Edward II

It occurred to me recently how many of the English earls of Edward II's era had a non-English mother, and in a couple of cases, a non-En...

It says so much about Edward II's turbulent reign that for centuries after William the Conqueror put the rebellious Waltheof to death in...

The fascinating story of a thirteenth-century noblewoman who left her husband and moved in with her lover, with, amazingly enough, her husba...

I'm not sure I've ever written a post about Edward II's relationship with Hugh Despenser the Younger, or at least not for a very...

The first part of the post is here .  Eleanor Despenser appears in Queen Isabella's extant accounts of 1311/12, when she attended the qu...

Edward II and his eldest niece Eleanor Despenser née de Clare were always close and often spent time together, but in the last couple of yea...

Recently it was the anniversary of John of Gaunt's birth on 6 March 1340. John, the fourth but third eldest surviving son* of Edward III...

Laurence Hastings, earl of Pembroke, was born in Allesley, Warwickshire either on 20 March 1320 or 20 March 1321. His proof of age says that...

Part one ; part two ; part three . Here are some examples of the accounts of Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer's relationship that a...