Edward II

The close bonds which Edward II's cousin Henry of Lancaster, earl of Lancaster and Leicester, forged with his children have fascinated m...

Unlike later centuries when the monarch spent most of the year in and around London, and went on progresses in the summer when the city got ...

There's an old joke that goes something like "Dear Diary, the Hundred Years War started today." Or imagine a novel written in ...

Here's a post about Edward II's cousin John of Lancaster. Although he was a grandson of Henry III, king of England, a great-grandson...

Elizabeth de Montfort, Lady Montacute and Furnivall (d. 1354), was the mother of William Montacute, earl of Salisbury (1301-44). Here's ...

I recently did a podcast for History Hack about London and Londoners in the first half of the fourteenth century. It's now online; give ...

The latest edition of Mortimer Matters , the journal of the Mortimer History Society, featuring an article by me called 'The Joys of Med...

Hugh Despenser the Younger took possession of the lordship of Glamorgan in South Wales, part of his wife Eleanor de Clare's inheritance ...

I recently wrote a post about Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345), who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter around 1325/30, and his involvement...