Robert the Bruce, after murdering his rival, Comyn, in the church at Greyfriars, was crowned King of Scots. Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. He established English rule over all of Wales in 1282–84, and secured recognition of his overlordship from the Scottish king, although the Scots under Sir William Wallace and Robert (I) the Bruce fiercely resisted actual conquest. (11) Mary (1278 - 1332)- A Benedictine nun in Amesbury, Wiltshire. Fluent in French and German, he made a number of visits abroad (in 1904, he visited France - a visit which helped to create the atmosphere which made the subsequent Anglo-French entente cordiale possible); he was related to nearly every Continental sovereign and came to be known as the 'Uncle of Europe'. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); At the age of fifteen, the Lord Edward as he was then known, was married to his second cousin, the thirteen year old Leonora or Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290) on 1st November, 1254, to settle disputes over rights to Gascony. The couple's first two sons, Henry and John died in infancy, their third son, Alphonso, the heir to the throne and Eleanor's favourite died at twelve years old, leaving their fourth son, Edward as his father's heir. Edward stormed the inadequately defended border town of Berwick upon Tweed, slaughtering its inhabitants and overun Scotland. The campaign was successful and the Welsh Prince surrendered to the English king, by the Treaty of Aberconwy in 1287 he was compelled to accept humiliating peace terms. Keep this vow). (vi) Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford (6 December c. 1309 - 1361) Prince Albert Edward was born at Buckingham Palace on 9 November 1841, the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. (i) Hugh de Bohun (September 1303 - 1305) The body had been covered from the waist downwards by a rich cloth of figured gold. During his period as a king, he focused more on the reformation of common law and royal administration. Edward was in the Holy Land when he heard of his father's death on 20 November 1272, which affected him deeply and consequently made him King of England. The normally thick skinned Edward was deeply affected by her loss.

(v) Mary de Monthermer Among Edward's childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, who was the son of Henry III's brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall. Edward then took Northampton from de Montfort's son Simon, before embarking on a retaliatory campaign against Derby's lands. He was also entitled as the Hammer of the Scots and Edward Longshanks. By an agreement known as the Mise of Lewes, Edward and his cousin Henry of Almain were given up as prisoners to the rebel barons. Eleanor had been accompanying Edward on a journey to Lincoln, when she began to exhibit sympoms of a feverish illness she had previously suffered from in 1287. Legend relates that his wife Eleanor sucked the poison from the wounds. Coronation ChairEdward's attention was turned north to Scotland. It is believed that it was in the Holy Land that Edward recieved inspiration for the design of the castles he later built to secure his conquests in Wales. Edward was a delicate child and suffered from a life threatening illness in 1246, which his devoted mother, Eleanor of Provence, nursed him through at Beaulieu Abbey. In his right hand was a sceptre with a cross In his left hand was a rod, measuring around 5 feet long and topped with a white enamel dove. The king had been richly dressed in a red silk damask tunic with a stole of thick white tissue across his chest, set with filigree gilt metal and semi-precious stones. She lived on for ten years after her husband's death, dying at the age of 36 and was buried at Greyfriars Church, Greenwich.