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• Hij is geboren op 25 april 1284 in Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales.
• Titel: King of England
• Beroep: King of England.
• Hij is overleden op 21 september 1327 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, hij was toen 43 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 20 december 1327 in Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire, England.
• Een kind van Edward I Plantagenet en Eleanor Castille

Gezin van Edward II Plantagenet

Hij is getrouwd met Isabella de Capet.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Adam Plantagenet  1310-1322
2. Edward Plantagenet  1312-1377
3. Prince John of England (Plantagenet)  1316-1336
4. Eleonora Plantagenet  1318-1355 

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Event: Succeeded 8 JUL 1307 and crowned February 24/24, 1308 as the 31st King of England at Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, EnglandEvent: Also Succeeded as Comté de Ponthieu and Montreuil, N

ovember 28, 1290, became the 1st English Prince of Wales, 1301 and created Duke of Aquitaine, May 1306.Note:

Edward II Plantagenet of Caernarvon reigned as King of England from 1307 to 1327

when he was deposed and murdered. He acceded as the frist English Prince of Wales in 1301 and to the English throne on February 24, 1308 at Westminster Abbey in London. His reign was troubled by extra

vagances, his militarist disasters in Scotland, most notably at Bannockburn in 1314, and his unpopularity of his favorite peers - Gaveston who died in 1312 and Hugh le Despencer (1262-1326). He was de

posed as King on January 21, 1327. and murdered with a hot poker in his bowels. ____________________________________ Edward II lacked the royal dignity of his father and failed miserably as king

. He inherited his father's war with Scotland and displayed his ineptitude as a soldier. Disgruntled barons, already wary of Edward as Prince of Wales, sought to check his power from the beginning of

his reign. He raised the ire of the nobility by lavishing money and other rewards upon his male favorites. Such extreme unpopularity would eventually cost Edward his life.

Edward I's dream o

f a unified British nation quickly disintegrated under his weak son. Baronial rebellion opened the way for Robert Bruce to reconquer much of Scotland. In 1314, Bruce defeated English forces at the bat

tle of Bannockburn and ensured Scottish independence until the union of England and Scotland in 1707. Bruce also incited rebellion in Ireland and reduced English influence to the confines of the Pale.

Edward's preference for surrounding himself with outsiders harkened back to the troubled reign of Henry III. The most notable was Piers Gaveston, a young Gascon exiled by Edward I for his u

ndue influence on the Prince of Wales and, most likely, the king's homosexual lover. The arrogant and licentious Gaveston wielded considerable power after being recalled by Edward. The magnates, alien

ated by the relationship, rallied in opposition behind the king's cousin, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster; the Parliaments of 1310 and 1311 imposed restrictions on Edward's power and exiled Gaveston. The ba

rons revolted in 1312 and Gaveston was murdered - full rebellion was avoided only by Edward's acceptance of further restrictions. Although Lancaster shared the responsibilities of governing with Edwar

d, the king came under the influence of yet another despicable favorite, Hugh Dispenser. In 1322, Edward showed a rare display of resolve and gathered an army to meet Lancaster at the Battle of Boroug

hbridge in Yorkshire. Edward prevailed and executed Lancaster. He and Dispenser ruled the government but again acquired many enemies - 28 knightsand barons were executed for rebelling and many exiled

.

Edward sent his queen, Isabella, to negotiate with her brother, French king Charles IV, regarding affairs in Gascony. She fell into an open romance with Roger Mortimer, one of Edward's dis

affected barons, and persuaded Edward to send their young son to France. The rebellious couple invaded England in 1326 and imprisoned Edward. The king was deposed in 1327, replaced by his son, Edward

III, and murdered in September at Berkeley castle.

Sir Richard Baker, in reference to Edward I in A Chronicle of the Kings of England, makes a strong indictment against Edward II: "His great

unfortunateness was in his greatest blessing; for of four sons which he had by his Queen Eleanor, three of them died in his own lifetime, who were worthy to have outlived him; and the fourth outlived

him, who was worthy never to have been born."

from Britannia.com ©2000 Britannia.com, LLC @http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon31.html _______________ Prince of Wales -1301

from: Kings and Queens of England & Scotland, by Plantagement Somerset Fry (New York: DK Publishing, Inc. 1999), pp. 28:

In 1284 Edward I was in Wales following hissuccessful conquest of th

e country. His wife, Eleanor, gave birth to a son and heir, Edward, while they were staying at Caernarfon. There has long been a tradition that Edward held up his baby son at a gathering of Welsh nobl

es and said: "Here is your new Prince of Wales". In fact Edward was not made Prince of Wales until 1301, but ever since that time, the monarch's eldest son has receives the title of Prince of Wales.

Edward PLANTAGENET II, King of EnglandBorn: 25 Apr 1284, Caernarvon Castle, Wales Marriage: Isabella Queen of France 1308 Died: 21 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Eng (Murdered by Roger De Mortimer), atage 43 Buried: 20 Dec 1327, Cathedral Gloucester, England General Notes: 

ID: I4192 Name: *Edward II England Title: King/Prince Sex: M Birth: 25 APR 1284 in Caernarvon Castle,Wales Death:

