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Edward II, King of England

Male 1284 - 1327  (43 years)


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  • Name Edward II   [1
    Suffix King of England 
    Birth 25 Apr 1284  Caenarfon, Gwynedd, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 21 Sep 1327  Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Alternate death 22 Sep 1327  Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Burial Abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I6760  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW
    Last Modified 28 Dec 2023 

    Father Edward I, King of England,   b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Mother Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England,   b. 1240   d. 28 Nov 1290, Hardby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Marriage 18 Oct 1254  Abbey of Santa MarĂ­a la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Family ID F1704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabella of France, Queen Consort of England,   b. 1292, Boulogne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Aug 1358, Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jan 1308  Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 9
    Children 
    +1. Edward III, King of England,   b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1377, Sheen Palace, Richmond, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
     2. Joan, Queen Consort of Scotland,   b. 5 Jul 1321, Tower of London, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Sep 1362 (Age 41 years)
    Family ID F1357  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Mar 2019 

  • Notes 
    • He is widely held to have died 21 (or 22) Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, but Ian Mortimer has presented arguments to the contrary that seem to us not easily dismissed.

  • Sources 
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    2. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    3. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.

    4. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012.

    5. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    6. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.

    7. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963., date only.

    8. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., year and town only.

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