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Source reference H10046 :

Individuals : Anthony PAINE
spelling could be Payne

Source reference H10047 :

Individuals : Thomasine MYNN
Last name could be Myal

Source reference H10048 :

Individuals : Thomas RICHMOND
Notes for *Thomas Richmond:
Thomas De Richmond was living in the time of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V.

Source reference H10049 :

Individuals : John STRUTT
Not sure if wife was Catherine or Johanna

Source reference H10050 :

Individuals : George WIGHTMAN
Notes for *George Wightman:
His occupation is listed as GENTLEMAN!

Source reference H10051 :

Individuals : Elyas DERICHMOND
Notes for *Elyas DeRichmond:
Elyas De Richmond was living during the time of Edward III and Richard II, 1327-1399.
Upon Richard De Richmond, brother of Elyas De Richmond and Elizabeth, his wife, William de Burgh entailed the manot of Burgh, near Catterick, County York,in the 23 year of the reign of Edward III (1350). Richard and Elizabeth de Richmond had free warren in Burgh, in the 34 year of the reign of Edward III, 1360. Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, Lord of Burgh.

Source reference H10052 :

Individuals : Charles Newton DAVENPORT
Charles Newton Davenport, the eldest son of Calvin N. and Lucy White Davenport, was born at Leyden, Mass., October 20, 1830, and died in Brattleboro April 12, 1882. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, at the Shelburne Falls (Mass.) Academy, and the Melrose Seminary, in West Brattleboro. He entered the office of the Hon. Oscar L. Shafter, of Wilmington, Vt., as a student of law, March 10, 1851, and was admitted as an attorney at the April term, 1854, of the Windham County Court. Immediately upon his admission to the bar, he formed a co-partnership with Mr. Shafter, which continued until November 10, 1855, when it was dissolved, inconsequence of the decision of Mr. Shafter to permanently remain in California, where he had been since October 1854, in the employment of the law firm of Halleck, Park, Peachey & Billings. Mr. Davenport remained in Wilmington in the active practive of his profession until his removal to Brattleboro, in March 1868, where he resided until his death. Here he found a wider field, and more important causes were intrusted to his care, entailing upon him a correspondingly larger amount of labor. In June, 1875, desiring to be relieved of a portion of his largely increased and increasing business and responsibilities, which even then were overtasking his powers, both mental and physical, he took into partnership with him Jonathan G. Eddy, which co-partnership existed until January 1, 1882, when he disposed of his business to James L. Martin, and with a view of regaining his health, which had become seriously impaired by his constant application and unremitting toil in the cause of his clients, he retired from the practice of the profession he loved so well. Mr. Davenport married, December 12, 1854, Miss Louisa C[onant] Haynes, of Lowell, Mass., who bore him six children, four of whom died young. The other two, Charles H. Davenport,. The editor and publisher of the Windham County Reformer, and Herbert J. Davenport, a graduate of Harvard Law School, are living. Mrs. Davenport died September 30, 1870, and Mr. Davenport was married a second time, November 6, 1871, to Mrs. Roxanna J. Dunklee, of Brattleboro. She died May 22, 1881.
Gazeteer and Business Directory of Windham County, Vermont, 1724 - 1884, Hamilton Child, editor. Page 138-139

Source reference H10053 :

Individuals : Alice HUNGERFORD
First name could be Eleanor

Source reference H10054 :