21 SEP 1327 in Berkeley Castle,Eng(Murdered by Roger De Mortimer Burial: 20 DEC 1327 Cathedral Gloucester,Eng Occupation: Wales Note: EDWARD II (1284-1327): He began his twenty-years' reign atthe age of twenty-three. He married Isabella, daughter of Philippe IV, "Philippe the Fair" of France, who proved his undoing because of her later infatuation for Roger Mortimer. Thisguilty pair conspired against Edward II, who after wandering disguised as a Welsh peasant, was captured, kept over a foetid charnel house, was confined in Kenilworth Castle, and finally murdered with great cruelty in Berkeley Castle.Note: Edward's dying shrieks waked the sleepers in the town below the castle, who in the morning were shown the dead king. One of the disasters of Edward's reign was his defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn after which he galloped sixty miles toescape to Dunbar Castle which lowered its drawbridge to take him in. MacKenzie says of him, "Happily for the Scots he was a special fool." One of  his mistakes was his foolish favoritism for Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser, both of whom wereput to cruel deaths. Edward II was born on Welsh soil at Carnarvon Castle and was the First Prince of Wales. The Welsh loved him and he counted Wales as his own land. He had unrealized visions of contented Welsh freemen, and of a parliament ofjustice for them. These are "like the broken masses of clouds on his native mountains. The incoherence of his life is more lovable than the selfishness of those who tortured him in life and death. The bards whom his father, Edward I, hadoppressed mourned the son, and the spirit of song burst forth again in the 15th century."Note: Note: Edward II, byname EDWARD OF CAERNARVON (b. April 25, 1284, Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales--d. September 1327, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Eng.), king of England from 1307 to 1327. Although he was a man of limited capability, he waged a long,hopeless campaign to assert his authority over powerful barons.Note: Note: The fourth son of King Edward I, he ascended the throne upon his father's death (July 7, 1307) and immediately gave the highest offices to Edward I's most prominent opponents. He earned the hatred of the barons by granting the earldom ofCornwall to his frivolous favourite (and possible lover), Piers Gaveston. In 1311 a 21-member baronial committee drafted a document -- known as the Ordinances -- demanding the banishment of Gaveston and the restriction of the King's powers overfinances and appointments. Edward pretended to give in to these demands; he sent Gaveston out of the country but soon allowed him to return. In retaliation the barons seized Gaveston and executed him (June 1312).Note: Note: Edward had to wait 11 years to annul the Ordinances and avenge Gaveston. Meanwhile, theScottish king Robert I the Bruce was threatening to throw off English overlordship. Edward led an army into Scotland in 1314 but was decisively defeated byBruce at Bannockburn on June 24. With one stroke, Scotland's independence was virtually secured, and Edward was put at the mercy of a group of barons headed by his cousin Thomas of Lancaster, who by 1315 had made himself the real master ofEngland. Nevertheless, Lancaster proved to be incompetent; by 1318 a group of moderate barons led by Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, had assumed the role of arbitrators between Lancaster and Edward. Atthis juncture Edward found two newfavourites--Hugh le Despenser and his son and namesake. When the King supported the younger Despenser's territorial ambitions in Wales, Lancaster banished both Despensers. Edward then took up arms in their behalf. His opponents fell out amongthemselves, and he defeated and captured Lancaster at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, in March 1322. Soon afterward, he had Lancaster executed

.Note: Note: At last free of baronial control, Edward revoked the Ordinances. His reliance on the Despensers, however, soon aroused the resentment of his queen, Isabella. While ona diplomatic mission to Paris in 1325, she became the mistress of RogerMortimer, an exiled baronial opponent of Edward. In September 1326 the couple invaded England, executed the Despensers, and deposed Edward on 21 Jan 1327 in favour of his son, who was crowned (January 1327) King Edward III. Edward II wasimprisoned and in September 1327 died, probably by violence. [Encyclopædia BritannicaCD '97]Note: Note: Reigned 1307-1327, deposed and murdered. Invested as the first Prince of Wales in 1301. His reign was troubled by extravagances, his militarist disasters in Scotland, notably at Bannockburn(1314), and the unpopularity of his favourite peers,Piers Gaveston, who died in 1312, and Hugh le Despencer, 1262-1326. He was deposed on 21 Jan 1327, and murdered by a red-hot poker in his bowels. 

Father: *Edward I (Longshanks) England b: 17 JUN 1239 in Westminster,Eng Mother: *Eleanor Castile Laeon b: 1244 in Burgos,Spain

Marriage 1 *Isabelle France b: 1292 in Paris,France Married: 22 JAN 1308 in Boulogne,Pas-De-Calais,FranceChildren *EdwardIII England b: 13 NOV 1312 in Windsor Castle,Eng

Edward II

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Edward II (25 April 1284–1327(?)), called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in January 1327. He was the sixth Plantagenet king, in a li

ne that began with the reign of Henry II. Interspersed 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, p

olitical squabbling and military defeats.

Widely rumoured to have been either homosexual or bisexual, Edward fathered at least five children by two women. His inability to deny even the most gra

ndiose favours to his male favourites (first a Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston, later a young English lord named Hugh Despenser) led to constant political unrest and his eventual deposition. The be

havior resulted in contemporary accusations of sodomy from Bishop Adam Orleton of Hereford, an ally of Roger Mortimer and QueenIsabella in their successful insurgency against Edward.

Edward I h

ad pacified Gwynedd and some other parts of Wales and the Scottish lowlands, but never exerted a comprehensive conquest. However the army of Edward II was devastatingly defeated at Bannockburn, freein

g Scotland from English control and allowing Scottish forces to raid uncheckedthroughout the north of England.

In addition to these disasters, Edward II is remembered for his probable death in Ber

keley Castle, allegedly by murder, and for being the first monarch to establish colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, Oriel College and King's Hall, a predecessor of Trinity College, at Cambridge, respect

ively.

Edward II of England was born on 25 April 1284 in Caernarvon Castle in Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales.He married Isabelle of France on 25 January 1308 in Boulogne Cathedral, Boulogne, Pas-de-Ca

lai

s, France.Edward was murdered on 21 September 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, at age 43.He was interred in Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucestershire, England.

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