Edward II

A couple of nice entries I've come across in Edward II's chamber account of 1324/25. When Edward II was in Sussex in late August ...

Edward II had a personal bodyguard,  garde corps le Roi,  of eight archers on foot, who in July 1326 were said in Edward's chamber acco...

I wrote two posts a while ago about Edward II's friend Sir William Montacute of Somerset, who was one of the 266 young men knighted wi...

I've been doing some more research in an attempt to ascertain, as far as possible, the exact whereabouts of Edward II and his queen Isa...

I recently saw a book published in 2017 which claimed that Edward II arranged the marriage of his eldest niece Eleanor de Clare and Hugh De...

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I've written before  (and here  and here ) about the men who served in Edward II's chamber, who are referred to in his chamber acco...

I've posted here before, and written in my biography of Edward II, some lovely details which reveal that the king's sense of humour...

691 years ago on 24 November 1326, Hugh Despenser the Younger, lord of Glamorgan, was executed in Hereford on the orders of Edward II's...