tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post8397063015210859609..comments2024-03-14T05:56:44.390+00:00Comments on Edward II: Huchon Despenser's Great Hunting Adventure, 1322 (part 2)Kathryn Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-7162720103555537262022-04-18T17:50:51.682+01:002022-04-18T17:50:51.682+01:00I would imagine that, from a position of a certain...I would imagine that, from a position of a certain powerful and wealthy future to falling to nothing (and nearly death as well) that he learned a lot. I would like to think that he learned an amount of humility - something he could not have got from his father.Jules Frushernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-64451121083656586602022-04-18T17:18:00.717+01:002022-04-18T17:18:00.717+01:00I'm pretty sure they just chatted about Huchon...I'm pretty sure they just chatted about Huchon's hunting trip, heh! And as far as I remember, Huchon didn't have any land until the early 1330s, after he was finally released from captivity and knighted, when Edward III gave him some. I was just thinking how in and after 1322, Huchon must have come to think of himself as future earl of Winchester, as his grandfather's heir after his father, and I wonder how he felt when all of that was snatched away from him.Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-27480956083925789502022-04-18T17:14:31.209+01:002022-04-18T17:14:31.209+01:00I would like to have been at the meeting of the sh...I would like to have been at the meeting of the sheriff of Essex with Huchon. I wonder, was it formal or more of a chat about hunting practices. After all, what are you going to talk about with a 13-year-old lad? I am also surprised (but, there again, am I?) that he already had his own seal. He certainly seems to have had a lot more at his age than his father did (I can't remember, did he have any land at that point?)Jules Frushernoreply@blogger.com