Edward II

In this post, I'm looking at some of the men who were the earl of Kent's co-conspirators to free his half-brother Edward II from Cor...

Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, was beheaded in Winchester on 19 March 1330 for the crime of trying to free his half-brother Edward II fr...

Just a quick post till the next proper one...link from Gabriele at The Lost Fort . Never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet, and her...

In my last post, I looked at an occasion when Edward II is often slammed for supposedly abandoning his pregnant and distraught queen because...

There's one scene which appears to be obligatory in Edward II novels ( Susan Higginbotham's The Traitor's Wife thankfully bein...

...to Piers Gaveston and Margaret de Clare, who married on 1 November 1307, All Saints Day, at Berkhamsted Castle. Edward II was present, o...

In this post, I'm looking at rather obscure, non-English noblewomen, who married English husbands and lived in England during Edward II...

This post was inspired by a PM I received from blog commenter Paul. Cheers, Paul! :) I searched the Patent Rolls for entries that fell on ...

Ludlow Castle, Shropshire Ludlow Castle was built (or rather, begun to be built) by Walter de Lacy in 1086. Later, it passed from the Lacys ...

Continuing my series on women of Edward II's reign, here's a post on his niece Elizabeth de Clare, founder of Clare College, Cambrid...