Edward Plantagenet of England II 
Edward was born on April 25th, 1284 in Carnavon Castle, Carnavon, Caernarvonshire, Wales.1 Edward's father was Edward (Longshanks) Plantagenet of England I and his mother was Princess Eleanor of Castile. His paternal grandparents were Henry Plantagenet of England III and Lady Eleanore Berenger of Provence; his maternal grandparents were Ferdinand (The Saint) of Castile and Leon III and Joanna de Dammartin. He had three brothers and twelve sisters, named John, Henry, Alphonso, Katherine, Eleanor, Joan, Joan (of Acre), Margaret, Berengeria, Mary, Elizabeth, Isabel, Alice, Beatrice and Lucy. He had four half-brothers and a half-sister, named John, Thomas, Edmund, Edmund and Eleanor. He died at the age of 43 on September 21st, 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England.1 General Notes
Edward II (1284-1327), Plantagenet king of England (1307-1327), whose incompetence and distaste for government finally led to his deposition and murder.
Edward was born on April 25, 1284, at Caernarfon (Caernarvon), Wales, the fourth son of King Edward I and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. The deaths of his older brothers made the infant prince heir to the throne; in 1301 he was proclaimed Prince of Wales, the first heir apparent in English history to bear that title. The prince was idle and frivolous, with no liking for military campaigning or affairs of state. Believing that the prince's close friend Piers Gaveston, a Gascon knight, was a bad influence on the prince, Edward I banished Gaveston. On his father's death, however, Edward II recalled his favorite. Gaveston incurred the opposition of the powerful English barony. The nobles were particularly angered in 1308, when Edward made Gaveston regent for the period of the king's absence in France, where he went to marry Isabella, daughter of King Philip IV. In 1311 the barons, led by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, forced the king to appoint from among them a committee of 21 nobles and prelates, called the lords ordainers. They proclaimed a series of ordinances that transferred the ruling power to themselves and excluded the commons and lower clergy from Parliament. After they had twice forced the king to banish Gaveston, and the king had each time recalled him, the barons finally had the king's favorite kidnapped and executed.
In the meantime, Robert Bruce had almost completed his reconquest of Scotland, which he had begun shortly after 1305. In 1314 Edward II and his barons raised an army of some 100,000 men with which to crush Bruce, but in the attempt to lift the siege of Stirling they were decisively defeated (see Bannockburn, Battle of). For the following eight years the earl of Lancaster virtually ruled the kingdom. In 1322, however, with the advice and help of two new royal favorites, the baron Hugh le Despenser, and his son, also Hugh le Despenser, Edward defeated Lancaster in battle and had him executed. The le Despensers thereupon became de facto rulers of England. They summoned a Parliament in which the commons were included and which repealed the ordinances of 1311 on the ground that they had been passed by the barons only. The repeal was a great step forward in English constitutional development, for it meant that thenceforth no law passed by Parliament was valid unless the House of Commons approved it.
Edward again futilely invaded Scotland in 1322, and in 1323 signed a 13-year truce with Bruce. In 1325 Queen Isabella accompanied the Prince of Wales to France, where, in accordance with feudal custom, he did homage to king Charles IV for the fief of Aquitaine. Isabella, who desired to depose the le Despensers, allied herself with some barons who had been exiled by Edward. In 1326, with their leader, Roger de Mortimer, Isabella raised an army and invaded England. Edward and his favorites fled, but his wife's army pursued and executed the le Despensers and imprisoned Edward. In January 1327, Parliament forced Edward to resign and proclaimed the Prince of Wales king as Edward III. On September 21 of that year Edward II was murdered by his captors at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.24 Aug 1113 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau du Loir, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.07 Feb 1102 in Winchester, England d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Martime, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Languedoc, Haute-Garonne, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Saint Jacques-de-Comopostelle, Spain
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.1103 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.Mar 1130
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster, London, England
- b.1134 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.07 Aug 1187 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.1160 in Angoileme, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couroun, France
- b.1138 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, France d.31 May 1245 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.1126 in Reims, Champagen, France d.1183 in Palestine, Israel
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Gali, France d.1218 in France
- b.1127 in Courtenay, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-San, Cumberland, England
- b.May 1152 d.25 Apr 1196
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.21 Sep 1164 d.09 Nov 1208 in Sijena
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- d.1210
- b.1180 d.1209
- d.1190
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoie, France d.04 Mar 1188 in France
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1156 d.08 Apr 1230
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1130 d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
- b.1138
- b.25 Apr 1284 in Carnavon Castle, Carnavon, Caernarvonshire, Wales d.21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
- b.01 Mar 1105 d.21 Aug 1157 in Fresneda
- b.1137 d.22 Jan 1188 in Benavente
- b.1107 d.03 Feb 1148 in Palencia, Spain
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Valladolid, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaveuva da Sarria
- b.25 Jul 1110 d.06 Dec 1185
- b.1139 d.16 Oct 1188
- b.1125 d.04 Nov 1157
- b.1199 d.1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.1134 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.1133 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.1180 d.08 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.1244 d.28 Nov 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1100 in Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.1183
- b.1135 in Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, England
- b.1180 in Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, France
- b.1108 in Clermont en Beauvaisis, Oise, France d.1162
- b.1138 in Ponthieu, Ain, France d.Oct 1200
- b.1110 in Dammartin, Isle de France, France d.20 Jan 1182
- d.16 Mar 1279
- b.1135 d.30 Jun 1191
- b.1179 d.06 Oct 1221
- b.1153 d.1204
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Normandie d.Sep 1250 in Normandie
- b.1119 in Reims, Champagne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France
- b.1170 d.18 Jul 1218
- b.1140 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1206
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Details of Edward's family with Isabella Capet of France
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