Edward II

Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, which belonged to Roger Mortimer.  I'm off on my holidays again, so won't be able to update the bl...

Some of my favourite extracts from letters of Edward II's era... - Hugh Despenser the Younger to Sir John Inge, sheriff of Glamorgan, ...

Almost certainly not, and here's why. The Lanercost chronicler, a monk living in a convent near the Scottish border, claims that in 13...

What some fourteenth-century chroniclers wrote about Hugh Despenser the Younger (c. 1287/90 - 24 November 1326) and his father Hugh the Elde...

According to the Vita Edwardi Secundi , the death of Piers Gaveston on 19 June 1312 was an enormously popular act throughout England: ...

Another post with some fairly random facts about Edward II and his reign. :-) - The Gascon sheriff of Edinburgh and constable of Linlithgo...

A post with some fairly random facts about Edward II and his reign.  :-) - Sometime before October 1311, Edward's first cousin once re...

So, great news - my article 'The Adherents of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, in March 1330' has now been published in the Engli...

Here's a look at what some fourteenth-century chroniclers said about the death of Edward I and the accession of Edward II in July 1307: ...

The chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker, written around 1350, vividly describes the torments supposedly inflicted on the former Edward II as he w...