Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Problems and sources
- 2 Introduction: The king and the magnates before 1318
- 3 The rise of the Despensers
- 4 The civil war, 1321–2
- 5 The aftermath of the civil war: Imprisonments and executions
- 6 The aftermath of the civil war: Confiscations and the territorial settlement
- 7 Royal finance, 1321–6
- 8 The Despensers' spoils of power, 1321–6
- 9 The defeat in Scotland, 1322–3
- 10 The French war
- 11 The opposition to royal tyranny, 1322–6
- 12 London
- 13 Queen Isabella's invasion and the end of the regime
- 14 Edward II's deposition and ultimate fate
- 15 Epilogue: The regime of Mortimer and Isabella
- Appendix 1 Properties of the Despensers: Main facts and sources
- Appendix 2 The deposition of Edward II
- Notes
- Cited classes of records at the Public Record Office
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Queen Isabella's invasion and the end of the regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Problems and sources
- 2 Introduction: The king and the magnates before 1318
- 3 The rise of the Despensers
- 4 The civil war, 1321–2
- 5 The aftermath of the civil war: Imprisonments and executions
- 6 The aftermath of the civil war: Confiscations and the territorial settlement
- 7 Royal finance, 1321–6
- 8 The Despensers' spoils of power, 1321–6
- 9 The defeat in Scotland, 1322–3
- 10 The French war
- 11 The opposition to royal tyranny, 1322–6
- 12 London
- 13 Queen Isabella's invasion and the end of the regime
- 14 Edward II's deposition and ultimate fate
- 15 Epilogue: The regime of Mortimer and Isabella
- Appendix 1 Properties of the Despensers: Main facts and sources
- Appendix 2 The deposition of Edward II
- Notes
- Cited classes of records at the Public Record Office
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As 1325 drew to a close the flagrant outrages of the disinherited rebels grew bolder, while, from abroad, rumours of an impending invasion by the queen hardened into certainty. The direction of the invasion, however, remained far from clear. Consecutive commissions against disturbers of the peace were issued without success. In one of these, issued in February 1326, Edward admitted that the problem of law and order was rapidly becoming more serious. In his mind, when he issued this commission, were probably some particularly notorious outrages of the previous months. The most famous, and most recent, had been the murder in January 1326 of Robert Belers, chief baron of the exchequer. But this was not the only attack on a prominent royal official. In July 1325 the deputy of Robert Sapy, keeper of Contrariant castles in the March of Wales, including St Briavels, was attacked in Gloucestershire while on his way to render his superior's accounts at the exchequer. His eyes were torn out, all his limbs were broken and his muniments and accounts were carried off. About this time Edward started moving the imprisoned Contrariants about from castle to castle so that their whereabouts could be concealed. It is clear from this that he doubted his ability to defend the castles which were holding them. An outrage perpetrated in October 1325 may have added to his doubts.
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- The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321–1326 , pp. 176 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979