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336 SCOTTISH ANNALS
1222
ANNALS OF DTJNSTABLE, IN ANNALES MONASTICI, VOL. Ill,
PP. 77-78. 1
In the same year [1222] a certain bishop 2 of the kingdom
nates of the land: the said archbishop conducting the ceremony of
marriage.") The parts in brackets are omitted by MS. E, which places the
marriage (rightly) " "
in the same city of York.
In 1231 Richard, archbishop of Canterbury, accused Hubert de Burgh
before the pope of having as wife the cousin of his former wife. M.P., Chr.
Maj., iii, 205.
In R.W., iii, 33, one of the charges ("false charges," M.P., Chr. Maj.,
iii, 221) brought by Henry III against Hubert de Burgh in 1232 is that John
had intrusted to him the care of Margaret, intending Henry to marry her, but
that Hubert had seduced her, and afterwards married her " hoping for the
kingdom of the Scots, if she should survive her brother." Cf. M.P., Chr.
Maj., iii, 222. So again in 1239 ; ibid., iii, 618. But cf. infra, s.a. 1234.
"
Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., vi, 70-72 : Also that he should answer for this,
that when on one occasion the lord king William of Scotland gave his two
daughters to the lord king John, and whereas the elder ought to have been
married to the lord king [Henry] or to earl Richard, if the lord king should
die, for which marriage also the same king William quit-claimed to king
John all his right which he had in the lands of Cumberland, Westmoreland
and Northumbria, and moreover gave him fifteen thousand marks of silver :
[Hubert de Burgh] had married her before the lord king was of such age as
to be able to decide whether he wished to have her as wife or not. And so,
that when the lord king came to age he had to give the king of Scotland who
is now two hundred librates of land for the quit-claiming of the aforesaid lands,
because the former conventions had not been adhered to. And this not-
withstanding that [Hubert] had previously married the countess of Glou-
cester, who had formerly been wedded to the lord king John while he was an
earl, and whom king John had intrusted to his guardianship, and marriage
with whom [John] had previously sold to Geoffrey de Mandeville for twenty
thousand marks ; and whereas either of them was bound to the other by
relationship in a certain degree.
"
To this [Laurence of St. Albans] replies that he never knew of the con-
vention made between the two kings, namely of marriage to be contracted
with the lord king or with earl Richard ; but that she was to be given in
marriage by the lord king with the advice of his magnates, and was given in
marriage with their advice, is clear both from letters of lord Pandulf, then
legate of England, and by letters of the archbishop of Canterbury, of bishops,
of earls and of barons. Nor indeed could that convention have been an
impediment if it had been made : for when she was married the king was of
such age as to have been able to have contracted with her or with another if
he had wished.
"
Concerning the relationship between the countess of Gloucester and the
daughter of the king of Scotland he knows nothing. Concerning the two
hundred librates of land offered to the king of Scotland, nothing was done by
the earl of Kent. Concerning the countess of Gloucester he says that she
was not in the guardianship of Hubert, but was her own mistress, and could
marry whom she wished after the death of Geoffrey de Mandeville ; since
the lord king John had previously sold marriage with the same countess to
the said Geoffrey.
" And if this does not suffice, he will say move ; and concerning this he
is prepared [to do what his peers shall decide]." (The conclusion is supplied
from ibid., 65.)
1 For this affair cf. Chr. of Melr., 139, s.a. 1222 ; and the Flatey Book,
in Icel. Sag., i, 229-230 ; ii, 232-233.
2
Adam, previously abbot of Melrose ;
of Caithness in
he became bishop