henry

At the heart was his domestic household, referred to as the domus a wider grouping was termed the familia regis, and formal gatherings of the court were termed curia. The chapel, headed by the chancellor, looked after the royal documents, the chamber dealt with financial affairs and the master-marshal was accountable for travel and accommodation. The familia regis incorporated Henry’s mounted household troops, up to various hundred powerful, who came from a wider range of social backgrounds, and could be deployed across England and Normandy as necessary. As we saw in relation to Strange’s Men, Shakespeare’s early history plays look...