Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century

S.J. Drake

Preface: a Little Understood Land Part I: Cornwall: Its Gentlemen, Government and Identity The Very Ends of the Earth: an Overview of Fourteenth-Century Cornwall Office-Holding in a Wild Spot Since the Time of King Arthur: Gentry Identity and the Commonalty of Cornwall An Extraordinary Folk: the Cornish People Part II: Distant Dominium: Comital, Ducal and Regnal Lordship The Final Tempestuous Years of the Earldom, 1300-1336 The Black Prince and his Duchy, 1337-1376 Richard of Bordeaux: Duke of Cornwall and King of England, 1376-1399 Part III: Connectivity: Cornwall and the Wider Realm Communication, Movement, and Exchange: Connectivity Frameworks Sovereign Kings and Loyal Subjects: Regnal Connectivity Pillagers with Long Knives: Military Connectivity Formidable Lords and True Tenants: Lordly Connectivity Gold, Tin, and Terrible Ale: Commercial Connectivity Lawless Judges and Litigious Cornishmen: Legal Connectivity God and Cornwall: Ecclesiastical Connectivity Of Shipmen, Smugglers, and Pirates: Maritime Connectivity Connecting Cornwall Conclusion: Cornish Otherness and English Hegemony? Epilogue: Contesting Cornwall Appendix I. Cornwall's Office-holders, c. 1300-c. 1400 Appendix II. Cornish Men-at-Arms and Mounted Archers who Served the King between c. 1298 and c. 1415 Appendix III. Cornish Ports that Sent Ships to Royal Fleets between c. 1297 and c. 1420 Bibliography