The number of Welsh pilgrims was particularly high. One further legacy of Edward's reign; Roger Mortimer made himself lord of huge territories in Wales. He had himself named earl of March, in recognition of his power base in the Welsh Marches. The territories of March made the earldom the...
It is thought that Edward’s wife Isabella first met and fell in love withRoger Mortimer, 1st Earl of Marchwhen he was a prisoner in the Tower of London, which was both a royal palace and a prison at that time. Isabella arranged for Mortimer’s death sentence to be commuted to life ...
Edward III,1312–77, king of England (1327–77), son of Edward II andIsabella. Early Life He was made earl of Chester in 1320 and duke of Aquitaine in 1325 and accompanied his mother to France in 1325. He returned to England with Isabella and Roger deMortimer, 1st earl of March, on...
attentions were again focused on the situation in Scotland. At this point, having failed to subdue the Scots on the battlefield, Mortimer and Isabella pushed for a permanent peace settlement with their unruly northern neighbors. The result of these negotiations was the Treaty...
Edward Wood, the fourth son of the 2nd Viscount Halifax, was born in Powderham Castle, the home of his maternal grandfather, William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon, on 16th April, 1881. He was the sixth child and fourth son of Charles Lindley Wood (1839–1934), who later became the ...
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By this time their mother, Isabella, was living at the French court, along with her eldest son, Edward, refusing to return to her husband whilst he still welcomed Hugh Despenser at his court. Within months Isabella and her companion (possibly her lover), Roger Mortimer, were to invade Engl...
Meanwhile, York’s eldest son and heir, Edward, had defeated a Lancastrian force at Mortimer’s Cross (February 2) and marched to relieve London, arriving before Margaret on February 26. The young duke of York was proclaimed King Edward IV at Westminster on March 4. Then Edward, with the...
In 1893 Lansdowne sent Sir Mortimer Durand, the government of India’s foreign secretary, on a mission to Kabul to open negotiations on the delimitation of the Indo-Afghan border. The delimitation, known as the Durand Line, was completed in 1896 and added the tribal territory of the Afrīd...
Edward was now the leader of the Yorkist faction. On February 3, 1461, Edward defeated the Lancastrian army at theBattle of Mortimer’s Cross. Edward then took a bold step and declared himself king on March 4, 1461. His decisive victory over the Lancastrians at theBattle of Towtonon Mar...