 1284 - 1327 (43 years)
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| Name |
Edward Plantagenet [1] |
| Title |
King of England |
| Suffix |
King of England II |
| Birth |
25 Apr 1284 |
Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
21 Sep 1327 |
Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England [1] |
| Burial |
St Peter's Abbey, Gloucestershire, England |
| Person ID |
I8532 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Northumberland, England (Age 68 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu, b. 1241, Burgos, Castile, Spain d. 24 Nov 1290, Harby, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 49 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
18 Oct 1254 |
- Abbey of las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile
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| Family ID |
F3170 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Isabella Capet, b. 17 Mar 1292, Paris, Île-De-France, France d. 23 Aug 1358, Castle Rising, Norfolk, England (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Jan 1308 |
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
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| Children |
| | 1. Edward Plantagenet, King of England III, b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England d. 21 Jun 1377, Shene Palace On-The-Thames, Richmond, Surrey, England (Age 64 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Earl of Cornwall John Plantagenet, b. 1316, Eltham, London, England d. 13 Sep 1336, Perth, England (Age 20 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Isabella Plantagenet, b. Abt 1324, Woodstock, Kent, England [natural] |
| | 4. Joanna Plantagenet, b. 1321, London, London, England d. 7 Sep 1362, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England (Age 41 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F3354 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- http://members.tripod.com/~midgley/edward2.html Edward was the first Prince of Wales. The Welsh after their defeat, complained that they wanted a prince who could speak Welsh. Edward I promised them that he would invest one "who could speak no other".... indeed Edward II was but a child who could not yet speak. This apparently remains a sore point between the English and Welsh even today. As a youth, Edward was extravagant and incompetent and kept unsavoury friends, he was probably homosocial. He was considered a weak king, liking athletic sports, like rowing as well as theatricals and manual crafts. Crowned on the 25th February 1308, Edward as a result of his perceived unsavoury lifestyle, the 'Lords Ordainers', a committeee of 21 led by Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lincoln, was established and drew up 41 articles known as the Ordinances of 1311 to try to control the king. By April 1308 parliament had met and forced Edward to agree to their wishes. Gaveston was sent to Ireland, Edward seeing him off at Bristol. Gaveston had been made a ward of Roger Mortimer in 1303 during the Welsh Wars, Gaveston's father having been a close compatriot of Edward I. Mortimer would have been all too aware of Gaveston's wayward influence on Edward. Edward became unpopular with the barons and in 1310 the aristocracy revolted against him. In 1309 Edward agreed to reforms but managed to achieve the return of Gaveston. Defeated by Robert de Bruce at Bannockburn in 1314 Edward placed England under baronial control.
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| Sources |
- [S4] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
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