Annals Londonienses. In the same year, on Sunday, the feast of Saint Katherine [25th November 1302], the lady Margaret [Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland [aged 20]]1, daughter of the King of England and Countess of Holland and Zeeland, was married to the lord Humphrey de Bohun [aged 26], Earl of Hereford, at Caversham near Reading. In the same year, at the feast of Saint Andrew, the truce between the lords the Kings of France and England expired. It was afterwards prolonged until the following Easter, in the hope that peace might be restored. The citizens of Bordeaux and the other magnates of Gascony, not knowing of the prolongation of the truce, forcibly expelled all the men of the King of France from the city of Bordeaux and from the castles. Thus, in their regions, they did not observe the truce with the French. In the same year, on Thursday, the feast of Saint Valentine, the Counts of Savoy and Lincoln and the lord Otto de Grandson crossed into France to conclude peace finally between the Kings of France and England. In the same year, on the eighth day before the Ides [6th] of January, at Crondall near Odiham, a letter was issued by the archbishop to the Bishop of London, stating that he would visit the Bishop of London on the fourth court day immediately following the feast of Saint Valentine. When that day came, the lord archbishop entered the city and diocese on Tuesday, namely Shrove Tuesday.
Eodem anno, die Dominica, in festo Sanctæ Katerinæ desponsatæ fuit domina Margareta filia regis Angliæ, comitissa Hoylandiæ et Salondiæ, domino Humfrido de Bohun comiti Herefordiæ, apud Caversham juxta Redyng. Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Andreæ defecerunt treugæ pacis inter dominos reges Franciæ et Angliæ; et postea fuerunt prolongatæ usque ad festum Paschæ proximo sequens, sub spe pacis reformandæ. Cives vero Burdegalæ et ceteri magnates de Vasconia, prolongationem treugarum non scientes, omneshomines regis Franciæ a civitate Burdegali et & castris vi expulerunt; et sic in partibus suis treugas cum Francigenis non tenuerunt. Eodem anno, die Jovis, in festo Sancti Valentini, transfretarunt comites Sabaudiæ et Lincolniæ, et dominus Otto de Grandissono, in Francia ad pacem inter reges Franciæ et Angliæ finaliter affirmandam. Eodem anno octavo ydus Januarii apud Croundale juxta Odiham, emanavit littera ab archiepiscopo ad episcopum Londoniensem, quod autem episcopum Londoniensem visitaret quarto die juridico proximo post festum Sancti Valentini; quo die adveniente, intravit idem dominus archiepiscopus civitatem et dyocesim, die Martis, scilicet die Carnisprivii.
Note 1. The Chronicler has Margaret whereas it is Elizabeth who married Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex. His first marriage, her second. Her first husband, John, Count of Holland, who she married in 1297, was killed by a mob in 1299 aged fifteen.
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