Edward II

A detailed look at Edward II's movements and activities this month 686 years ago, a year before the beginning of the revolution which wa...

Courtesy of the History Police group on Facebook, one of whose members came up with the idea, a fancy official badge for Edward II's gr...

More interesting stuff about Edward II, his reign and his family.  :-) - Edward's grandfather King Fernando III of Castile and Leon c...

Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, which belonged to Roger Mortimer.  I'm off on my holidays again, so won't be able to update the bl...

Some of my favourite extracts from letters of Edward II's era... - Hugh Despenser the Younger to Sir John Inge, sheriff of Glamorgan, ...

Almost certainly not, and here's why. The Lanercost chronicler, a monk living in a convent near the Scottish border, claims that in 13...

What some fourteenth-century chroniclers wrote about Hugh Despenser the Younger (c. 1287/90 - 24 November 1326) and his father Hugh the Elde...

According to the Vita Edwardi Secundi , the death of Piers Gaveston on 19 June 1312 was an enormously popular act throughout England: ...

Another post with some fairly random facts about Edward II and his reign. :-) - The Gascon sheriff of Edinburgh and constable of Linlithgo...

A post with some fairly random facts about Edward II and his reign.  :-) - Sometime before October 1311, Edward's first cousin once re...