Individual Notes

Note for: John Forbes, 1332 - BEF 20 NOV 1446 Index

Alias: With /Forbes/

Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth Kennedy, ABT 1336 - Index

Alias: /Margaret/

Individual Notes

Note for: Robert II Stewart King Of Scotland, 2 MAR 1315/16 - 19 APR 1390 Index

Event:
     Type:   Crowned
     Date:   1371
     Place:   King of Scotland

Event:
     Type:   Reign
     Date:   BET 1371 AND 1390
     Place:   King of Scotland

Individual Notes

Note for: Marjorie Princess Of Scotland, ABT 1297 - 2 MAR 1315/16 Index

Alias: /Margery/

Individual Notes

Note for: John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, MAR 1339/40 - 3 FEB 1398/99 Index

Alias: Duke of /Lancaster/

Individual Notes

Note for: Edward II King Of England, 25 APR 1284 - 21 SEP 1327 Index

Event:
     Type:   Reign
     Date:   BET 1307 AND 1327
     Place:   King of England

Individual Note:
     [Fields.FTW]

Edward II had few of the qualities that made a successful medieval king. Edward surrounded himself with favourites (the best known being a Gascon, Piers Gaveston), and the barons, feeling excluded from power, rebelled. Throughout his reign, different baronial groups struggled to gain power and control the King. The nobles' ordinances of 1311, which attempted to limit royal control of finance and appointments, were counteracted by Edward. Large debts (many inherited) and the Scots' victory at Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce in 1314 made Edward more unpopular. Edward's victory in a civil war (1321-2) and such measures as the 1326 ordinance (a protectionist measure which set up compulsory markets or staples in 14 English, Welsh and Irish towns for the wool trade) did not lead to any compromise between the King and the nobles. Finally, in 1326, Edward's wife, Isabella of France, led an invasion against her husband. In 1327 Edward was made to renounce the throne in favour of his son Edward (the first time that an anointed king of England had been dethroned since Ethelred in 1013). Edward II was later murdered at Berkeley Castle.

Individual Notes

Note for: Isabella , 1292 - 22 AUG 1358 Index

Individual Note:
[Fields.FTW]

In 1326, Isabella led an invasion against her husband.

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Note for: Edward I King Of England, 17 JUN 1239 - 7 JUL 1307 Index

Alias:   "Hammer of the Scots" /Longshanks/

Event:
     Type:   Reign
     Date:   BET 1272 AND 1307
     Place:   King of England

Burial:
     Place:   Westminister Abbey

Individual Note:
     [Fields.FTW]

Edward I, who succeeded his father, was an able administrator and law-maker. He re-established royal power, investigating many of the abuses resulting from weak royal government and issuing new laws. Edward was an effective soldier, gaining experience from going on crusade to Syria before he became king. In 1277 Edward invaded Wales where Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, prince of Wales, had built up considerable power. In a series of campaigns Edward gained control of Wales, building strong castles to secure his conquests. Llewelyn was subdued before his death, by the 1277 treaty of Conway. In 1284, the Statute of Wales brought Wales under Edward's rule. In 1301, he created his eldest surviving son, Edward, the first English Prince of Wales. Wanting to unite the country behind him and to raise money for his campaigns in Wales and Scotland (including another war in France in 1293), in 1295 the king called what became known as the 'Model Parliament'. To this he summoned not only the aristocracy, bishops and abbots, but also the knights of the shires, burgesses from the towns and junior clergy. (Although resembling Parliament in approximately its modern form, for most of the middle ages a parliament meant primarily the king and the lords, with the commons meeting separately. Under pressures of war, and the subsequent need for extraordinary taxation, parliament became a regular feature of royal rule, and this system of representation subsequently became more usual.) In 1296 Edward invaded Scotland, successfully seizing the Stone of Scone; the king John Balliol abdicated and surrendered to Edward. However, a guerrilla war broke out and William Wallace, the Scottish leader, defeated the English at Stirling Bridge in 1297. Wallace was finally captured and executed in 1305. Edward died in 1307, when he was about to start another campaign against the Scots and their leader, Robert the Bruce.

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Note for: Willem III D'Avesnes, ABT 1280 - 7 JUN 1337 Index

Alias: Count of Hainault and /Holland/

Individual Notes

Note for: M, ABT 1274 - Index

Individual Note:
[Fields.FTW]

Mention of "Sicely & Naples"

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Note for: Maguerite Princess Of France, 1279 - 14 FEB 1316/17 Index

Burial:
Place: Grey Friars Church, London, Enlgand

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Note for: Egidia De Burgh, 1263 - Index

Alias: /Giles/