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_Edward II & Gaveston
Edward had a close and controversial relationship with Piers Gaveston, who had joined his household in 1300. The precise nature of Edward and Gaveston's relationship is uncertain; they may have been friends, lovers or sworn brothers. Gaveston's arrogance and power as Edward's favourite provoked discontent both among the barons and the French royal family, and Edward was forced to exile him. On Gaveston's return, the barons pressured the King into agreeing to wide-ranging reforms called the Ordinances of 1311. The newly empowered barons banished Gaveston, to which Edward responded by revoking the reforms and recalling his favourite. Led by Edward's cousin, the Earl of Lancaster, a group of the barons seized and executed Gaveston in 1312... Edward III was informed that his father had died at Berkeley Castle during the night of 21 Sep 1327... In 1330, rumours began to circulate that Edward had been murdered at Berkeley Castle. Accounts that he had been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron or poker
| Date | 1300 |
| File name | _Edward II & Gaveston.jpg |
| File Size | 57.83k |
| Dimensions | 600 x 334 |
| Linked to | 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers Gaveston (Occupation); 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers Gaveston; King of England King Edward Plantagenet, II |
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