Individuals : Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of NORFOLK
Notes for *Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk:
Though brutal and callous in his domestic life, Thomas Howard was considered by his contemporaries a man if utmost wisdon, solid worth and loyalty.He had a common touch and associated with everybody, regardless of rank.What made Norfold valuable to Henry VIII was his astute judgement and his ruthless expediency.
Known to hate Cardinal Thomas Wolsey because he believed Wolsey was preventing them from enjoying their rightful power, he allied himself with several other Lords in using Anne Boleyn as "a sufficient and apt instrument" to bring "their malicious purpose" to fruition--his total destruction. They convinced her to forge a campaign to discredit Wolsey to the King and then bring about his ruin, for her pride and also for the interest of her family.
In 1525, Thomas Boleyn, the Viscount Rochford, was forced to resign his post as Treasurer with our financial compensation.For this he blamed Wolsey. The discussions with Anne increased.Wolsey soon caught on to what was happening.However, he paid court to the young girl, to keep the King happy.The King needed Wolsey at this point, to negotiate the annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.Anne would play nice until that was accomplished, then she would do her best to discredit Wolsey in the eyes of the King and exact her revenge.
The King and Wolsey parted company for the last time in 1529 at the manor of Grafton in Northhamptonshire, where Henry's grandparents, Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, had married secretly in 1460.

Source reference H10055 :

Individuals : Lord Thomas HOWARD
Notes for Lord Thomas Howard:
Sir Thomas Howard incurred the wrath of King Henry VIII in the year 1537, when it was discovered that he had secretly married Lady Margaret Douglas in 1536.Lady Douglas was the niece of the King and they had the genuine poor taste to marry without the permission of the King.Lord Howard was sent to the Tower of London, where he died on October 31, 1537.

Source reference H10056 :

Individuals : Lady Margaret DOUGLAS
Notes for Lady Margaret Douglas:
Lady Douglas was the niece of King Henry VIII.She became the chief lady-in-waiting for the King's fifth wife, Katherine Howard, first cousin to Anne Boleyn, the King's second wife.

Source reference H10057 :

Individuals : Sir John de VERE
He was the 14th Earl of Oxford

Source reference H10058 :

Individuals : Henry RADCLIFFE
He was the Earl of Sussex

Source reference H10059 :

Individuals : ALICE
her name could be Eleanor

Source reference H10060 :

Individuals : Fil Alan Richmond de Croft Sir ROALD
Notes for *Sir Roald, Fil Alan Richmond de Croft:
Sir Roald, fil Alan Richmond de Croft to whom his uncle Roald fil Roald gave the manors of Caldewell and Croft. He was defendent in a plea of dower, in the 34 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1250), against whom Roald fil Roald de Richmond claimed the manor of Caldewell, in the 35 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1251), died in the 46 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1262).
In Gale's "Honores de Richmond", this Sir Roald is said to have been the son of Sir Roaldus de Richmond, fifth Constable, brother to Alan fil Roald de Croft.
Married to Isabella, daughter and heir of Robert fil Osanna de Langthwayt by Isabella his wife.
Second husband, Alan de Lasceles, claimed his wife's dower, 50 Henry (1266), died10 Edward I (1282). Third husband, Walter de Rubyr, living 17 Edward I (1289).
(Notes from World Family Tree Project)

Source reference H10061 :

Individuals : Robert HUNGERFORD
Notes for *Robert Hungerford:
Robert was beheaded, some sources say in 1463.

Source reference H10062 :

Individuals : Duke of Mowbray Thomas de MOWBRAY
This from Wikipedia
In April 1372, custody of both Thomas and his elder brother, John, was granted to Blanche Wake, a sister of their grandmother, Joan of Lancaster.[2]
On 10 February 1383, he succeeded his elder brother, John Mowbray, 1st Earl of Nottingham, as Baron Mowbray and Baron Segrave, and was created Earl of Nottingham on 12 February 1383.[3] On 30 June 1385 he was created Earl Marshal for life, and on 12 January 1386 he was granted the office in tail male.[4][a] He fought against the Scots and then against the French. He was appointed Warden of the East March towards Scotland in 1389, a position he held until his death.
He was one of the Lords Appellant to King Richard II who deposed some of the King's court favourites in 1387. He worked his way back into the king's good graces, however, and was likely instrumental in the murder, in 1397, of the king's uncle (and senior Lord Appellant), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, who was imprisoned at Calais, where Nottingham was Captain. In gratitude, on 29 September 1397, the king created him Duke of Norfolk.[4][3]
In 1398, Norfolk quarrelled with Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV), apparently due to mutual suspicions stemming from their roles in the conspiracy against the Duke of Gloucester. Before a duel between them could take place, Richard II banished them both. Mowbray left England on 19 October 1398.[6] While in exile, he succeeded as Earl of Norfolk when his maternal grandmother, Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk, died on 24 March 1399.[6]
He died of the plague at Venice on 22 September 1399.[3] Bolingbroke returned to England in 1399 and usurped the crown on 30 September 1399; shortly afterward, on 6 October 1399, the creation of Mowbray as Duke of Norfolk was annulled by Parliament, although Mowbray's heir retained his other titles.[6][3]

