Edward II

Books of mine to be published next year: John of Gaunt: Son of One King, Father of Another , is finally due for publication in January 2022,...

Sir John Felton of Litcham in Norfolk was the son and heir of Sir Robert Felton, constable of the English-held Lochmaben Castle in Scotland ...

Elizabeth de Burgh née de Clare was born on 16 September 1295 as the fourth and youngest child, and third daughter, of Edward I's daught...

Isabel of Castile was born sometime in the year 1355 in Tordesillas in central Spain, probably in the royal monastery of Santa Clara, where ...

A post about a curious and little-known event which took place late in Edward II's reign: the king's attacks on the French duchy of ...

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...