Edward II

Richard, earl of Arundel - often called Richard Fitzalan by modern writers, though he himself did not use that name - was the son and heir ...

My next published book will be my biography of Edward II's mighty chamberlain and favourite, Hugh Despenser the Younger, lord of Glamor...

One of the funniest (to my mind, anyway) things about Edward II's chamber accounts and other documents of the era is that his clerks tr...

I'm delighted to announce that I have an article in the tenth edition of the biennial peer-reviewed academic essay collection Fourteen...

A couple of nice entries I've come across in Edward II's chamber account of 1324/25. When Edward II was in Sussex in late August ...

Edward II had a personal bodyguard,  garde corps le Roi,  of eight archers on foot, who in July 1326 were said in Edward's chamber acco...

I wrote two posts a while ago about Edward II's friend Sir William Montacute of Somerset, who was one of the 266 young men knighted wi...

I've been doing some more research in an attempt to ascertain, as far as possible, the exact whereabouts of Edward II and his queen Isa...

I recently saw a book published in 2017 which claimed that Edward II arranged the marriage of his eldest niece Eleanor de Clare and Hugh De...

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