Source reference H10063 :

Individuals : Alan Fil Roald Richmond de CROFT
Notes for *Alan Fil Roald Richmond de Croft:
Alan, fil Roald Richmond de Croft, to whom his brother gave the manor of Burton, the third part of which, Sarra, who was the wife of Goscelyn Deyville, claimed as dower, in the 33 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1249), claimed lands in Roppele, Clareworth, Wurthington and Newland, County of Lincoln, in right of his wife, in the 43 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1259), was plaintiff in a plea of trespass, in the 1st yr. of the reign of Edward I (1272).
Wife's name, Matilda, daughter, and co-heir of Peter de Goldington and con-sanguinea and co-heir of Simon de Roppele, Lord of Roppele, County of Lincoln, living in the 28 yr. of the reign of Edward I (1300)

Source reference H10064 :

Individuals : John WHALESBOROUGH
Notes for *John Whalesborough:
Birth date has also been recorded as 1382.
Was Knight of the Shire for Cornwall in 1462.
Justice of Cornwall - 1403-1407

Source reference H10065 :

Individuals : John de MOWBRAY
He was slain near Constantinople while en route to the Holy Land.
Mowbray and twenty-six others were knighted by King Edward III of England in July 1355[3] while English forces were at the Downs, before sailing to France. In 1356, he served in a campaign in Brittany.[2][3] He had livery of his lands on 14 November 1361; however, his inheritance was subject to the dower which his father had settled on his stepmother, Elizabeth de Vere.[3] By 1369, his stepmother had married Sir William de Cossington, son and heir of Stephen de Cossington of Cossington in Aylesford, Kent; not long after the marriage, she and her new husband surrendered themselves to the Fleet prison for debt.[2][4] According to Archer, the cause may have been Mowbray's prosecution of his stepmother for waste of his estates; he had been awarded damages against her of almost £1000.[3]
In about 1343, an agreement had been made for a double marriage between, Mowbray and Audrey Montagu, the granddaughter of Thomas of Brotherton, and Mowbray's sister, Blanche de Mowbray with Audrey's brother, Edward Montagu. Neither marriage took place.[3] Instead, about 1349, a double marriage took place between Mowbray and Elizabeth de Segrave (also granddaughter of Thomas of Brotherton), and Mowbray's sister Blanche with Elizabeth's brother, John de Segrave, Pope Clement VI having granted dispensations for the marriages at the request of Mowbray's grandfather, the Earl of Lancaster, in order to prevent 'disputes between the parents', who were neighbours.[5][3] Mowbray had little financial benefit from his marriage during his lifetime as a result of the very large jointure which had been awarded to Elizabeth's mother, Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk, who lived until 1399.[6][3] However, when Elizabeth's father, John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave, died on 1 April 1353, King Edward III allowed Mowbray to receive a small portion of his wife's eventual inheritance. Estate accounts for 1367 indicate that Mowbray enjoyed an annual income of almost £800 at that time.[3] Elizabeth then succeeded her father as 5th Baroness Segrave, her brother having predeceased their father.
Mowbray was summoned to Parliament from 14 August 1362 to 20 January 1366.[2] On 10 October 1367, he appointed attorneys in preparation for travel beyond the seas; these appointments were confirmed in the following year.[7] Mowbray was slain by the Turks near Constantinople while en route to the Holy Land.[8] A letter from the priory of 'Peyn' written in 1396 suggests that he was initially buried at the convent at Pera, opposite Constantinople;[9][10] according to the letter, 'at the instance of his son Thomas', his bones had been gathered and were sent to England for burial with his ancestors.[7]
His will was proved at Lincoln on 17 May 1369.[11][5] His wife Elizabeth predeceased him in 1368, by only a few months.[5]

