Edward II

I've written plenty of Christmas posts in previous years: see here , here ,  here , here ,  here  and here .  Unbelievably, this is the ...

This is a continuation of my earlier post  detailing Edward II's foundation of two Oxbridge colleges: King's Hall at Cambridge Unive...

Have just realised that I missed the eighth anniversary of the blog two days ago!  Yes, I began the Edward II blog on 3 December 2005, and t...

When Edward II's twenty-three-year-old nephew Gilbert de Clare , earl of Gloucester and Hertford, was killed at the battle of Bannockbur...

A post about the children of Edward II's siblings Eleanor, countess of Bar ; Joan of Acre, countess of Gloucester ; Margaret, duchess o...

Today I'm looking at Edward II's uncle by marriage, Charles, count of Valois, Alençon, Perche, Chartres, Anjou and Maine, ancestor o...

My lovely friend Kasia has been running a blog about Henry the Young King (1155-1183), son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, for a year ...

This is the 500th post on the Edward II blog!  Yay to me and Edward!  :-) Today is 1 November, the feast of All Saints, which is quite an ...

To clarify right from the start, I don't know when Edward II's half-brother Thomas of Brotherton, earl of Norfolk, got married, ...

I've decided to update this old post a little as I still sometimes see people online claiming that Edward II was some kind of feeble co...