Edward II

On Saturday 7 October, the Mortimer History Society is holding its annual symposium at Ludlow in Shropshire, and this year I'm one of t...

Today marks the 672nd anniversary of the death of Henry, earl of Lancaster and Leicester and steward of England, on 22 September 1345. Via ...

The tenth edition of the excellent series Fourteenth Century England *, a collection of academic essays which comes out every two years, wi...

Sir Robert Holland or de Holand was a knight of Upholland, Lancashire, born sometime around 1280. He was the steward of Edward II's fir...

I've written before about the deeply unpleasant tale invented in the late 1970s that Edward II cruelly removed his wife Isabella's ...

With the exception of royal children, whose dates of birth were usually, though not invariably, recorded - we don't know exactly when E...

As I wrote recently , Edward II had six chamber vadletz/portours who slept inside his bedchamber, perhaps not every night (I assume they l...

In Edward II's chamber account of 1324/25, there are a few references to a house in London which he had recently bought or leased and w...

Hundreds of Edward of Caernarfon's letters from the year 1304/05 fortuitously survive, as they do not for any other year before his acc...

I'm offering a free, signed hardback copy of my new book   Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II ! All you have to do to...