What happened to Edward II?
David Carpenter: Impostors, 7 June 2007
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the British Nation
by Ian Mortimer.
Pimlico, 536 pp., £8.99, April 2007,978 1 84413 530 1 Show More
by Ian Mortimer.
Pimlico, 536 pp., £8.99, April 2007,
“... Abbey, erected soon after his death in 1377. Edward, the initiator of the Hundred Years War, the victor of Sluys and Crécy, the conqueror of Calais, achieved legendary status in his lifetime, and was long revered after his death. Dr Johnson, in his poem London, called on ‘illustrious Edward!’ to survey the current crop of degenerate Britons: ‘Lost in ... ”