King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330

by Roy Martin Haines

Overview

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.

Roy Martin Haines examines Edward II's eventful life and the more salient periods of his reign, situating the monarch in the context of the "empire" he inherited and the aftermath of his unregretted death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773531574
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Roy Martin Haines is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and the author of numerous works on British history.

Table of Contents

	Preface	viii
	Acknowledgments	x
	Abbreviations	xii
	Illustrations	xiii
Part 1	Edward of Caernarfon, His Kingship, and Its Denouement
1	Formative Years, 1284-1307	3
2	Royal Character: Prophesy and Retrospection	25
3	Faltering Steps, 1307-1308	49
4	The Last of the Gaveston Years: The Road to Bannockburn, 1308-1314	65
5	Descent into the Abyss: Civil Strife, 1314-1322	95
6	The Tyrannous Years: Baldock, Stapeldon, and the Despensers, 1322-1326	143
7	The Iron Lady: Isabella Triumphant, 1326-1330	177
8	Life after Death: Edward the Penitent Hermit	219
Part 2	The Colonial Empire
9	Scotland, 1290-1330	241
10	Ireland, 1295-1330	283
11	Gascony and England's Relations with France, 1259-1330	303
12	Summing Up	333
	Appendices
A	Two Accounts of the Deposition of Edward II	343
B	A Summary of the Charges against Mortimer	346
	Maps
	Scotland in the Fourteenth Century	351
	Ireland in the Fourteenth Century	352
	The Pursuit and Capture of Sir Thomas Gurney	353
	The Supposed Journeyings of Edward of Caernarfon	354
	Genealogical Tables
	England	355
	France	356
	Notes	357
	Bibliography	517
	Index	567