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From: "William A. Reitwiesner" <>
Subject: Re: Edward I Bigod?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:33:05 EDT


"Jeffrey T. Chipman" <> posted:

> As for Edward II's "escape," Manuel de Fieschi, canon of York,
>wrote Edward III a letter in which he claimed that Edward II escaped to
>Corfe, then to Ireland, back to Sandwich, England, then to Normandy, to
>Avignon, to Brabant, and on to Italy, where he entered a hermitage. No
>corroboration of this tale.

The letter is printed in Stubbs' *Chronicles of Edward I and Edward II* in
the introduction to Vol. II, pp. ciii-cviii. See also T. F. Tout, "The
captivity and death of Edward of Carnarvon", *The Bulletin of the John
Rylands Library*, Vol. 6, no. 1, 1920.

An art historian, Anna Benedetti, in *Edoardo II d'Inghilterra all'Abbazia
di S. Alberto di Butrio* (Palermo: Gaetano Priulla, 1924), claims to have
found supporting evidence of the escape of Edward II in some of the
artistic motifs in the decoration in the monastery where Edward II was
supposed to have ended up. According to her, they resemble artistic motifs
used in England during the reign of Edward II. See G. P. Cutting and
Thomas W. Lyman, "Where is Edward II", *Speculum*, vol. LIII, no. 3 (July
1978), pp. 522-544.

William Addams Reitwiesner

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