ABSTRACT
In the absence of significant documentary discoveries, it is unlikely that there will ever be much new to be said on the subject of Boniface VIII's arbitration of the conflicting claims to Gascony of Edward I of England and Philip IV of France in June 1298. Walter of Guisborough seems to have completed his chronicle in or soon after the first decade of the fourteenth century. A canon of the Augustinian house in Cleveland by whose name he is known, he is perhaps less highly rated by English historians than in the mid-nineteenth century when his editor praised him as 'remarkable for a judicious taste, a moderation of mind, and clearness of perception'. Archbishop of Toledo from 1280 until 1298, Gonzalo Perez 'Gudiel' had died as cardinal bishop of Albano in November 1299. Bearing in mind the transformation in European affairs that occurred between 1298 and 1307, and the troubled affairs of the kingdom of Castile in particular, perhaps not.
