Medieval Birmingham : : People and Places, 1070-1553.

• Author: Hemingway, John.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 pages)

This book attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how Birmingham evolved from a village into its present role as the second city of the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Picture Credits
• Figure 1: Detail of the Gough Road map, circa 1360. Birmingham was important enough to be shown on the Worcester via Droitwich to Lichfield Road. The modern place-names in black were placed there by the writer.
• Figure 2: Drift and solid geology of the Bermingham Manor.
• Figure 3: Contours, drainage and routes in the Manor of Bermingham.
• Figure 4: Coat-of-arms of the Bermingham family of England. The shield with a dexter bend fuzil, the lozenge at the top on the left and the bottom on the right, is supposed to represent a distaff (a stick or spindle on to which wool or flax is wound for s
• Figure 5: Family tree of the English lords of Bermingham.
• Figure 6: A thirteenth century copy of the Bermingham market charter of 1166 and the confirmatory charter of 1189. The original documents are now lost. Reproduced by permission of the National Archives, London, C52/19 (41-42).
• Figure 7: Map of the estates of Peter de Bermingham in the barony of Dudley, West Midlands.
• Figure 8: Lands held by the Berminghams in the Home Counties. Hoggeston and Kingston Bagpuize were in the lordship of Dudley, Maidencourt, Shutford, and Braunston were not Dudley property.
• Figure 9: The coat-of-arms of William de Bermingham VI as displayed in the Charles, 163 and St George's Rolls, E413 in 1285.
• Figure 10: Tomb of a Sir William de Bermingham in St Martin's Church, Birmingham as drawn for William Dugdale's book.
• Figure 11: Drawing of a medieval knight displaying the Bermingham family shield in St Martin's church in John Thackray Bunce's book. The decorative side of the tomb is different from the Dugdale drawing. It may have been an effigy of either Sir William de.
• Figure 12: Medieval knight effigy in St Martin's today. Reproduced by permission of Elaine Mitchell.
• Figure 13: Armour as worn by a Sir William de Bermingham (VII or VIII).
• Figure 14: Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345) being given a helm and a lance by his wife, Lady Luttrell (Agnes de Sutton, the sister of Sir John de Sutton I, Baron Dudley), while his daughter-in-law, Beatrice le Scrope, is about to hand him a shield. The i
• Figure 15: Coat-of-arms of Sir Henry and Sir Fulk de Bermingham as used at the Battle of Crécy 1358 and the Siege of Calais, based on the Irish coat but using a different colour scheme, Argent (silver) and Sable (black). These arms were later used by Sir
• Figure 16: Coat-of-arms of the Bermingham family of Ireland, adopted by Sir Fulk. The shield shows a partie per pale shield divided, indented, or (gold) and gules (red). The colours can be found in the de Clare family's coat. The indents are a version of
• Figure 17: Tomb of a Sir William and Sir Fulk in St Martin's Church, Birmingham, as drawn for Sir William Dugdale's book.
• Figure 18: Fulk de Bermingham's tomb in St Martin's Church, Birmingham today. Reproduced by permission of Elaine Mitchell.
• Figure 19: Coat of arms of Sir John de Bermingham in the British Museum. The scallops represented pilgrimages and may either relate to Sir John's grandfather's journey to Santiago de Compostela in Spain or a pilgrimage he had made himself.
• Figure 20: Tomb of Sir John de Bermingham in St Martin's Church, Birmingham, as drawn for William Dugdale's Book. The Irish Bermingham coat-of-arms can be clearly seen on his torso.
• Figure 21: Tomb of Sir John de Bermingham as drawn in John Thackray Bunce's book.
• Figure 22: Sir John de Bermingham's alabaster table top tomb in St Martin's Church, Birmingham, today. Reproduced by permission of Elaine Mitchell.
• Figure 23: Plate armour of Sir John de Bermingham.
• Figure 24: Both Sir William IX and Sir William X used the English and Sir Henry's Irish coats-of-arms.
• Figure 25: Map of Ireland showing the estates of the Berminghams.
• Figure 26: Anglo-Irish Bermingham family tree.
• Figure 27: Leinster and the Bermingham lands.
• Figure 28: Carbury Castle, home of the Barons of Ardee, the Irish Tethmoy de Bermingham family.
• Figure 29: Birmingham Tower, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Supposedly named after Sir John de Bermingham, Earl of Louth.
• Figure 30: Connaught and the Bermingham lands.