Source reference H10066 :

Individuals : Sir Baron Henry BEAUMONT
He was 3rd Lord Beaumont

Source reference H10067 :

Individuals : Sir Roald Fil Alan de RICHMOND
Notes for *Sir Roald fil Alan de Richmond:
Sir Roald, fil Alan de Richmond, Knight, fourth Constable of Richmond Castle, to whom King John, in 1208, gave the lands of William de Rollos, including the manors of Caldewell, Croft, Kipling, etc., with one mill and lands of Skeby, which belonged to Harsculph fil Harsculph, who died with the king's enemies in Brittany, 1204. In the 21 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1237), he was summoned to answer the king by what right he held those manors, when the produced the letters patent of King John, by which the same was granted to him and his heirs forever. He entailed the manors of Burton, Aldeburgh and Croft upon his son Roald, in thelatter part of the 24 yr. of the reign of Henry III (1240).

Source reference H10068 :

Individuals : MARGARET
Notes for Margaret Whalesborough:
Survived her husband and was living in 1383

Source reference H10069 :

Individuals : John HOWARD
John Howard, II
Birthdate: 1310
Birthplace: Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England
Death: after 1388
Place of Burial: East Winch, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:
Son of Sir John Howard, Sheriff of Norfolk and Joan de Cornwall
Husband of Alice de Boys
Father of Sir John Howard, III; Sir Robert Howard of Wiggenhall - East Winch and Tendring; Anne Howard; Isabel Howard; Thomas Howard, Second Duke of Norfolk and 4 others
Occupation: Sir Admiral of Navy, Knight, Admiral of the North Seas, Admiral Of Navy, Admiral of the North Sea, Admiral

Source reference H10070 :

Individuals : Richard FITZALAN

In 1377, Richard FitzAlan held the title of Admiral of the West and South.[2] In this capacity, he attacked Harfleur at Whitsun 1378, but was forced to return to his ships by the defenders. Later, he and John of Gaunt attempted to seize Saint-Malo but were unsuccessful.[4]
Power Struggle
FitzAlan was closely aligned with Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, who was uncle of King Richard II. Thomas was opposed to Richard II's desire for peace with France in the Hundred Years War and a power struggle ensued between him and Gloucester. In late 1386, Gloucester forced King Richard II to name himself and Richard FitzAlan to the King's Council.[5] This Council was to all intents and purposes a Regency Council for Richard II. However, Richard limited the duration of the Council's powers to one year.[6]
Knight of the Garter
In 1386, Richard II named Richard FitzAlan Admiral of England, as well as being made a Knight of the Garter.[2] As Admiral of England, he defeated a Franco-Spanish-Flemish fleet off Margate in March 1387, along with Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham.[6]
New favourites
In August 1387, the King dismissed Gloucester and FitzAlan from the Council and replaced them with his favourites - including the Archbishop of York, Alexander Neville; the Duke of Ireland, Robert de Vere; Michael de la Pole; the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Robert Tresilian, who was the Chief Justice; and the former Mayor of London Nicholas Brembre.[7]
Radcot Bridge
The King summoned Gloucester and FitzAlan to a meeting. However, instead of coming, they raised troops and defeated the new Council at Radcot Bridge on 22 December 1387. During that battle, they took the favourites prisoner. The next year, the Merciless Parliament condemned the favourites.
FitzAlan was one of the Lords Appellant who accused and condemned Richard II's favorites.[5] He made himself particularly odious to the King by refusing, along with Gloucester, to spare the life of Sir Simon de Burley who had been condemned by the Merciless Parliament. This was even after the queen, Anne of Bohemia, went down on her knees before them to beg for mercy. King Richard never forgave this humiliation and planned and waited for his moment of revenge.
In 1394, FitzAlan further antagonized the King by arriving late for the queen's funeral. Richard II, in a rage, snatched a wand and struck FitzAlan in the face and drew blood. Shortly after that, the King feigned a reconciliation but he was only biding his time for the right moment to strike. Arundel was named Governor of Brest in 1388.[2]
Opposed to peace
Peace was concluded with France in 1389. However, Richard FitzAlan followed Gloucester's lead and stated that he would never agree with the peace that had been concluded.[5]
Marriage and children.
On 12 July 1397, Richard FitzAlan was arrested for his opposition to Richard II,[2] as well as plotting with Gloucester to imprison the king.[10] He stood trial at Westminster and was attainted.[11] He was beheaded on 21 September 1397 and was buried in the church of the Augustin Friars, Bread Street, London.[2] Tradition holds that his final words were said to the executioner, "Torment me not long, strike off my head in one blow".[12]
In October 1400, the attainder was reversed, and Richard's son Thomas succeeded to his father's estates and honours.[2]

