Garth Celyn, Links And Searches

Because I've really been snowed under at work this week and am now ill, here's a silly post of searches that have hit the blog recently, until I get my act together and write a proper post.

But firstly: a couple of my buddies on Facebook have started a campaign to raise money to protect and preserve Garth Celyn in Abergwyngregyn, North Wales - the home of the last Welsh Princes of Wales in the thirteenth century. If you'd like to make a donation, click here. And here's a link to the Facebook page (which I think you can access even if you're not a member of Facebook).

And secondly, a couple of new blogs to tell you about: the genealogist and historian Brad Verity, whom some of you will already know from soc.genealogy.medieval and his articles for the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, not to mention his brilliantly informative and perceptive comments on this blog lately, has set up his own blog called Royal Descent. Yay! Lots of well-researched and fascinating posts to look forward to. And Edward II's brother-in-law Louis X of France (1289-1316) has been reborn online and has his own blog, the excellently-subtitled General Disgruntlings Of An Agitated Monarch. Edward admits to a sneaking fondness for Louis, whom he knighted in June 1313 and who never invaded his duchy of Gascony and declared war on him like certain other brothers-in-law Edward could mention, and is delighted to welcome him to blogland.

- edward the second of england the juicy bits Edward II's life was all about the juicy bits. No dull bits there at all.

- why did Edward ii have such a problematic reign Short answer: because he was exasperating ed

- how many wifes did King Edward II

Just the one, and in 1325 she claimed to her brother Charles IV and his court that quote "there were 3 of us in the marriage"

And people have been asking since 1327: did queen isabela really murder edward II

If she did, you can bet it didn't go in the: queen isabella 1 family ablum

This blog seems to get far more icky searches than strictly necessary, these being typical examples: can any married man have an affair with his niece and suffocated to death under the buttocks of womens sadistic

- edward ii hates foriegn muck He certainly does! Edward II is a proud, patriotic Englishman. (Albeit one who was born in Wales to a Spanish mother and a mostly French father.)

- Edward II didn't like fight as a kid ? Or as an adult.

- why is edwar secong killing on the stage So that directors can make a big deal out of a red-hot poker.

- Where was St. teresa of portugal born If I had to guess, I'd say Portugal.

- Did Isabella of Castile go to college?

- edward iii and his warning signs not to revolt

- proper way of indicating Edward "II" See that man over there? That's Edward II.

- sample letter for claiming illegitimate child

- how scotland was like 700 years ago from 1010

- saint isabella facts that no one else knows

How Edward II didn't attempt to escape from Berkeley Castle: distract guard feminine wiles escape

Which failure to escape led, in traditional accounts, to: THE EDWARD DEATH

Although certainly not by this method: all the way up with a red hot poker

Even if you have to ask: in 1327 king edward 11 was murdered how did it

or: what is the connection between edward 2nd and a redhot poker

or: which king england died from a hot object inserted

The confusion over Edward's fate leads to the inevitable question: edward ii murdered or not

1326 saw the end of the: REIGN OF THE DESPENSER

by means of: pain,penis,hurt,torture,emasculation,bite

In a remarkable change from the usual obsession with Hugh Despenser the Younger's penis, here's: nicholas upton bulls genitals

What to wish a sheep in January: happy bleated new year

- paragraph on king edward the professor Umm, Edward the Confessor, maybe?

- Your as a form of address in Medieval England

- ralph monthermer +excommunicated for adultery

- queen Woodville pics Afraid you have the wrong blog; try Susan Higginbotham's.

- who have killed Lord Gurney

- if you would have his clemency first you must do his bidding

- stephen billington body pics

- robert of artois' rolin in the coronation of Philip VI

And finally, two of the most common searches that hit this blog: connection between Isabella of France and william wallace and did queen isabella have kids with william wallace? How many times do I have to say that there wasn't a connection and no, she didn't? Bloody Braveheart.