Edward II

When Edward II's twenty-three-year-old nephew Gilbert de Clare , earl of Gloucester and Hertford, was killed at the battle of Bannockbur...

A post about the children of Edward II's siblings Eleanor, countess of Bar ; Joan of Acre, countess of Gloucester ; Margaret, duchess o...

Today I'm looking at Edward II's uncle by marriage, Charles, count of Valois, Alençon, Perche, Chartres, Anjou and Maine, ancestor o...

My lovely friend Kasia has been running a blog about Henry the Young King (1155-1183), son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, for a year ...

This is the 500th post on the Edward II blog!  Yay to me and Edward!  :-) Today is 1 November, the feast of All Saints, which is quite an ...

To clarify right from the start, I don't know when Edward II's half-brother Thomas of Brotherton, earl of Norfolk, got married, ...

I've decided to update this old post a little as I still sometimes see people online claiming that Edward II was some kind of feeble co...

Here's a list of novels about Edward II and Isabella of France, and my (entirely subjective, of course) opinions of them.  See also the ...

A hotch-potch of a post which in some ways continues from my recent one about Edward II and Isabella of France's relationship, and an o...

As I expected and predicted, Twitter, Facebook and numerous other online sites are full of posts today marking the anniversary of the allege...