Edward II

Edward II was at least the fourteenth and perhaps the sixteenth child of Edward I, who was almost forty-five at the time of his son's bi...

In which I speculate, maybe wildly and hilariously wrongly, about the identity of the mother of a canon of Lincoln whose father was a really...

Today marks the 682nd anniversary of Edward III's arrest of Roger Mortimer, earl of March and the real ruler of England for the previous...

Only a quick post today, I'm afraid, as I've just come back from holiday and haven't had time to write a proper one yet. My fr...

This will be the last post until mid-October or thereabouts, as I'm on holiday.  ;-)  1 October 1310: Edward II bestowed two more appo...

Shortly before Edward II and Hugh Despenser the Younger were captured in South Wales on 16 November 1326 following Roger Mortimer and Isabel...

Today is the anniversary of Edward II's supposed murder at Berkeley Castle.  Edward's biographer Seymour Phillips, and indeed most o...

On 19 January 1326 a man was stabbed to death at Rearsby in Leicestershire, and a very important man he was too: Sir Roger Belers, chief bar...

1 September 1317: Attack by Sir Gilbert Middleton on two cardinals visiting England, Gaucelin D'Eauze and Luca Fieschi, the latter a ki...

I did a genealogical post recently about Henry of Lancaster's grandchildren which seemed to go down rather well, and here's one abo...