Source reference H10071 :

Individuals : Richard FITZALAN
Richard was the 10 Earl of Arundel

Source reference H10072 :

Individuals : Thjomas FITZALAN
Became the 12th Earl of Arundel

Source reference H10073 :

Individuals : Robert de UFFORD
She died childless

Source reference H10074 :

Individuals : William BEAUCHAMP
1st Baron Bergavenny

Source reference H10075 :

Individuals : Alice FITZALAN
Alice and Henry Beaufort had an illigitimate child Jane Beaufort. They were not married

Source reference H10076 :

Individuals : Cardinal Henry BEAUFORT
Alice and Henry Beaufort had an illigitimate child Jane Beaufort. They were not married

Source reference H10077 :

Individuals : John de WELLES
He was 5th Baron Welles

Source reference H10078 :

Individuals : John de MOWBRAY
1st Earl of Nottingham

Source reference H10079 :

Individuals : Eleanor PLANTAGENET
She was also called Eleanor of Lancaster

Source reference H10080 :

Individuals : Sir Baron John Beaumont BEAUMONT
He was 4th Lord Beaumont

Source reference H10081 :

Individuals : John de VERE
7th Earl of Oxford

Source reference H10082 :

Individuals : Sir Alan fil Roald de RICHMOND
Notes for *Sir Alan fil Roald de Richmond:
Sir Alan, fil Roald de Richmond, third Constable of Richmond Castle. In the first year of the reign of Richard I (1189), he owed the king 200 marks for the custody of Richmond Castle. In the 4th yr. of the reign of Richard I (1193), he paid 10 marks and owed 190. In the 3rd year of the reign of Richard Ihe was surety for Walter de Lasceles. In the 2nd yr. of the reign of John (1201), he gave the king 300 marks and 3 palfreys to the Constable of Richmond Castle, to hold the same to himself and his heirs, of the kings and his heirs, by good and lawful services. In the 9th yr. of the reign of John (1208), he gave the king 200 marks and 4 palfreys to have the Castle of Richmond, of which he had been disseised(?), and to have the king's letters patent granting him military jurisdiction which the Castle of Richmond ought to possess.
(Notes from World Family Tree Project.)

Source reference H10083 :

Individuals : John de SEGRAVE
He was the 3rd Baron de Segrave

Source reference H10084 :

Individuals : Margaret PLANTAGENET
She was the Dutchess of Norfolk

Source reference H10085 :

Individuals : Stephen de SEAGRAVE
He was Lord of Segrave

Source reference H10086 :

