Following in the Footsteps of Edward II

Following in the Footsteps of Edward II
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Publisher : Pen and Sword
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9781526732941
ISBN-13 : 1526732947
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Book Synopsis Following in the Footsteps of Edward II by : Kathryn Warner

Download or read book Following in the Footsteps of Edward II written by Kathryn Warner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Informed and informative . . . a meticulous example of outstanding scholarship, and an inherently fascinating read.” —Midwest Book Review Edward II is famously one of England’s most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his warlike father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English king to suffer the fate of deposition. Highly unconventional, even eccentric, he was an intriguing personality, and his reign of nineteen and a half years, from 1307 to 1327, was a turbulent period of endless conflict and the king’s infatuation with his male favorites, which ended when his own queen led an invasion of his kingdom. Following in the Footsteps of Edward II presents a new take on this most unconventional and puzzling of kings, from the magnificent Caernarfon Castle where he was born in 1284 shortly after his father conquered North Wales, to his favorite residences at King’s Langley in Hertfordshire and Westminster, to the castle of Berkeley in Gloucestershire where he supposedly met his brutal death in September 1327, to Gloucester Cathedral, where his tomb and alabaster effigy still exist and are among the greatest glories surviving from medieval England.

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