![]() ![]() On the other hand, he might, as John of Gaunt did in the later fourteenth century, recruit people into his affinity regardless of their social weight, as an expression of his "courtly and chivalric ambitions", as Anthony Goodman said. The lord would often include men in positions of local authority, for example Justices of the peace, within his affinity. These were men the lord trusted: for example, in 1459, on the verge of the Wars of the Roses, the earl of Salisbury gathered the closest members of his affinity to him in Middleham Castle and took their advice before publicly coming out in support of the rebellious duke of York. It has been noted that a lord only had to gather a relatively small number of people around in areas where he was strong, as members of his affinity supported not only him but also each other thus, the number of men who could come to his aid was often far greater than the number of men he actually knew. AFFINITY DEFINITION SERIESChristine Carpenter has described the structure of the earl of Warwick's affinity as "a series of concentric circles" with him at the centre. McFarlane wrote, was that the former did the lord "exclusive service" but the latter received his good lordship "in ways both more and less permanent" than the retainers. Middleham Castle was the centre of the earl of Salisbury's Yorkshire affinity.Ĭentral to a noble affinity was the lord's indentured retainers, and beyond them was a more amorphous group of general supporters and contacts. ![]()
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