Individuals : David I King of SCOTLAND
From the Encyclopaedia Britannica on line https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-I
David I, (born c. 1082-died May 24, 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland, Eng.), one of the most powerful Scottish kings (reigned from 1124). He admitted into Scotland an Anglo-French (Norman) aristocracy that played a major part in the later history of the kingdom. He also reorganized Scottish Christianity to conform with continental European and English usages and founded many religious communities, mostly for Cistercian monks and Augustinian canons.
The youngest of the six sons of the Scottish king Malcolm III Canmore and Queen Margaret (afterward St. Margaret), David spent much of his early life at the court of his brother-in-law King Henry I of England. Through David’s marriage (1113) to a daughter of Waltheof, earl of Northumbria, he acquired the English earldom of Huntingdon and obtained much land in that county and in Northamptonshire. With Anglo-Norman help, David secured from his brother Alexander I, king of Scots from 1107, the right to rule Cumbria, Strathclyde, and part of Lothian. In April 1124, on the death of Alexander, David became king of Scots.
David recognized his niece, the Holy Roman empress Matilda (died 1167), as heir to Henry I in England, and from 1136 he fought for her against King Stephen (crowned as Henry’s successor in December 1135), hoping thereby to gain Northumberland for himself. A brief peace made with Stephen in 1136 resulted in the cession of Cumberland to David and the transfer of Huntingdon to his son Earl Henry. David, however, continued to switch sides. While fighting for Matilda again, he was defeated in the Battle of the Standard, near Northallerton, Yorkshire (Aug. 22, 1138). He then made peace once more with Stephen, who in 1139 granted Northumberland (as an English fief) to Earl Henry. In 1141 David reentered the war on Matilda’s behalf, and in 1149 he knighted her son Henry Plantagenet (afterward King Henry II of England), who acknowledged David’s right to Northumberland.
In Scotland, David created a rudimentary central administration, issued the first Scottish royal coinage, and built or rebuilt the castles around which grew the first Scottish burghs: Edinburgh, Stirling, Berwick, Roxburgh, and perhaps Perth. As ruler of Cumbria he had taken Anglo-Normans into his service, and during his kingship many others settled in Scotland, founding important families and intermarrying with the older Scottish aristocracy. Bruce, Stewart, Comyn, and Oliphant are among the noted names whose bearers went from northern France to England during the Norman Conquest in 1066 and then to Scotland in the reign of David I. To these and other French-speaking immigrants, David granted land in return for specified military service or contributions of money, as had been done in England from the time of the Conquest.

Source reference H10087 :

Individuals : Roaldus dfe RICHMOND
Notes for *Roaldus de Richmond:
Roaldus de Richmond, "Le Ennase" second Constable of Richmond Castle, under Alan III, Earl of Richmond, seized of lands in Skeeby and Croft by the gift of King Henry, who otherwise gave him the manor of Pickhall, etc. which he gave in marriage with his daughter to Jolanus de Neville. He was Lord of Burton, Aldborough and most of his uncle Emsart's lands (the first Constable of Richmond) by grant to King Stephen. He founded an Abbey on his manor of Easby, in honor of St. Agatha, 1152, where he was buried.

Source reference H10088 :

