Edward II

This will be my last post until 3 June or thereabouts, as I'm off on my holidays - home to the Lake District, where it's currently a...

Berwick-upon-Tweed is a port in the north-east of England which changed hands between England and Scotland over a dozen times in the Middle ...

I've seen plenty of books published recently which still perpetuate myths about Hugh Despenser the Younger: that Edward II arranged his ...

First news: I've decided to set up another website about Edward II, because I'm sick to death of all the inaccurate, uninformed and ...

John Daniel and Robert de Micheldever were executed with the earl of Arundel in Hereford on 17 November 1326, without a trial, a few weeks a...

Henry, Lord Beaumont was a French nobleman who played an important role in Edward II's reign and in the early years of Edward III's....

Happy 725th birthday to Edward II today! I read a blog recently which noted Edward's date of birth, then asked 'I wonder what he...

This is my translation of the charges against Hugh Despenser the Younger at his trial in Hereford on 24 November 1326, which are printed in ...

In September 1325, Edward II sent his twelve-year-old son Edward of Windsor, earl of Chester and now duke of Aquitaine and count of Ponthieu...