Gold Seam

Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, 1171–1307

Due for release in late 2025, this born-digital edition will present a full electronic text of Henry Savage Sweetman’s English-language calendar. This will give much wider access to the text through links to modern reference codes in The National Archives (UK).

Introduction

This new Gold Seam will be released soon, but in the meantime scroll down to meet some of the 'Notable Characters' who appear in the records. Curated by Dr John Marshall (TCD), Dr Paul Dryburgh (The National Archives (UK)) with Dr Peter Crooks, Dr Eamonn Kenny, Pallavit Aggarwal and Sadhbh Dunne, VRTI (2025).

Notable Figures featured throughout the Calendar

CDI/1/1216/723
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 1, Item 723 (1216)
"It is the K.'s [King John] will to forget the angry feeling which once existed between the K.'s father and some of the nobles; to uproot evil customs, and by a renewal of liberties to restore the good days of their noble ancestors.2

CDI/1/1216/723
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 1, Item 723 (1216) "It is the K.'s [King John] will to forget the angry feeling which once existed between the K.'s father and some of the nobles; to uproot evil customs, and by a renewal of liberties to restore the good days of their noble ancestors.2

CDI/2/1253/305
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 2, Item 305 (1253)
"The K. to Maurice Fitz Gerald. The King of Castille [Alfonso X], with a large army of Christians and Saracens, is about to enter the K.'s land of Gascony, aspiring thence to invade England and Ireland."

CDI/2/1253/305
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 2, Item 305 (1253) "The K. to Maurice Fitz Gerald. The King of Castille [Alfonso X], with a large army of Christians and Saracens, is about to enter the K.'s land of Gascony, aspiring thence to invade England and Ireland."

CDI/2/1254/411
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 2, Item 411 (1254)
"Mandate [by Prince Edward] to Richard de la Rochelle, [deputy] justiciary in Ireland, to direct his attention to the pacification of Ulster, where some Irishmen have risen against the Lord Edward"

CDI/2/1254/411
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 2, Item 411 (1254) "Mandate [by Prince Edward] to Richard de la Rochelle, [deputy] justiciary in Ireland, to direct his attention to the pacification of Ulster, where some Irishmen have risen against the Lord Edward"

CDI/3/1291/873
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 3, Item 873 (1291)
"Bull of Pope Nicholas [IV.] directed to the Bishop of Meath, and the Dean of the church of Dublin, expressing joy at the contemplated departure of the K. for the Holy Land, and granting to him for 6 years from the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist next ensuing a tenth of ecclesiastical profits in the kingdoms of England and Scotland and in Ireland and Wales."

CDI/3/1291/873
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, Volume 3, Item 873 (1291) "Bull of Pope Nicholas [IV.] directed to the Bishop of Meath, and the Dean of the church of Dublin, expressing joy at the contemplated departure of the K. for the Holy Land, and granting to him for 6 years from the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist next ensuing a tenth of ecclesiastical profits in the kingdoms of England and Scotland and in Ireland and Wales."