Individuals : King Edward the 1st "Longshanks" PLANTAGENET
Notes for *King EdwardI, "Longshanks" Plantagenet:
A renowned warrior, Edward I is best remembered for his attempt to unite the kingdoms of England and Scotland under his personal rule, enarning the nickname "Hammer of the Scots".He successfully conquered Wales, incorporating the Principality into England in 1284, and made his own son Prince of Wales in 1301.As a legal reformer, he reorganized the law courts, clarified much of the law and dismissed corrupt judges.In summoning a partly elected Parliament in 1295 - the so-called Model Parliament - Edward attempted to ensure that "what touches all should be approved by all", an early attempt at representative democracy.
At two metres (six feet) tall, Edward was called "Longshanks" because be stood head and shoulders above his fellow Englishmen.He had black hair, which in later life turned snowy white, and was regarded as handsome, despite a drooping eyelid.Edward was once considered the greatest of our medieval kings, although his reputation has recently undergone a reappraisal and he has emerged a little less unblemished.He could be a bully, was ambitious and devious, often capricious - he sacked a number of top officials for still undiscovered reasons - and could be ruthlessly cruel.Like so many of the Plantagenets, he had a violent temper; he once clouted a page at a royal wedding, so hard that he agreed to pay him damages.Yet allowing for contemporary exaggeration, his reputation for chivalry and fearlessness remains unscathed, and he was a brave fighter and an able administrator.
THE CRUSADE
In 1267, the Eight Crusade was launced by Louis IX of France to expel the infidel Muslims from Palestine.Edward, who was Louis' nephew, agreed to join the Crusade and set out from Dover in 1270.Louis died of plague soon after and his successor was not interested in continuing the Crusade.Edward decided to carry one and eventually arrived at Acre in 1271.There, a year was wasted by squabbles between the various Christian armies and Edward left Palestine in 1272, returning to England in 1274.
In 1297, the Scots rose against English rule and under the leadership of William Wallace, defeated Edward at the Battle of Falkirk.
In 1299, Edward married Margaret of France and they had three children.In 1301, he creates his son Prince of Wales.
In 1305, William Wallace was betrayed, tried and executed in London.(The Mel Gibson movie "Braveheart" tells his story).Robert the Bruce took over the leadership of the Scottish rebellion to English rule and was crowned King of Scotland at Scone in 1306.In 1307, Edward invaded Scotland again, but died on his way north.
The death of King Edward from historytoday.com
The son of a weakling father and in turn the father of a weakling son, Edward I was one of the most formidable and effective of all English kings. Standing six foot two inches tall, he had an impressive presence and a ferocious temper, and contemporaries apparently had no difficulty in believing the story that one unfortunate man died of sheer fright in his presence. He had been named Edward by his pious father, Henry III, in honour of Edward the Confessor, but there turned out to be little resemblance.
The new Edward conquered Wales, came close to conquering Scotland and set the institution of Parliament firmly on track. For the great majority of his English subjects he was an excellent king because he kept good order and would not tolerate injustice. He also fathered some seventeen children by his two wives. As he grew older, his temper grew more savage and his second wife, Margaret of France, had to try to protect the children from their father’s anger.
In 1290 Edward was recognized as overlord of Scotland when he was called in to decide who should succeed to the vacant Scottish throne. He pronounced in favour of John Balliol, whom he treated as his puppet. When Balliol objected, Edward invaded Scotland in 1296, put Balliol in the Tower of London and put the Scots under English rule, but he faced one rebellion after another for the next ten years. In 1306 Robert Bruce took up the cause of Scottish independence and was crowned King of Scots at Scone.
When the news reached Edward, who was now in his middle sixties, he burst into a violent fury and resolved to finish matters with the Scots once and for all. His army was ordered to muster at Carlisle in July. Still vigorous in mind, the King’s body was wearing out and he was not capable of riding. Carried north by horse-litter, he made his headquarters at Lanercost Priory, near Carlisle, while his armies ravaged Scotland and drove Bruce in flight, but Bruce returned to action the following summer. Meanwhile there had been a quarrel between the King and his son and heir, the future Edward II, over the latter’s partiality for his favourite Piers Gaveston. The old King turned on his son and seized him by the hair, calling him ‘whoreson misbegotten boy’ and tearing handfuls of his hair out.
Edward was suffering badly from dysentery and his opponents were anticipating his end. A supposed prophecy of Merlin was in circulation, that after his death the Scots and the Welsh would unite and have things as they wished. A defiant Edward decided that he must take the field himself. He mounted his warhorse and led his army north, but he could manage to ride only two miles a day and when he reached the village of Burgh-on-Sands, not far from Carlisle, he had to take to his bed.
It was said that he realized he was dying and sent word to his son to have his embalmed body carried with the army into Scotland so that even in death he could still lead his men. The suggestion was not carried out.
About noon on July 7th, when his servants came to lift him up so that he could eat, the king died in their arms. He was sixty-eight.
His body was sent to London and interred in Westminster Abbey in October in a plain grey marble tomb, with an inscription calling him ‘the Hammer of the Scots’. As indeed he was, but in the end the anvil had worn down the hammer.

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