Izabella falconi biography of william

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Hi again Kate, and thanks for the great comment! I might have to write a review of the latest Mathilde novel sometime. Doherty makes Stephen Dunheved a Dominican friar, which he certainly wasn't that was his brother Thomas; Stephen was lord of Dunchurch near Rugby and definitely not a man of religion , so that's a pretty huge error for a start, and I remember there being loads more will have to re-read it.

I got sooooo sick of being told all the time how beautiful and desirable Isabella is. Infuriating, especially the one about changing Ed III's date of birth, which I think is unforgivable. And he mentions in every Mathilde novel that Isabella was buried next to Roger Mortimer at the Greyfriars in London when she died in , which is a myth; Mort was buried in Coventry.

If Doherty doesn't know that he bloody well should, and if he knows it's wrong but writes it anyway to increase the 'romance' of their relationship and doesn't acknowledge it - well, he's just spreading untruths. There are some strange theories on soc. Someone was able to date Edward's ordering of masses for Piers' brother Guillaume Arnaud to September I think it is very likely that Edward would have paid all his funeral expenses, and evidence would turn up if someone was able to check the Exchequer records for September and October.

I had wondered whether his wife was still alive when he went to England in - he seems to have spent very considerable periods of time away from Gascony and that must have been a hardship for him. I wonder if Guillaume Arnaud ever married. If he had, we could expect to find evidence for it, such as wedding gifts from Edward, etc. There are some very, very weird theories on soc.

I still giggle at the post a few years ago speculating that Hugh Despenser the younger's daughters Isabel born c. LOL, that's classic. Calendar of Chancery Warrants , pp. It's so frustrating. I'll have a dig around as soon as I can to see if I can find more about Guillaume Arnaud, but am no too optimistic Are the Chancery Warrants available to view online and hopefully for free?

Also, soc. It would seem rather unlikely that Piers' two brothers who lived in England would have had no children. I'm not sure what Hamilton's source is for Piers' two younger brothers - how does he know they were Piers' brothers? Then there's all the confusion over Fortaner de Lescun, who Hamilton says was Claramonde's brother but is called her son in a petition.

I saw Raymond and Piers the cleric mentioned on soc. They seem to be able to spend alot of time discussing persons who don't really exist, such as Piers Gaveston the elder, who was "really" Piers' father rather than Arnaud As for Piers' brothers in England - we know that Guillaume Arnaud lived in England from until his death in and Bourd presumably also a brother lived in England, and may be the second brother who was supposedly buried at Langley with Piers - so it would be somewhat unusual if neither of these men had any children, even illegitimate children.

The children may not have ended up in official records, of course I don't know of any evidence of Piers' younger brothers Gerard, Raymond ever being in England - unless the Raymond soc. Hamilton I think says that Alexander was in Ireland in and he presumes that Alexander had gone there with Piers in , but there does not seem to be any proof of that.

As for Fortaner, I suppose if Fortaner Senior did not have any children he could have designated one of his sister's sons to be his heir - but unless he was near death, why was he so certain he would not have children of his own? I just wish someone would write a new biography of Piers and clear these things up! Will write more tomorrow no time at the moment!

I found the reference to Raymond on soc. The text is in Latin so I won't print it here. I don't know why someone at the National Archives thinks Fortaner is a half-brother. I did see a genealogy site that listed him as a son of Claramonde by a previous marriage Piers is referred to as "another brother" This is all so muddled! Dear Kathryn, please forgive me for jumping in here so late; but, your -- excellent!

If queen Isabella was so concerned with royal honour, why did she finally take a lover herself? And, if her family had such strict views on adultery as they demonstrated in the Tour de Nesle affair, why would her brother Charles tolerate Isabella's affair, while it went on under his eye and jurisdiction, and then even support her in it? Well, looking up the story once again, I stumbled on another question.

Wikipedia's Tour de Nesle article contains the following statement: "Isabella looked frequently to her father for help addressing the problems in her English marriage". It's Alison Weir's She-Wolf book that is given as reference. Now, in my humble estimation, Alison Weir is much more of a gossip-monger than a serious historian, and I wouldn't spend a cent on another book of hers, if someone held a pistol to my head.

So I hope you'll forgive me for passing the question on to you -- do you know anything about Isabella's complaints to her father? Still very much enjoying your blog, though I'm such a lazy commenter! Dear George, How lovely to see you again! I do hope all is well with you, and thanks for taking the time to leave such a great comment.

I've just come in from work and it's already 9. Hi again George! OK, it's the morning now, I've had my coffee, so time to answer your questions. For a relationship said to be 'flaunted' and 'notorious' there's precious little evidence that it was sexual. A couple of chroniclers say they had a 'familiarity' but say the same thing about Ed and Piers.

