Edward II Plantagenet 
Edward II was born on April 25th, 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Wales. Edward II's father was Edward I Plantagenet and his mother was Eleanor of Castile. His paternal grandparents were Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanor Berenger De Provence; his maternal grandparents were Fernando III of Castile and Jeanne De Dammartin. He had four brothers and eight sisters, named John, Henry, Alphonso, Berengaria, Eleanor, Joan, Isabel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Beatrice and Blanche. He was the third youngest of the thirteen children. He had a half-brother named Edmund. He died at the age of 43 on September 21st, 1327 in Berkeley, England.General Notes
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Edward II had few of the qualities that made a successful medieval king.
Edwa rd surrounded himself with favourites (the best known being a Gascon,
Piers G aveston), and the barons, feeling excluded from power, rebelled.
Throughout h is reign, different baronial groups struggled to gain power
and control the K ing.
The nobles' ordinances of 1311, which attempted to limit royal control of
finance and appointments, were counteracted by Edward. Large debts (many
i nherited) and the Scots' victory at Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce in
1314 m aDe Edward more unpopular.
Edward's victory in a civil war (1321-2) and such m easures as the 1326
ordinance (a protectionist measure which set up compulsor y markets or
staples in 14 English, Welsh and Irish towns for the wool trade) did not
lead to any compromise between the King and the nobles.
Finally, in 1326, Edward's wife, Isabella of France, led an invasion
against her husband . In 1327 Edward was made to renounce the throne in
favour of his son Edward (the first time that an anointed king of England
had been dethroned since Eth elred in 1013). Edward II was later murdered
at Berkeley Castle.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau-du-Luoir, Eure-et-Loire, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.05 Aug 1102 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy
- b.24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxforshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1099 in Toulouse, France d.19 Apr 1137 in Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- b.1122 in Chateau De Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.01 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Forntevrault, Anjou, France
- b.1103 in Aquitaine, France d.> 1130 in Talmont, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Bury St Edmund, Suffolk, England
- b.06 Apr 1118 in Angouleme, Charente-Maritime, France d.07 Aug 1187 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couro, France
- b.~ 1135
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.~ 1140
- b.~ 1163 in Courtenay, Calinois, France d.~14 Sep 1211 in France
- b.~ 1141
- b.18 Jun 1239 in Westiminister, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-Sands, Cumberland, England
- b.<25 Mar 1157 in Huesca, Spain d.25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Pyrbenbees-Orientales, France
- b.1174 in Barcelona, Aragon, Spain d.Feb 1209 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- b.21 Sep 1154 in Toledo, Castile d.09 Nov 1208 in Monasterio De Jaen, Jaen, Spain
- b.1198 in Aix-En-Provence, Provence, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.~ 1154 in Sabran, Gard, France d.1224
- b.~ 1180 in Forcalquiers, Basses-Alpes, France d.> 1222 in France
- b.~ 1155 in Forcalquier, Alpes-De-Haute-Provence, France
- b.1218 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.20 May 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoie, France d.01 Mar 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1198 in Savoy, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.~ 1152 in Geneva, Switzerland
- b.~ 1178 in Geneva, Canton Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre Chatel, Isere, France
- b.~ 1155 in Faucigny, France
- b.25 Apr 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Wales d.21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley, England
- b.~ 1115
- b.~ 1140 d.1188 in Benavente, Italy
- b.~ 1118
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva, De Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.~ 1110 in Portugal
- b.~ 1145 in Coimbra, Portugal d.16 Oct 1188 in Bamba, Spain
- b.~ 1120
- b.19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Castile, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.1135 in Castile, Spain d.~ 1158 in Castile, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Soria, Castile d.06 Oct 1214 in Gotierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.~ 1139 in Navarre, Spain d.24 Jun 1158 in Castile, Spain
- b.08 Jan 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain d.08 Nov 1246 in Burgos, Spain
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.31 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.1122 in Chateau De Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.01 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Forntevrault, Anjou, France
- b.~ 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.29 Nov 1290 in Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1105 in Dammartin-en-Goele, Seine-et-Marne, France d.1182 in Dammartin-en-Goele, Seine-et-Marne, France
- b.1135 in Dammartin-en-Goele, Seine-et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, England
- b.1119 in Wellingfordshire, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1180 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, France
- b.~ 1070 in Clermont, Oise, France d.1162
- b.1138 in Clermont, Oise, Picardy, France d.Oct 1200
- b.~ 1095 in Dammartin, Isle de France, France d.20 Jan 1183
- b.1216 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.16 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, France
- b.~ 1155 in Pontheiu, Flanders
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Normandy, France d.1250 in Normandy, France
- b.1119 in Reims, Marne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.1160
- b.~ 1138 in Castile, Spain d.1160
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They had two sons and two daughters, named Edward III, John, Eleanor and Joan.
Family Notes
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Children
Edward III Plantagenet
Edward III was born on November 13th, 1312 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. He died at the age of 64 on June 21st, 1377 in Shene Palace, Surrey, England. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
Joan Plantagenet
Joan was born on July 5th, 1321 in Tower of London, Middlesex, England. She died at the age of 41 on September 7th, 1362 in Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England.
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