Edward II

There is evidence that Edward II thoroughly enjoyed swimming: in February 1303, for example, when he wasn't yet nineteen and was prince...

A quick post about Edward II's first cousins Thomas and Henry, brothers of the house of Lancaster. Thomas and Henry were the sons of ...

This letter was written in French during the period when Edward I had temporarily banished his twenty-one-year-old son and heir from court,...

 I've written plenty before about the Dunheved brothers Thomas and Stephen, leaders of the group who temporarily freed Edward of Caerna...

From Edward II's household accounts, here are people's nicknames I've found from the early fourteenth century: Ibote, Isode a...

I've posted before that Edward II enjoyed the company of fishermen along the Thames and often chatted to them and spent time with them ...

My third book Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II is published today in the UK, yippee! I take a look at all the evidence...

This coming Saturday I'm giving a study day about Edward II at the Wuffing Education Centre at Sutton Hoo - please do come! Details her...

Edward II sent his queen Isabella of France to her homeland on 9 March 1325 in order to negotiate peace with her brother Charles IV, with w...

As I mentioned recently, the word 'valet(s)' which was so often used in the fourteenth century is rather difficult to translate; it...