• Figure 31: Athenry Castle (now called Moyode Castle), home of the Barons of Athenry, the Irish de Bermingham family. Although the tower house shown here was not built until 1550 the de Bermingham one was very similar. Reproduced by permission of Carl Chin
• Figure 32: Estates of the Barony of Dudley with the lands and tenants of the Bermingham family from 1280 to 1322.
• Figure 33: Parles coat-of-arms, blue and gold of Dudley, indented of the Irish Bermingham coat.
• Figure 34: Coat of arms of the Bushbury family. The broad band and narrower bands on either side called a fess cottised, represent military might. The scallop shells signify that the family had travelled. If a member of the family had visited the shrine o
• Figure 35: Coat-of-arms of Rushall as used by John Harpur, from the Rushall Psalter, a parchment volume written in the 15th century. Its first owner, John Harpur, pronounced a curse on anyone who removed the book in an ownership poem on f. 20v of the volu
• Figure 36: The coat of arms of the Enville family was the same as the Barons of Dudley.
• Figure 37: A fifteenth century misericord (a shelf intended to support a person in a partially standing position during long periods of prayer) in St Mary the Virgin's Church, Enville, showing a castle with infantry men and horsemen coming out of the gate
• Figure 38: Stafford family coat of arms.
• Figure 39: Archery practice at the butts, from a fourteenth century image in the Luttrell Psalter.
• Figure 40: The eleventh century Welsh war. William de Bermingham I was born while his parents were on active service in Gwynedd.
• Figure 41: In the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda. Gervase Paganell, Baron Dudley and Peter de Bermingham fought on the empress' side.
• Figure 42: The medieval sea wall of Kyrenia, Cyprus, 2015.
• Figure 43: The medieval castle of St Hilarion, Cyprus, 2015.
• Figure 44: Map of Palestine at the time of the Third Crusade. Sir William de Bermingham II fought with King Richard against Saladin.
• Figure 45: Battle plan of Lewes. Sir Roger de Somery, Baron Dudley, fought with the king
• Sir William de Bermingham V was with Simon de Montfort's forces.
• Figure 46: Battle plan of Evesham. Sir William de Bermingham V fought on Simon de Montfort's side and was killed in the battle.
• Figure 47: Simon de Montfort was supposedly killed by Roger Mortimer and then hacked to pieces by the royalists as depicted in this contemporary drawing. It is not known if William de Bermingham V suffered the same fate.
• Figure 48: Map of battles in Scotland. William de Bermingham VII was a regular participant in these wars.
• Figure 49: In the fourteenth century jousting was a popular sport with the knightly class, and with Sir John de Bermingham in particular. By the Master of the Codex Manesse.
• Figure 50: Battle of Boroughbridge. Sir John de Somery, Baron Dudley and Sir William de Bermingham VIII fought on the king's side, William de Stafford of Amblecote on Lancaster's.
• Figure 51: Battle of Halidon Hill, Berwick-on-Tweed. Walter de Clodeshale of Bermingham fought in this engagement.
• Figure 52: Map of the Normandy Campaign, 1346-7. The English army included Sir Fulk and Sir Henry de Bermingham with Sir John de Pyrie of Perry, Sir William Bowles of Rushall and Sir Richard Enfeld of Enville among their retinue.
• Figure 53: Plan of the Battle of Crécy, 1346. Sir Fulk and Sir Henry de Bermingham were with King Edward's division
• Sir John Sutton, Baron Dudley, was in the Earls of Northampton and Arundel's division.
• Figure 54: Plan of the Battle of Poitiers. Sir Fulk de Bermingham fought in this battle.
• Figure 55: Plan of the Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403. It is likely that Sir William Bermingham IX fought in this engagement.
• Figure 56: Henry V's conquest of France. Sir William IX of Bermingham and Sir John Harpur fought with the king.
• Figure 57: Plan of the Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415. Sir William de Bermingham IX and Sir John Harpur of Bermingham fought in this battle.
• Figure 58: The medieval manor of Bermingham.
• Figure 59: An archaeological excavation in 2000/1 revealed the hyrsonedych. The ditch was seven meters wide and two meters deep. The brick wall above the feature displays how ancient boundaries have survived until recently. Reproduced by permission of Mic
• Figure 60: A pillow-mound in a warren, shown in the fourteenth century Luttrell Psalter. Coneys (rabbits) were a source of fur and meat to the people who kept them.
• Figure 61: The site of the moated manor house in Westley's map of 1731. Reproduced by permission of the Library of Birmingham.
• Figure 62: The environs of St Thomas' Priory with a conjectural priory complex.