PLANTAGENETS:

Edward the Second, 1307 to 1327

BORN: 25 April 1284, Caernarvon Castle, North Wales.
PARENTS: Edward I (1239 - 1307),
Eleanor of Castile (c. 1244 - 90).
MARRIED: Isabelle "the Fair" of France, (1292 - 1358)
25 January 1308, Boulogne Cathedral, France.
ACCEDED: 8 July 1307
CROWNED: 25 February 1308, Westminster Abbey.
(deposed: 25 January 1327)
DIED: 21 September 1327,
Berkley Castle, Gloucestershire.
INTERRED: Gloucester Cathedral.

CHILDREN: (1) Edward III (1312 - 77)
(2) John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316 - 36)
(3) Eleanor of Woodstock (1318 - 55)
(4) Joanna of the Tower (1321 - 62)
(5) Adam (c. 1310 - 22)

COEVAL
PERSONS:
Scottish Crown:
Robert I the Bruce

Allies:
Piers Gaveston
Hugh de Spencer the Elder
Hugh de Spencer the Younger

Opponent:
Roger Mortimer

Archbishops of Canterbury:
Robert Winchelsey
Thomas Cobham
Walter Reynolds

Popes:
Clement V
John XXII

NOTABLE
EVENTS:
Battle of Bannockburn, 23-4 June 1314.


Drawing of Edward the Second