ABSTRACT
Sir John de Wogan continued as Justiciar of Ireland for the five years of the new reign in which one of England's greatest kings was succeeded by one of her worst. His rule indeed was interrupted for one year, June 1308 to July 1309, when Piers Gaveston came over as the King's Lieutenant. 1 This worthless minion of the new King certainly enlivened Dublin for a year with a gay court, but did nothing else that was memorable, and after him Wogan ruled till 1312. 2 His main task was to enlist the Anglo-Irish nobles in the war against Robert Bruce, whom his party had crowned King of Scots at Scone in 1306. These levies were commanded by the Red Earl of Ulster, but he must have felt little enthusiasm for the war, seeing that his daughter Elizabeth had in 1302 married Robert Bruce himself.
