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King Edward II : Edward of Caernarfon, his life, his reign, and its aftermath, 1284-1330 / Roy Martin Haines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haines, Roy Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327.
- Edward.
- Great Britain--History--Edward II, 1307-1327.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Edward III, 1327-1377.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (625 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- King Edward the Second
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Edward of Caernarfon, His Kingship, and Its Denouement
- Formative Years, 1284–1307
- Royal Character: Prophesy and Retrospection
- Faltering Steps, 1307–1308
- The Last of the Gaveston years: The Road to Bannockburn, 1308–1314
- Descent Into the Abyss: Civil Strife, 1314–1322
- The Tyrannous years: Baldock Stapeldon and the Despensers, 1322–1326
- The Iron Lady: Isabella Triumphant, 1326–1330
- Life After Death: Edward the Penitent Hermit
- The Colonial Empire
- Scotland, 1290–1330
- Ireland, 1295–1330
- Gascony and England’s Relations with France, 1259–1330
- Summing Up
- Appendices
- Two Recounts of the Deposition of Edward II
- A Summary of the Charges Against Mortimer Incorporated in the Rolls of Parliament
- Maps and Genealogical Tables
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-566) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86072-0
- 9786612860720
- 0-7735-7056-X
- OCLC:
- 133159805
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