Edward II

In birth order, here's a list of Edward II's fourteen grandchildren, the seven sons and five daughters of his son Edward III (1312-7...

My new book about Edward II's sisters is out now in the UK! Astonishingly, Edward II might have had as many as eleven older sisters and...

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to update the Edward II blog for a few weeks, because my mother was taken seriously ill and was hospi...

In the first part of this post , I looked at the way that Hugh Despenser the Younger, though Edward II's nephew-in-law from May 1306 onw...

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...