King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat at Bannockburn in June 1314, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was only one event in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home and constitutional wrangling, which was ultimately ended by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron. Roy Martin Haines examines Edward II's upbringing, character and the salient periods of his reign, situating him in the much wider context of his times, the empire he inherited and the aftermath of his unregretted death. |
Contents
Formative Years 12841307 | 3 |
Prophesy and Retrospection | 25 |
Faltering Steps 13071308 | 49 |
The Road to Bannockburn | 65 |
Civil Strife 13141322 | 95 |
Baldock Stapeldon and the Despensers | 143 |
Isabella Triumphant 13261330 | 177 |
Edward the Penitent Hermit | 219 |
Ireland 12951330 | 283 |
Gascony and Englands Relations with France 12591330 | 303 |
Summing Up | 333 |
A Two Accounts of the Deposition of Edward II | 343 |
Scotland in the Fourteenth Century | 351 |
Notes | 357 |
Bibliography | 517 |
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