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Personal data King Edward II Plantagenet 

• He was born on April 25, 1284 in Caemarfon Castle, Gwynedd, England.
• He died on September 21, 1327 in Berkley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, he was 43 years old.
• He is buried in Gloucester Cathedral.
• A child of King Edward I "Longshanks" Plantagenet and Eleanor de Castille
• This information was last updated on December 11, 2016.

Household of King Edward II Plantagenet

He is married to Isabella of France.

They got married on January 25, 1308 at Boulogne, France, he was 23 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Edward III Plantagenet King of England  1312-1377 
2. Earl of Cornwall John of Eltham  1316-????
3. Eleanor of England  1318-????
4. Joan of the Tower of England  1321-????

Notes about King Edward II Plantagenet

4th son. Became heir at a few months of age.King from 1307-1327. First to hold the title Prince of Wales. Abdicated 24/01/1327Interspersed between the strong reigns of his father Edward I and son Edward III, the reign of Edward II was disastrous for England, marked by incompetence, political squabbling, and military defeats. Although large in stature and powerfully built, he was more interested in light entertainment and simple pleasures than in the duties of governing. Preferred boating and craftwork, the first King that was not "a man of business"Widely supposed to be homosexual, he was unable to deny even the most grandiose favours to his male favourites (first a Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston, later a young English lord named Hugh Despenser) which led to constant political unrest and his eventual deposition.Whereas Edward I had conquered all of Wales and the Scottish lowlands, and ruled them with an iron hand, the army of Edward II was devastatingly defeated at Bannockburn, freeing Scotland from English control and allowing Scottish forces to raid unchecked throughout the north of England.In addition to these disasters, Edward II is remembered for his mysterious death in Berkeley Castle, apparently by murder, and more positively for being the first monarch to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.On the night of 11 October while lying in on a bed [the king] was suddenly seized and, while a great mattress... weighed him down and suffocated him, a plumber's iron, heated intensely hot, was introduced through a tube into his anus so that it burned the inner portions beyond the intestines

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