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The Bluets 98 was again present; his arms appear in the Galloway Roll of Arms 420 . Brian Timms notes that this roll is not definitley linked with any particular event in 1300, which is certainly its date, but that it probably refers to a skirmish which took place about three weeks after the siege of Caerlaverock 421 . However Brown 422 associates it with a fight at the River Cree some three weeks after the siege . A good account of the fight appears in Barrow‘s excellent book on the period: the English army reached the [River] Cree and found the Scots facing them across the tidal estuary. . . . The archers on both sides exchanged shots across the river, and when the tide went out the English infantry crossed over and harassed the enemy at close quarters. In each army the cavalry was grouped in three brigades. Edward, mistrusting snares and traps which the Scots were reported to have laid, wished to keep the English horse on the east side. But owing to a misunderstanding the earl of Hereford's brigade went over, whereupon the king and his son Edward of Caernarvon followed in support. At this the three Scottish cavalry brigades, commanded respectively by Buchan, Comyn of Badenoch, and Umfraville, took to flight, many knights abandoning their horses and fleeing to the moors. 423 It is said that the Galloway roll was composed soon after this and that it only includes the knights in the King and his 16-year-old son's squadrons 424 . If this is correct John Bluet was one of either Edward I or Edward of Caernarvon‘s personal knights. 420 http://perso.numericable.fr/briantimms/rolls/gallowayGA3.htm 421 http://www.briantimms.com/rolls/gallowayGA1.htm The Galloway Roll manuscript is M14bis, pp376-90, College of Arms, London. Edward I commenced the siege of Caerlaverock Castle on July 10 1300 and battering rams and trebuchets made short work of the castle and rope tied to the nearest trees made even shorter work of some of the hapless garrison [Barrow, GS (2005) Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland p146] 422 Brown, NM (1996) Gules Crusily and a Fess Dancetty Or Research/Penn State, Vol. 17, no. 3, online at http://www.rps.psu.edu/sep96/gules.html 423 Barrow, GS (2005) Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland p148 424 Brown, NM (1996) Gules Crusily and a Fess Dancetty Or Research/Penn State, Vol. 17, no. 3, online at http://www.rps.psu.edu/sep96/gules.html
The Bluets 99 John was probably back in Wiltshire in the late autumn of 1300; in August the Pope sent a letter to Edward I demanding that he should withdraw from Scotland, referring to his Bull of the previous year, which Winchelsea had only just presented to the King. Edward deferred his answer, but on October 30 th announced a truce with the Scots. 425 Edward invaded Scotland again in 1301 and continued to harry the Scots in 1302 and 1303. John Bluet was certainly in Scotland towards the end of this period. In 1303 he was given respite of service due in Southampton and Wiltshire because he is going to Scotland with the King 426 and later in the year this was extended because he was staying with Ralph de Monte Hermeri 427 in Scotland. John Bluet was more involved with the royal family at this time than just being one of their knights; he stood surety for Joan of Acre. This is known because shortly after the return from Scotland he was given a grant by the King that neither he nor his heirs were to be molested by reason of his having been one of the pledges for the debts of Joan, countess of Gloucester and Hertford, the king's daughter to the king in his lifetime, who is bound to the king in 8,000 marks to have again her goods which for certain causes he had taken into his hands, and also for part of the debts wherein Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, sometime her husband, was bound to the king in his lifetime 428 Joan was married to Gilbert de Clare, the 7th Earl of Hertford, in 1290. He died in 1295 and she secretly married Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, who was a member of her personal household, in 1297. King Edward I, who was arranging a marriage for her to an Italian nobleman, was extremely upset when he found out. He threw Monthermer in prison, and 425 Powicke, M (1962) The Thirteenth Century 1216 – 1307 The Oxford History of England Clarendon Press p693 426 Calendar Close Rolls 1277 - 1325 p79 427 Calednar Close Rolls 1277 – 1325 p92 428 Calendar Patent Rolls Edw I vol 3 1292-1301 p534 dated September 20 th 1300
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