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Feb 25, 2019 · According to the royal accounts, Edward II died in Berkeley Castle on 21 September 1327. Lord Berkeley’s accounts show that the news was taken in his own letters to the royal household, which was then at Lincoln.
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Thus all the evidence that Edward II died in Berkeley Castle in 1327 even the evidence for his funeral trappings is ultimately dependent on one message, from Thomas Berkeley, Lord Mortimer s son-in-law, to Edward III and his mother, Lord Mortimer's mistress.
On 23 September Edward III was informed that his father had died at Berkeley Castle during the night of 21 September. [303] Most historians agree that Edward II did die at Berkeley on that date, although there is a minority view that he died much later.
Edward II went the way of all deposed kings. Locked up in Berkeley Castle, he was persuaded to abdicate, then never heard of again. Legend has it that he was murdered by having a red-hot poker thrust up his anus.
Dec 1, 2005 · If Lord Berkeley's initial report on 21 September was made in good faith, then Edward II did indeed die in Berkeley Castle. If not, the whole subsequent chain of events – and the whole edifice of chronicle and record evidence that Edward II died – was founded on a deception.
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- 2005
Feb 25, 2014 · Edward II was dead, brutally tortured to death by his gaolers. Isabella’s instructions had been carried out. When Edward’s son took over the throne he quickly usurped the power of Isabella and Mortimer. Edward was buried with all due ceremony in Gloucester Cathedral.
Historical sources record that Edward was murdered there on 21 September 1327. [17] Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587 edition), drawing on earlier sources, describes Edward's murder in detail: Covered walkway leading to Edward II's supposed cell within Berkeley Castle.
