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”Edward of Caernarfon and Thomas of Lancaster were apparently on very good terms before Edward’s accession. In 1305, Thomas was forced to apologise to Edward for being unable to come and attend him, as he was ill. Edward wrote back to say that he hoped to visit Thomas soon, “to see and to comfort you.” [5] This closeness continued after Edward became king of England in July 1307, a fact missed by many novelists, who assume that the two men were even then at loggerheads and that Thomas was always his cousin’s enemy. In fact, Thomas was in almost constant attendance on Edward for the first sixteen months or so of his reign, and he was one of only a handful of men, who included the king’s and Thomas’s first cousin the earl of Richmond, Hugh Despenser the Elder and his retainer Sir John Haudlo, who remained loyal to Edward II in the spring of 1308 when the majority of the barons were pressing for Piers Gaveston’s exile.”
EDWARDTHESECONDBLOGSPOT
THOMAS OF LANCASTER AND HIS RELATIONSHIP
WITH EDWARD II (1)
19 APRIL 2010
http://edwardthesecond.blogspo t.nl/2010/04/thomas-of-lancast er-and-his.html
A PROOF OF THE THEN CLOSENESS BETWEEN EDWARD OF
CAERNARFON [ON THE TIME HE WROTE THE LETTER HIS
FATHER EDWARD I WAS STILL ALIVE, WHAT MADE HIM
HEIR TO THE THRONE] AND HIS FIRST COUSIN THOMAS
OF LANCASTER
SEE THIS LETTER EDWARD OF CAERNARFON WROTE TO THOMAS
IN 1305
‘”To the earl of Lancaster, greetings and dear affection. Very dear cousin, we hold you well excused that you have not come to us, and your illness weighs heavily on us, and if we can come to you we will do it gladly, to see and to comfort you. Very dear cousin, may our lord etc [have you in his keeping]. Given as above [in Windsor park, 22 September 1305].”
EDWARDTHESECONDBLOGSPOT
THREE LETTERS OF EDWARD OF CAERNARFON, 1305
18 AUGUST 2017
http://edwardthesecond.blogspo t.nl/2017/08/three-letters- from-edward-of-caernarfon.html