Edward II

 Today's post is about the five biographies of Edward II published in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and lists other non-fict...

Just a quick post today about two letters sent by Edward II. The first dates perhaps to late 1311, shortly after Piers Gaveston was sent i...

I was looking recently at the Ordinances, a list of forty-one reforms of the king's household and of the kingdom in general, which were ...

 A few interesting entries I found in the Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous from when Edward of Caernarfon was a boy.  I wrote a simila...

14 January marks the anniversary of an extremely important letter written by William Melton, archbishop of York, almost certainly in 1330 (t...

Some years ago, I wrote a post translating the charges against Hugh Despenser the Younger at his trial in Hereford in November 1326.  One o...

Apologies for not updating the blog more regularly! What with visits, work, illness and preparing for Christmas, I just haven't had tim...

Edited to add: I've just remembered that this is the sixth anniversary of my blog!  Yippee!  Six years of Edward II - and here's to ...

27 November 1358: Isabella of France, dowager queen of England, was buried at the Greyfriars Church in London, with all due ceremony and in...

Today, a post about Simon of Reading, or Symond or Syme de Reding or Redyngg or Redynges as the name was spelt at the time, who was executed...