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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the year of our Lord 1279, Walter Giffard (age 54),1 Archbishop of York, died on the 22nd of April. He was succeeded by William de Wickwane2. In the second year of his archiepiscopate, wishing to visit his suffragan Robert of Holy Island, Bishop of Durham, and the chapter of Durham, he was repelled for they shut the city gates against him. Nevertheless, taking up his pontifical insignia, he preached in the city square, choosing as his sermon theme: "I have come down to see Judah and Jerusalem." After delivering his sermon, he pronounced a dreadful sentence of excommunication upon those who opposed him and placed the city under ecclesiastical interdict. But they treated all of this lightly, relying on a constitution of Pope Innocent IV concerning censuses and Roman exactions, and they appealed, claiming that he should not be admitted unless he had first visited his own chapter and diocese, which he had not done. For that constitution states: "We decree that any archbishop who wishes to visit his province must first take care to visit the chapter, city, and diocese of his own church." A year later, with the Bishop of Durham now dead, the archbishop returned again at the same time of year, around the [24th June 1280], intending another visitation. There, he suffered even greater injury than before, and after renewing the same dreadful sentence, he departed. From that time on, a lawsuit ensued in the Roman Curia at enormous expense.
Anno Domini MCCLXXIX obiit Walterus Giffard Eborum archiepiscopus X kalendas Maii. Cui successit Willelmus Wychewang. Hic in anno archiepiscopatus sui secundo suffraganeum suum Robertum de Insula Dunolmensem episcopum et capitulum Dunolmense visitare volens, passus est ibidem repulsam, clauserunt enim portas civitatis contra eum; ipse vero pontificali accepto prædicavit ibidem in platea civitatis, et assumpto themate, Descendi ut viderem Judæam et Jerusalem, et facto sermone in contradictores The bishopric sibi sententiam excommunicationis terribilem laid under fulminavit et locum eundem ecclesiastico supposuit interdicto. Ipsi vero parvipendebant omnia; fundaverant enim se super constitutionem Innocentii quarti de censibus et exactione Romana, et appellaverant, dicentes eum admitti non debere nisi proprium capitulum et dioecesim prius visitasset, quod non fecit. Dicit enim constitutio illa sic: Statuimus ut quilibet archiepiscopus, suam volens visitare provinciam, prius ecclesiæ suæ capitulum et civitatem ac dioecesim visitare procuret. Anno autem revoluto, et mortuo Dunolmensi episcopo, iterato et eodem tempore anni, scilicet circa festum Sancti Johannis Baptistæ, ibidem causa visitationis adveniens, majorem quam prius passus est injuriam, et renovata terribili sententia recessit et abiit: et extunc in Romana curia immensis sumptibus litigabant.
Note 1. The date of this archbishops death is assigned by Godwin to the 25th of April.
Note 2. MSS. Coll. Arm, and Cott. Tib. William Wickwane, Chancellor of York, was elected June 22, 1279, and consecrated at Rome on the 19th of September following.
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On 22nd June 1279 Archbishop William de Wickwane was elected Archbishop of York.
On 19th September 1279 Archbishop William de Wickwane was consecrated Archbishop of York ar Rome.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the same year, namely on the Sunday within the octave of the Epiphany of the Lord, which that year fell on the ninth of January [1284], Saint William, Archbishop of York, was translated, and reverently placed in a silver and gold reliquary by the venerable father William de Wickwane, then Archbishop of York, along with the other bishops of England who had gathered there for the occasion. The king and queen were present, together with other nobles of the realm, clergy, and a great crowd of people. On that same day, Antony de Bek (age 39) was consecrated Bishop of Durham in the same place, by Archbishop de Wickwane. Shortly afterward, the king set out for Wales, in order to stabilize and organize that land. While he was at Caernarfon, the queen gave birth to a son, whom they named Edward; this occurred in the year 1284. That same year, Alfonso (age 10), son of the king, died at Windsor.
