What is it about?
It is about the relations between England, Ireland and the Papacy, with particular reference to the document of 1317 known as the Irish Remonstrance against English rule. The paper is a short note prompted by a document of c.1600 in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano, A.A., Arm. I–XVIII, 4071.
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Why is it important?
The Irish Remonstrance criticising English rule in Ireland was sent to the Pope in 1317. No copy of it has ever been found the Vatican Archive. Archivio Segreto Vaticano, A.A., Arm. I–XVIII, 4071 largely confirms this writer's suspicion that the Remonstrance was probably forwarded to the government of Edward II in England with a request for reform in Ireland. If the original of the Remonstrance is ever to be found it is most likely to be in unidentified or uncatalogued material in the U.K. National Archives or in Ireland.
Perspectives
This article builds on my previous work: • 'The Irish Remonstrance of 1317: an international perspective', Irish Historical Studies, 27, Nov. 1990, pp. 112-29. (Republished in The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe: Vikings and Celts, ed. James Muldoon (Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2009). • 'The Remonstrance revisited: England and Ireland in the early fourteenth century', in Men, Women and War, Historical Studies, 18, Papers read before the XXth. Irish Conference of Historians, 1991, ed. T.G. Fraser & K. Jeffrey (Dublin, 1993), pp. 13-27. • A critical edition of the Irish Remonstrance of 1317 and of the Papal Bull Laudabiliter, in Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, ed. D.E.R. Watt, vol.6 (Aberdeen, 1991), pp. xxi-xxv, 384-404, 465-83.
Seymour Phillips
University College Dublin
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This page is a summary of: Further Thoughts on the Irish Remonstrance of 1317, July 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004693050_024.
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