maugre

In this manner ye are welcome, that ye come hither maugre thy head, as I suppose.

Then Sir Launcelot by great force and might gat his own horse maugre twenty knights.

So those three knights loved their sister so sore that they brent in love, and so they lay by her, maugre her head.

And else, said Sir Gawaine, wit thou well thou shouldst not have come here, but if it were maugre thy head.

We are likely to be on good terms with England, maugre the best exertions of some of our politicians.