Eodem anno, scilicet dominica infra octavas Epiphaniæ Domini, quæ fuit anno illo V idus Januarii, translatus fuit sanctus Willelmus Eborum archiepiscopus, et in capsa argentea et aurea reverenter reconditus, per venerabilem patrem Willelmum Wichewange tunc Eborum archiepiscopum, et cæteros Angliæ episcopos qui ob hoc ibidem convenerant, assistente rege et regina cum cæteris magnatibus terræ et clero et populo. Eodem etiam die consecratus est ibidem et ab eodem de Bek, archiepiscopo Antonius de Bek Dunolmensis episcopus. Et profectus est exinde rex in Walliam ut terram illam et stabiliret et ordinaret; ubi cum esset apud Carnarvan peperit ei regina filium, et vocavit nomen ejus Edwardum, scilicet MCCLXXXIV; et eodem anno obiit Alfonsus, filius Prince Alregis, apud Windesover.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the year of our Lord 1285, William, Archbishop of York, died at Pontigny, where he was also buried. He was succeeded by John Romanus, who travelled to the papal court and was consecrated there by Pope Honorius. In the same year, after Easter, the king held his parliament at Westminster in London, where he issued many statutes known as the Second Statutes of Westminster, consisting of forty-eight chapters. In that parliament, the king informed his magnates that he would be required to cross over to Gascony in order to address certain urgent matters. Once the kingdom was settled and all things were at peace, the king set out for Gascony in the following year. There, upon hearing complaints and discovering the treachery of certain men of Bordeaux, who had spoken with the King of France and promised to submit to his authority rather than remain faithful to the King of England, he ordered some to be dragged by horses. The elder ringleaders of the crime were hanged in the streets, using timber taken from their own houses. In this way he restored all of Gascony to his peace. From there, he intervened in the disputes between the kings of France, Spain, and Aragon, and succeeded in leading them toward peace and reconciliation. He also redeemed Charles of Salerno (age 31), his kinsman, from imprisonment under the King of Aragon, paying a considerable ransom1. In the following year, Charles received the crown of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Sicily at Rieti from Pope Nicholas IV, after the death of King Charles of Sicily (age 57), his father. The king remained overseas in those regions for almost three full years, and when he returned to England, he heard numerous complaints against his justices. Upon conducting inquiries and discovering the truth, he permanently exiled his chief justice, Sir Thomas de Weyland, and heavily fined his associates. He removed the powerful from office and elevated the humble in their place.
Anno Domini MCCLXXXV obiit Willelmus Eborum archiepiscopus apud Pontiniacum, ubi et reconditus jacet; cui successit Johannes Romanus qui profectus ad curiam consecratus est ibidem ab Honorio papa. Eodem anno post Pascha tenuit rex parliamentum suum apud Westmonasterium Londoniis, ubi fecit statuta multa quæ dicuntur Statuta Westmonasterii secunda, et continent XLVIII capitula; in quo parliamento prædixit rex magnatibus suis quod oporteret eum transfretare in Vasconiam, pro quibusdam arduis corrigendis: ordinataque terra, et omnibus in pace agentibus, profectus est in Vasconiam in anno sequenti, ubi audita querela et fraude cognita quorundam Burdegalensium qui cum rege Francourum locuti fuerant et promiserant se ejus potestati subjici velle nec in fide regis Angliæ ulterius permanere, quosdam fecit equis trahi, et majores natu auctores sceleris sublatis lignis de eorum domibus in plateis jussit suspendi, stabilivitque totam Vasconiam in pace sua; et extunc interposuit partes suas inter reges discordantes, regem scilicet Franciæ, Hispaniæ et Aragonum, ita scilicet quod eos ad bonum pacis et quietis allexit, redemitque Carolum principem de Murreo consanguineum suum a carcere regis Aragonum, data pecunia non modica; qui quidem Carolus in anno sequenti apud Reatam a papa Nicolao IV. regni Jerusalem et Siciliæ diadema suscepit, post obitum regis Siciliæ Caroli patris sui. Moratus est itaque rex in partibus transmarinis per tres annos fere continuos, et inde reversus in Angliam audivit querimonias multas de justiciariis suis, quibus inquisitis et cognitis ipsum capitalem justiciarium suum dominum Thomam de Weyland perpetuo exulavit, et reliquos ejus consocios pecunia mulctavit copiosa, deposuitque potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles.
Note 1. Charles of Salerno was King Edward's first cousin; Charles' mother Beatrice of Provence was a younger sister of King Edward's mother Eleanor of Provence. Charles obtained his freedom in November 1288, a sum of 30,00 marks being agreed on with Alphonso of Arragon as his ransom; and was crowned King on the 29th of the May, in the following year, at Rieti, in the duchy of Spoleto.
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On 26th or 27th August 1285 Archbishop William de Wickwane died at Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy while on his way to the papal curia to plead his case against the monks of Durham. He was buried at the Cistercian abbey there in Pontigny.