the Legendary in Insular Historiography 123 MATTHEW FISHER Genealogy and Gentility: Social Status in Provincial England 143 JON DENTON The Antiquity of Scottish Civilization: 159 King-lists and Genealogical Chronicles EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY Genealogical Narratives and Kingship in Medieval Wales 175 NIA M. W. POWELL Case Studies Narrative, Lineage, and Succession 205 in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle JULIA MARVIN Genealogy and Women in the Prose Brut, 221 Especially the Middle English Common Version and its Continuations LISTER M. MATHESON Genealogy and John Hardyng s Verse Chronicle 259 SARAH L. PEVERLEY

8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors thank Linda Jones, Research Administrator in the College of Arts and Humanities, Bangor University, for her invaluable help in bringing this book to successful completion, and Einion Wyn Thomas, Archivist, Bangor University, for generously providing the cover image. The contributors continuing support and the useful advice provided by the anonymous readers and Simon Forde at Brepols all contributed to the smooth running of the project through its final stages.

9 CONTRIBUTORS Lesley Coote is Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Hull. Her main research interest is in the field of prophecy, politics, and culture, particularly the culture of medieval England. She is the author of Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England (2000) and has written (and co-written) several articles on this subject. A committed educationalist, she has also written on teaching medieval literature through film and has produced a student-friendly edition of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. Her current field of interest includes the re-presentation of medieval subjects on film; her latest production is an article on Arthurian film for Studies in Medievalism, co-written with her late colleague Brian Levy, for whose memorial volume she has produced an article on monstrosity and humour in Richard Coeur de Lyon. Olivier de Laborderie finished his doctoral thesis, Ligne de reis : culture historique, représentation du pouvoir royal et construction de la mémoire nationale en e Angleterre à travers les généalogies royales en rouleau du milieu du XIII siècle au e début du XV siècle, under the supervision of Jacques Le Goff at the EHESS in Paris in His publications include L image de Richard Coeur de Lion dans La vie et la mort du roi Jean de William Shakespeare, in Richard Coeur de Lion in History and Myth, ed. by Janet L. Nelson (1992); Richard the Lionheart and the Birth of a National Cult of St George in England, Nottingham Mediaeval Studies, 39 (1995), and Les généalogies des rois d Angleterre sur rouleaux manuscrits e e (milieu XIII siècle début XV siècle), in La généalogie entre science et passion, ed. by Tiphaine Barthelemy and Marie-Claude Pingaud (1997). He has also published articles on illumination and its significance in royal genealogies of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in England.

10 xii Contributors Jon Denton completed his doctoral thesis, The East-Midland Gentleman, , in 2005 and has published on gentry culture in the fifteenth century. He has taught medieval history at the universities of Keele and Nottingham Trent and is currently teaching at Hymers College in Hull. His research interests include the social and political history of the late Middle Ages, and he is currently working on the relationship between coats of arms and manorial lordship. Matthew Fisher is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on thirteenth- and early-fourteenth-century insular historiography, hagiography, and romance in its multilingual manuscript contexts. He is an adjunct editor for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive and is currently working on a book about derivative textuality and scribal authorship. Emilia Jamroziak is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on the relationships between monastic houses, particularly Cistercian, and their broader social context in northern England, Scotland, and the Baltic region. She has published Rievaulx Abbey and its Social Context : Memory, Locality and Network (2005) and has co-edited (with Janet Burton) Religious and Laity in Western Europe : Interaction, Negotiation and Power (2006). Edward Donald Kennedy is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He wrote Chronicles and Other Historical Writing (vol. VIII of A Manual of Writings in Middle English , gen. ed. Albert E. Hartung (1989)) and edited King Arthur: A Casebook (1996; repr. 2002). He is editor of Studies in Philology and has written numerous articles on Arthurian subjects and chronicles. He is subject editor for medieval chronicles produced in England and Scotland for the forthcoming Brill Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle and is co-editing, with Dan Embree and Kathleen Daly, some short medieval and early-modern Scottish Chronicles. Julia Marvin is Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. She studies historical writing and literature of late-medieval England, with particular interest in Anglo- Norman, manuscript studies, and the prose Brut tradition. She has published The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation (2006), The Unassuming Reader: F. W. Maitland and the Editing of Anglo-Norman, in The Book Unbound (2004), and articles in Arthurian Literature, The Medieval Chronicle, and Studies in Philology. She is now working on a book on the manuscripts of the Anglo-Norman prose Brut.

11 Contributors xiii Lister M. Matheson is Professor of Medieval Studies at Michigan State University and an International Fellow at Queen s University Belfast. He has published The Prose Brut : The Development of a Middle English Chronicle (1998), Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century English Chronicles (1999), and (as general editor) Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England (2004), as well as numerous articles on medieval English chronicles and other texts. He has also been an associate editor of the Middle English Dictionary (Ann Arbor). Marigold Anne Norbye is a part-time lecturer at University College London (UCL) and also teaches palaeography at courses run by the University of London. After postgraduate studies at UCL and the École des Chartes in Paris, she completed her doctoral thesis in 2004 on a fifteenth-century French genealogical chronicle, A tous nobles qui aiment beaux faits et bonnes histoires. She has published articles based on her thesis in Journal of Medieval History (2007), Nottingham Mediaeval Studies (2007), and The Medieval Chronicle (2008). Forthcoming articles include Roll or Codex? The Manifold Forms of a Fifteenth-Century French Genealogical Chronicle (work in progress). She is also preparing an edition of three textual versions of A tous nobles for the Société de l histoire de France, of which she is a member. Sarah L. Peverley teaches in the School of English at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests lie in the relationship between literature, history, and political discourse, in reception history, and in the production and dissemination of manuscripts. She has published articles on the reception of John Hardyng s Chronicle, the depiction of kingship and governance in fifteenth-century chronicles, scribal editing, and the political consciousness of late-medieval writers in England. She is currently co-editing an edition of the first version of Hardyng s Chronicle for TEAMS Middle English Texts and is at work on a new edition of the second version for Boydell and Brewer s Medieval Chronicles Series. Nia M. W. Powell is a lecturer in the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology at the University of Bangor. Her main research interests are in earlymodern Wales, particularly its economic and social structure, and she has published work on urban development, urban demography, and the Welsh upland economy. She has also published on aspects of Welsh legal history and cultural history, including a study of female poets during the medieval and early-modern periods. She was recently director of an ESRC research project on Records of Lay Taxation in Wales Recent publications include Do Numbers Count? Towns in Early Modern Wales, Urban History, 32 (2005), Urban Population in Early Modern Wales Revisited, Welsh History Review, 23 (2007), and Near the

12 xiv Contributors margin of existence? Upland Prosperity in Wales during the Early Modern Period, Studia Celtica, 41 (2007). Raluca L. Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bangor University, UK. She has written a monograph, The Gentry Context for Malory s Morte Darthur (2003), and initiated and co-edited three collections of essays: (with K. S. Whetter) Reviewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes (2005), (with Alison Truelove) Gentry Culture in Late Medieval England (2005), and (with W. Marx) Readers and Writers of the Brut Chronicle, special issue, Trivium (2006). She has also written and published articles on Arthurian romance, medieval chronicles (including genealogy), and related topics. She is currently co-editing (with Cory Rushton) a Companion to Medieval English Popular Romance and writing a monograph on the topic of spiritual journeys in medieval literature. John Spence completed his doctoral thesis, Re-imagining History in Anglo- Norman Prose Chronicles, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in He has published articles on Anglo-Norman prose chronicles in Reading Medieval Studies (2006) and English Manuscript Studies (2006). He works as a civil servant for the Welsh Assembly Government.