Edward II

The blog will take a break while I'm on my holidays....back on or around 7 January. Before I go, just a few words on Edward II's Chr...

Edward II was born on 25 April 1284 in Caernarfon Castle , one of his father’s great Welsh fortresses, unfinished at this time. His mother E...

Beginning an occasional new feature, in which I look at some of the women of Edward II's reign. Today, Edward's niece, Eleanor de Cl...

'Edward II' is one year old today. Yay! This post is about Edward II's betrothals before Isabella; the women he might have marr...

Roger Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore and first earl of March, 25 April 1287 to 29 November 1330. He was the second cousin twice removed of Edward...

Hugh le Despenser the Younger, Lord of Glamorgan, royal chamberlain, royal favourite, politician, pirate and extortionist, circa 1287/90 to ...

In the summer of 1327, the Dunheved brothers and their gang continued their efforts to free Edward from captivity. He was now at Berkeley, a...

In November 1326, King Edward II - by then, no more than a fugitive in his own country - was captured in South Wales with the younger Hugh D...

Published by Robert Hale in 1975, 205 pages. It's currently available from Amazon UK for the princely sum of 1p! Most unusually for an E...

This is the tomb of Hugh le Despenser the younger, buried in Tewkesbury Abbey in late 1330 or early 1331, after the five parts of his body h...