Edward II

Here's the second part of my post about Roger Damory, Edward II's greatest court favourite between 1315 and 1319 or thereabouts (the...

Part one of a post about Roger Damory, the most prominent of Edward II's court favourites between about 1315 and 1319, who wielded influ...

I wrote in the last post about the eventful parliament of January/February 1316, and more problems beset Edward II when he heard news of an...

Whoever said political history was dull, eh? It's almost the 694th anniversary of Edward II's eventful parliament at Lincoln, which ...

Happy belated 2010, and hope you all had a great Christmas! This is a quick post till I get round to writing the next proper one - after a l...

This is my last blog post for three weeks or so, as I'm off on a lovely long Christmas holiday (yay!) and will be offline for ages. Here...

In the last post , I talked about the start of Edward II's campaign against the Contrariants in late 1321. This post takes up the story....

I woke up this morning thinking that there seemed to be something special about today's date, but was unable to remember what it was; so...

This post is a continuation of the one directly below (or here ), and takes up the story of Edward II's actions in the autumn of 1321 wh...