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- King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327)
How To Use Edward II In A Sentence
- One of the earliest lullabies in English was written during the time of King Edward II of England in the 14th century.
- Edward III tried to assert his independence of the regime at court.
- The evidence was relatively scanty, but much depended on the interpretation of the statute of Edward II that defined treason in terms of ‘compassing or imagining the death of the King’.
- The custom of Christmas masking, "mumming," or "disguising" can be traced at the English court as early as the reign of Edward III. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
- Marlowe s Edward II is a history play which is concatenated sexuality and politics to portray Edward II s tragedy.
- In the very next year, John of Gaunt used the last Parliament of Edward III's reign to institute the most regressive tax ever witnessed in later medieval England.
- As the income Edward II derived from his tenure of the duchy exceeded that of all the English shires combined,2 he not surprisingly exerted great effort to maintain his administrative and judicial presence in what remained to him of the so-called Angevin empire. The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
- At that point, the new English king, Edward III, was in no position to stake his own claim through his French mother, Isabella, but in 1337, when the Gascon situation had deteriorated further, he did so.
- In 1334 Balliol had to pay the price, performing liege homage to Edward for his kingdom, and ceding much of southern Scotland to Edward III's direct rule.
- Edward III tried to assert his independence of the regime at court.
