Edouard II of England

Edouard II of England (April 25th 1284, Castle of Caernarfon, Wales - September 21st 1327), was King d' Angleterre of 1307 with 1327.

He was the son of the king Edouard I {{er}} and of Aliénor de Castille.

Biography

He is crowned in the Abbaye of Westminster to London the February 24th 1308 per Henry Merewell (alias Woodlock), bishop of Winchester. He surrounds himself by two Favori S, Pierre de Gaveston, his lover, then Hugues Despenser, which are unpopular near all the social classes of the kingdom. Contrary to his father, cruel to his enemies but knowing to reward his faithful subjects, this weak king is hated of all the population. The revolt goes up little by little, until the general rising, carried out by the queen Isabelle in 1326. Thereafter the king is relieved, mowed and made captive by the Parliament in Westminster Hall the January 20th 1327 after having had to give his crown and his sceptre to the envoys of the Parliament the January 13rd 1327. Hugues Despenser is considered, and carried out. The son of Edouard II and Isabelle is proclaimed king the January 25th 1327, under the name of Edouard III.

The government of Isabelle and its lover Roger Mortimer is so precarious, that they do not want to be likely to leave the king relieved in the hands of their political enemies. April 3rd it is withdrawn from Kenilworth, and is entrusted to the guard of two faithful of Mortimer. Imprisoned with the castle of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, he is assassinated the September 21st 1327.

He is buried in the left Déambulatoire of the Cathédrale of Gloucester.

Following the declaration of died of the king, the reign of Isabelle and Mortimer does not last a long time. Mortimer and Isabelle make peace with the Scot with the treaty of Northampton, but this measurement is highly unpopular. March 19th 1330, the count de Kent, brother of Edouard II, is carried out to have fomented the restoration of this last. It was told that Mortimer had blown to him of false informations on the fact that Edouard is always in life, so as to trap it. However, the execution of the count by Mortimer deprives it of its last support. Consequently, at once that Edouard III is sufficiently old, in 1330, it makes carry out Mortimer for several loads of the treason, most serious of them being the murder of Edouard II. Edouard III saves his Isabelle mother, and gives him a generous pension, but is ensured that it withdraws public life definitively. She dies with the castle of Rising with Norfolk, on August 23rd, 1358.

Rumors around its death

The rumor ran after its death, that Edouard had been killed by the insertion of a part of copper in his anus (become later an iron reddened with fire), supposed to be the end deserved of homosexual. This method would have the benefit to reveal that the king was deceased of natural death: this, thanks to the fact that a metal tube would have been inserted as a preliminary in its rectum, allowing red iron to penetrate in the body without leaving marks of burn on the anus. This rumor was reported later in the history, by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535): “In the night of October 11th, 1327, the king resting on a bed was suddenly aggripé, while a large mattress… held it plated, an iron of plumber, heated with the red, was introduced into its secret parts so that it burned internal parts beyond the intestines”.

Its fine tragedy, treated by many playwrights (in particular Christopher Marlowe, contemporary of Shakespeare) and British historians, constitutes a good portion of the screen of the volume V ( the She-wolf of France ) of the cursed Kings , novel of Maurice Druon. This last the met in scene, assassinated by the knights Maltravers and Gournay on the order of Lord Roger Mortimer, lover of the queen Isabelle, who pushes it to give this order. The murderers of the king impale it with a red iron bar in the rectum, so that one cannot establish with certainty which it was assassinated, because the Régicide is prohibited by the Church. The trick used for this purpose is exemplary of duplicity, since the missive giving the order, received in Latin by his geoliers, could have two contrary directions: “Eduardum occidere nolite timere bonum is”.

Family and descent

The January 25th 1308, it marries Isabelle de France, with Boulogne-sur-Mer, in current the Département of the Pas-de-Calais (France), girl of the king de France Philippe IV '' Beautiful the '' and of the queen of Navarre Jeanne I {{Re}}.

Although the king is homosexual, four children come from this union:

Its titles

  • Count de Chester and Prince de Galles (1301-1307)  ;
  • king d' Angleterre (1307-1327)  ;
  • duke of Guyenne or Aquitaine (1307-1327)  ;
  • alleged suzerain d' Écosse.
  • count de Ponthieu

Simple: Edward II off England

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