The Scalacronica calls Mortimer Isa's 'chief counsellor' with no hint of a sexual affair, and another chronicle can't remember which offhand merely describes him as 'of her faction'. The Lanercost chronicler speaks of a 'report' that they had a 'liaison', but is clearly just recording gossip. Ed II himself wrote a letter in saying that Isa and Mort kept company 'in and out of house', perhaps a euphemism, but this occurs in the middle of his complaint that Mort, his enemy, had become Isa's adviser in France.

As for Isa being pregnant in , the only writer who says this is Froissart, who wasn't even born till about and first visited England in the s. No English writer even hints at a pregnancy, and there was no living child, although some recent novelists have invented one. I agree with you that Charles IV isn't likely to have tolerated and encouraged his sister's flagrant adultery, given his own experience.

I give some credence to the notion that Isa, who had a sacred sense of her own royalty and exalted position, wouldn't have let a non-royal man touch her. None of Isa's letters to her father survive, that I know of, so again it's just what a chronicler says she wrote - and the chronicler in question is Walsingham, who died in not How could he possibly have known what Isa wrote to her father a century earlier???

And what 'problems' in her 'English marriage'? Possibly at the very beginning in , before Ed granted her an income, but even then, I'm not sure. I'd better stop there, or I'll end up writing an essay.

Izabella falconi biography of william

Hello Kathryn, Thank you ever so much for your detailed and satisfying answer! And how could it, after their oh so fulfilling relationship has been hammered into my brains by nearly everything I've ever read on Edward II -- outside of your blog but I don't recall ever having seen that myth explicitly challenged here, either, and I rarely miss one of your articles.

In any case, your explanation does make a lot of sense! I was expecting this answer, since similar things can be said about the bulk of Weir's assertions that I know of chroniclers seem to be pure gospel to her, at least as long as they fall in with her point of view. However, I wanted it to be more than a mere suspicion. Thank you for clarifying!

Well, may I just add that reading your blog has made Edward II quite lovable in my eyes -- I was especially charmed by that bit about him going to enjoy a picnic with his niece, in the face of impending doom and since I'm not so easily shocked by an uncle-niece "incest" as American readers seem to be, I found the idea of them being lovers rather appalling.

Thanks again, and have a nice evening! You're very welcome, George! You're right - I don't think I've ever written about Mort and Isa's relationship. Based on very little evidence; personally, I find the relationship of Ed and Piers far more romantic and appealing - and even Ed and Eleanor, as you said. Have a lovely weekend! And many thanks for catching my meaning.

I did indeed mean a. And have another great weekend! And dont forget there are a couple of books waiting to be finished, edited and published and read by your many friends and followers! C'mon everyone, support me in persuading KAthryn to get on with the biog and novel! I personally would bet a great sum of money that all five children listed here have Edward II's DNA, but until the DNA work is done, there are going to be those who find a way to consider that a highly-supervised year old girl could get away with a scheme like this.

Thanks so much, Summer! Yes, totally agree - Isabella was raised strictly and had attendants around her all the time, and also I think a lot of people nowadays tend to forget that she had a very strong and even sacred sense of royalty, and the chance that she would have tried to foist a non-royal child on the English throne is absolutely minimal.

Well finally someone that shares my belief! However I have only one correction. The birthplace of Edward II was indeed in Caernarfon, but not in the castle itself. William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. Foundational reading, now considered somewhat conservative, but still a superb example of close reading of the major novels.

Doyle, Don. Invaluable history of Lafayette County, the actual political and geographical unit Faulkner transformed into a mythical realm. Interbraids actual events with their fictional counterparts. Fowler, Doreen. Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, Most detailed and Lacanian psychological approach to the major novels.

Argues the construction of culture in Faulkner comes through language. Irwin, John. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Seminal text in Faulkner studies, which demonstrates the effectiveness of structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to his oeuvre, concentrating on an intertextual reading of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!

Kartiganer, Donald M. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, Establishes how competing structures and loose overlays contribute to the power of the great novels, which is missing in the final works. Matthews, John T. Bleikasten suggests the novel does not succeed because Faulkner did not participate in the war and was too removed from the setting in France to provide a convincing narrative.

Faulkner not only bought a carefully tailored RAF uniform with decorations he did not earn, he kept that uniform and wore it proudly when he returned home from Toronto and on special occasions. His stepson Malcolm Franklin first saw Faulkner at a piano recital wearing that uniform and cap and thought Faulkner was a policeman. Faulkner in his fifties was proud that he could still fit into that uniform.

That uniform, in pristine condition, is on display right now in the Faulkner exhibition at the University of Virginia. Knowing all this does not make A Fable a better novel, but it does explain why a consummate craftsman like William Faulkner could not see that what had so impressed and engaged him would not thrive on the page. Biography shows how a subject like William Faulkner made literature out of his life, a literature of and from himself.