Edward II (1284-1327)

[CyrilVladisla]

Fleet of sailing vessels employed to carry Isabella from France to England to wed Edward II
http://www.maryevans.com/history/Isabella-to-wed-Edward-II-10038115

 

[CyrilVladisla]

King Edward II and Queen Isabella arrived on a state visit to France at the end of May 1313, traveling with the earls of Pembroke and Richmond and other loyalists.
They had been invited to France to enjoy the honor of witnessing Edward's father-in-law King Philip IV of France knight nearly two hundred young men. These men included King Philip's sons Louis king of Navarre, Philip, and Charles.

 

[An Ard Ri]

King Edward II and Queen Isabella arrived on a state visit to France at the end of May 1313, traveling with the earls of Pembroke and Richmond and other loyalists.
They had been invited to France to enjoy the honor of witnessing Edward's father-in-law King Philip IV of France knight nearly two hundred young men. These men included King Philip's sons Louis king of Navarre, Philip, and Charles.

Prior to the King and Queen's departure ,the King appointed his nephew the Earl of Gloucester in England as Regent.The king and queen entered Paris on the 2nd of June and a banquet was held at St-Germain-des-Prés near Paris.
Present were King Edward and Queen Margaret,Louis of Navarre and Marguerite, queen of Navarre,The Counts of Artois,Valois and Evreux.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

In 1314 King Edward II turned away from Stirling Castle after losing the Battle of Bannockburn.
http://www.maryevans.com/history/13465321

 

[CyrilVladisla]

King Edward II and Piers Gaveston filled their empty coffers at the plunder of York in 1311.

Edward II and Piers Gaveston fill their empty coffers at the plunder of York, 1311

Edward II and Piers Gaveston fill their empty coffers at the plunder of York, 1311. Postcard, early 20th century.

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[An Ard Ri]

King Edward II and Piers Gaveston filled their empty coffers at the plunder of York in 1311.

Edward II and Piers Gaveston fill their empty coffers at the plunder of York, 1311

Edward II and Piers Gaveston fill their empty coffers at the plunder of York, 1311. Postcard, early 20th century.

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Why did the king and Piers plunder York in 1311?

 

[Maryrose]

The biography of Queen Isabella by Alison Weir and The Greatest Traitor the life of Roger Mortimer by Ian Mortimer are excellent reads.

 

[An Ard Ri]

The arrest of Roger Mortimer in October 1330.

 

[Maryrose]

He was walled up in a cell til his trial where he was bound and gagged and couldn't speak in his defense. Found guilty [of course]. He was dragged by horses to the place where he was hung naked. He wasn't beheaded like how it was done for noblemen at the time. Mortimer never confessed to being a part of the King's death.

 

[An Ard Ri]

He was walled up in a cell til his trial where he was bound and gagged and couldn't speak in his defense. Found guilty [of course]. He was dragged by horses to the place where he was hung naked. He wasn't beheaded like how it was done for noblemen at the time. Mortimer never confessed to being a part of the King's death.

His widow,Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville was imprisoned but later released and had some of her lands and titles restored.
Joan died in 1356 and was buried at the Mortimer chapel at Wigmore Abbey.
The abbey survived until the Dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530's.