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WAR WITH SCOTLAND

from JEAN LE BEL'S CHRONICLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

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How young King Edward resumed war against the young King David of Scotland, his brother-in-law.

After King Edward, still in his youth, had administered these two most notable executions and confined the Queen his mother as you've heard, he formed a new council of the wisest and most respected men in all his land and governed with great distinction, maintaining peace in the realm with their sound guidance. And he arranged frequent jousts and tournaments and assemblies of ladies, and won great respect throughout his kingdom and great renown in every land.

He continued this noble rule during the period of truce between himself and the kingdom of Scotland. But when this truce expired, he was offended at hearing that the young King David had taken possession of the city of Berwick – which rightly belonged to his kingdom and which the good King Edward had always held freely and in peace (as had his father for a good while after) – and also that King David, his brother-in-law, had not yet recognised the Scottish kingdom as a fiefdom of the English crown and paid him due homage for it. He at once sent great delegations to young King David and his council to request that he relinquish the fine city of Berwick, for it was his rightful inheritance and had always belonged to the kings of England his predecessors, and that he should come and pay him homage for the kingdom of Scotland which he ought to hold as his vassal.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2011

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