Edward II

In the nineteenth century, Agnes Strickland in her Lives of the Queens of England made up a story that Edward II and Isabella of France...

Isabel of Aragon was the paternal grandmother of Edward II's queen Isabella of France, who was presumably named after her. Today is the ...

So there's Philip V, king of France, and his wife Joan of Burgundy, and his first cousin Philip VI, king of France, and his wife Joan o...

This is a post about a dramatic incident which took place in the summer of 1313, during Edward II and Queen Isabella's long visit to he...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful festive season. Today, 7 January, marks the anniversary of the start of the parliament hel...

A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all my readers! The blog will be on a break until 6 January 2016 or shortly afterwards.

I'm delighted to announce that my second book Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen is now available for pre-order! It will be published ...

Probably in the late 1330s, a papal notary named Manuele Fieschi, who was appointed bishop of Vercelli in 1343, wrote a letter to Edward III...

Unbelievably, the Edward II blog is now exactly ten years old! Yes, I wrote my first post here on 3 December 2005. Ten years, 627 posts and ...

Today is the 657th anniversary of the funeral of Edward II's widow Isabella of France, queen of England, on 27 November 1358.  Isabella ...