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From: Renia <>
Subject: Re: Amie de Gaveston
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:42:51 +0000
References: <8.fb92610.27ab2a42@aol.com>, <022a01c08ca5$d96e2260$020a0a0a@bite.bevan.com>


Colin Bevan wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Amie de Gaveston
>
> > As to the "contemporary fine," it was some years after her birth. I
> suppose
> > she was born around 1314-16. The 1334 fine was discovered by Walter Lee
> > Sheppard Jr., FASG, and Amy is identified as "Amie de Gaveston, filie de
> > Petrus de Gavesto."
> >
> Wasn't Piers de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall beheaded on 19 June 1312?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rosie

Not so much formally beheaded, as murdered. The PRO seems to have material on
his funeral, for anyone whose interested..

E 101/375/15 Particulars of expenses of the carriage of three pavilions to
Langley for the funeral of Piers Gaveston.

8 Edw. II

E 101/375/16 Particulars of conveying the body of Piers Gaveston to Langley.

8 Edw. II

E 101/376/2 Particulars of Thomas de London of expenses about the body of
Piers Gaveston at Oxford.

8 Edward II.

Renia


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