Edward II

Photos of various places in Lincolnshire and Rutland: Oakham Castle, Essendine, Kettlethorpe,  Stow Minster,  Temple Bruer,  Somerton Cas...

Joan Martin was one of the three children of William, Lord Martin, a landowner in the West Country and South Wales who was born c. 1257 and...

Sad, though not entirely surprising, to see Wikipedia repeat this annoying myth.  See here and here . The source for this statement...

A post about a woman whose existence I've only very recently discovered and who fascinates me! She lived so long that when she died, he...

Men of Edward II's era wore their hair long, at least to chin level and often to the shoulders, parted in the middle and falling either...

My latest book, Following in the Footsteps of Edward II , is out now in the UK. It's a guide to Edward II and his reign via the places ...

Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire was established in the twelfth century by local monk St Gilbert of Sempringham, founder of the Gilbertin...

Edward II knew two brothers, Alan and Martin Palmer, pretty well: both men worked as shipwrights next to the Tower of London, and often app...

Edward II, while being a disastrous ruler and even more disastrous war leader  par extraordinaire , did have some much more appealing chara...

Three weeks ago on Saturday 18 May 2019, I gave a talk about Hugh Despenser the Younger at the annual Mortimer History Society conference i...