#robert burnell

[bad-1984-aus]

1984 AU where O'Brien is actually Robert Burnell and Edward 1 is Biggie B.

WHY THE FUCK DID I NOT SEE THIS

RABIA I HATE YOU AND YET THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I’VE EVER SEEN

[thephantomofthelibrary]

There were good reasons behind Edward’s decision to include his old friend Roger Mortimer on his team of caretaker-governors; Montfort’s killer was a strong man to have holding the reigns of power. Yet Mortimer, as the most pugnacious Marcher lord of all, was unlikely to lend a sympathetic ear to any complaints from Llywelyn, his long-time enemy. Nor, more surprisingly, were his fellow regents, not even the more normally judicious Robert Burnell. Their conniving collective mindset in the case of Humphrey de Bohun’s illegal intervention in Brecon is striking revealed in a surviving letter. Having inspected the Treaty of Montgomery, Burnell discovered that, alas, ‘the land of Brecon’ had indeed been ceded to the price of Wales; but, as he went on to explain to Mortimer, nothing was written about who should hold the castles in the region. It was, therefore, 'very expedient to defend them, and to give effective assistance for their defence.’ Unsurprisingly, Llywelyn took the view that his right to Brecon had been comprehended the possession of fortifications within it, and continued with his efforts to expel Bohun and his allies. The regents responded by adopting a morally superior tone, declaring themselves shocked that the prince 'had presumed to besiege and occupy the castles’, and tut-tutting that his behaviour led to the 'very great disturbance of the peace’.

 Marc Morris, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

[burnell-suggestions]

reorganise the workings of the chancellery 💛