Edward II

I'm off on my holidays tomorrow, so this will be the last post till 6 January or thereabouts. Taking a lead out of Susan and Sarah'...

More on the men who helped the earl of Kent in his conspiracy to free Edward II in 1329/30. Sir John Pecche Only Ian Mortimer has drawn att...

More on the earl of Kent's 1330 conspiracy, and the people who helped him. Kent's confession was read out to Parliament on 16 March ...

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...