Edward II

A post about Piers Gaveston's jousting tournament held at Wallingford on 2 December 1307, with thanks to my friend MRats for the suggest...

Part one of a two-part post about two of Hugh Despenser the Younger's sisters, Aline (or Alina), Lady Burnell and Isabel(la), Lady Hasti...

In which I trawl through the internet to see what's been said about Edward II lately, good and bad... Jules' fantastic blog about ...

Edward II-related things which happened in January. 1 January 1317: Pope John XXII wrote to both Edward II and Robert Bruce to confirm a ...

Recently I was reading through the Polychronicon , a chronicle written around 1350 by Ranulph or Ralph Higden, a monk of Chester.  It has th...

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...