4 June – the King appoints Lord Pembroke as keeper of the realm before traveling to France.[1]
Many horses die of a disease called "Ffarsine".[2]
1321
19 January – Edward II appoints the Archbishop of York; the Bishops of Carlisle, Worcester, and Winchester; the Earls of Pembroke, Hereford and Badlesmere; and six other people to negotiate with the Kingdom of Scotland for a final peace treaty or an extension of the Pembroke treaty of 1319 before its expiration on Christmas Day.[3]
20 January – Parliament appoints a commission to inquire into illegal confederacies against the King.[4]
30 January – the Earls of Hereford, Arundel and Surrey, and 26 other people, are forbidden from attending any meetings to discuss matters affecting the King.[4]
31 October – the King's forces capture Leeds Castle in Kent after Margaret de Clare, wife of the absent Bartholomew Badlesmere, refuses Queen Isabella admittance. When the Queen seeks to force an entry, Lady Badlesmere instructs her archers to shoot at Isabella and her party, six of whom are killed. After Edward occupies the castle, Lady Badlesmere becomes the first woman ever to be imprisoned in the Tower of London.[7]
26 December – faced with an invasion of London during the rebellion by troops led by Baron Badlesmere, the King offers safe conduct for any rebels who come over to the royalist side, but orders the Sheriff of Gloucester to arrest Badlesmere.[9]
12/13 February – the central tower of Ely Cathedral collapses.[6]
10 March – "Despenser War": Battle of Burton Bridge – Edward II orders an attack on the fortified positions of the Contrariant army under his cousin Thomas of Lancaster at Walton-on-Trent in Staffordshire. Thomas is heavily outnumbered and decides to withdraw, but is pursued by Edward's troops. He escapes with the remnants of his army to Tutbury Castle and evades Edward's patrols to cross the flooded River Dove. Finally, Thomas makes his way northwards.[11]
16 March – "Despenser War": Battle of Boroughbridge – Royal forces (some 4,000 men) led by Andrew Harclay defeat the Contrariant barons at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire. During the battle, Harclay holds the bridge against fierce rebel attacks and Thomas of Lancaster is forced to surrender.[5]
22 March – after a show trial at Pontefract Castle, and his conviction by a tribunal for treason against the crown, Thomas of Lancaster is publicly beheaded.
14 April – Baron Badlesmere, another leader of the unsuccessful Contrariant attempt to overthrow the king, is found guilty of treason at a trial in Canterbury. His death sentence is carried out later in the day.[12]
26 June – Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, widow of the Contrariant leader Thomas of Lancaster, surrenders almost all of her properties to King Edward II in order to avoid execution.
3 November – Margaret de Clare, widow of the Contrariant Baron Baldesmere, is freed from imprisonment in the Tower of London and retires to a religious life at the London convent of the Minorite Sisters (later known as the Poor Clares).
Franciscan friar and philosopher William of Ockham is summoned from Oxford to the Papal court at Avignon; either at this time or later he comes into conflict with Pope John XXII and never returns to England.[6]
Monarch's right to royal fish recognised by statute.[14]
27 August – Isabella of France arranges the betrothal of Edward of Windsor to Philippa of Hainault in return for military support in her planned invasion of England.[5]
20 January – Edward II, incarcerated at Kenilworth Castle, abdicates. This is announced in London on 24 January.
25 January – the 14-year-old Edward III is proclaimed King in London in place of his father, Edward II. His mother Isabella and Mortimer rule as regents.[6]
↑ Davies, James Conway (1918). The Baronial Opposition to Edward II – Its Character and Policy: A Study in Administrative History. Cambridge University Press. p.439.
↑ Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records. London: John Baker. ISBN0-212-97022-4.
↑ Phillips, J. R. S. (2018). Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke 1307–1324: Baronial Politics in the Reign of Edward II. Oxford University Press. p.203.
1 2 Ramsay, Sir James H. (1913). Genesis of Lancaster. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp.114–115.
↑ McKisack, May (1959). The Fourteenth Century 1307–1399. Oxf6ord History of England. Oxford University Press. p.64.
↑ Doherty, Paul (2003). Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II. Robinson. p.86.
↑ Warner, Kathryn (2014). Edward II: The Unconventional King. Stroud: Amberley Publishing. p.152.
↑ Ruiz, Teofilo F. (1996). "An Age of Crisis: Hunger". Medieval Europe: Crisis and Renewal. The Teaching Company. ISBN978-1-56585-710-0.
↑ Fergusson, Irvine (1902). A History of the family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford in the country of Chester. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press. p. 11.
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