John de Homme was knighted by Edward I as a hero of the Battle of Evesham (Med. Eng. Eveshomme). With king’s blessing, he founded the Carpenter dynasty of Merchant Princes.
Richard Carpenter defined the role of the English merchant bank and helped create, with Richard Whittington, financial markets for trading debt instruments.
Master John Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester, ended this Lancastrian saga in glorious partnership with his childhood friend, William Canynges, the shipping magnate.
Most medieval studies are very fact oriented. These studies tend to ascribe, or at least lean, to the principal that if a fact cannot be proven completely, it is not proven at all...
