This article examines Edward III’s earldom creations of March 1337 and the endowments given to these earls by Edward III in order to support their newly acquired rank. It re-evaluates the form of these grants and the governmental processes they stimulated within a context of ideological assumptions about the inalienability of the lands and rights thought to pertain to the Crown by contemporaries, as applicable to the English polity of the mid-fourteenth century. By viewing the grants of 1337 within this intellectual, political and economic context, this article argues that the endowments supporting the earldom creations were shaped by the pressures of inalienability and public finance; that these ideas were highly prominent; and that political practice in the mid-fourteenth century correlated to and reinforced the validity and importance of these concepts. Ultimately, this article uses the example of the earldom creations of 1337 and the endowments given in support of these elevations to demonstrate the mutual interdependence of comital and royal power in mid-fourteenth century England and to show how ideas concerning political structures paralleled and grew out of political practices.

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1337 年的伯爵捐赠：中世纪晚期英格兰的政治思想和王权实践

本文考察了爱德华三世 1337 年 3 月的伯爵作品，以及爱德华三世给予这些伯爵以支持他们新获得的地位的捐赠。它重新评估了这些赠款的形式以及它们在当代人认为属于王室的土地和权利不可剥夺的意识形态假设的背景下所激发的政府进程，适用于 14 世纪中叶的英国政体. 通过在这种知识、政治和经济背景下查看 1337 的赠款，本文认为支持早期创作的捐赠是由不可剥夺性和公共财政的压力所塑造的。这些想法非常突出；并且 14 世纪中叶的政治实践与这些概念的有效性和重要性相关，并加强了这些概念。最后，本文以 1337 年的早期创造以及为支持这些提升而给予的捐赠来展示 14 世纪中叶英国的共同权力和王室权力的相互依存关系，并展示有关政治结构的思想是如何平行和发展起来的。的政治实践。