The invasion of England in 1326 by the country's queen, Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimer, led to the capture and executions of Hugh Despenser...

Year 1326 (MCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 21 – The foundation...

being captured, the elder Despenser was hanged in his armour at Bristol on 27 October 1326. He was then beheaded, after which his body was cut into pieces...

Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser (c.1287/1289 – 24 November 1326), also referred to as "the Younger Despenser", was the son and heir of Hugh Despenser...

Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (1281 – 31 May 1326), The Magnanimous, feudal baron of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England...

attainted in 1326, when the young Hugh was 18 years old. His mother, Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan, was daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th...

territories in early 1326 whilst France continued to occupy the rest. Meanwhile, the messages brought back by Edward's agent Walter de Stapledon, Bishop...

Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Chirk (c.1256 – 3 August 1326) was a 14th-century Marcher lord, notable for his opposition to Edward II of England...

with the exiled Roger Mortimer, and invaded England with a small army in 1326. Edward's regime collapsed and he fled into Wales, where he was captured...

Siege of Villa di Chiesa (1323–1324) Siege of Bristol (1326) – Invasion of England (1326) Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331) – Byzantine-Ottoman wars Siege of...

with the future Edward III in 1326. 15th century miniature of Isabella (left) directing the Siege of Bristol in October 1326. Hugh Despenser the younger...

Bristol Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England....

and other buildings of the inner bailey. Berkeley Castle was ransacked in 1326 by the forces of Hugh Despenser, the favourite of Edward II. Then in 1327...

were again imprisoned, this time in Bristol Castle, but their actions soon aroused more resistance. In October 1326, a successful rebellion led by Roger...

"Testa de Nevill Returns for the County of Gloucester". Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 12. Bristol and Gloucestershire...

to victory was his increasingly harsh rule until his fall from power in 1326. The initial success of the rebels reflected the power of the Marcher Lords...

feudal baron of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, reputedly the son of Harding of Bristol, the son of Eadnoth the Constable (Alnod), a high official under King Edward...

ISBN 0-85115-567-7. Fryde, Natalie (1979). The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321–1326. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-54806-3. Haines, Roy (2003)...

FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (1326) – executed at Hereford by Queen Isabella, Regent for Edward III Hugh Despenser the Younger (1326) – hanged, drawn and quartered...

buried in The Gaunts Chapel, Bristol, where exists an effigy of him, which chapel had been founded in 1220 by Maurice de Gaunt (d. 1230), a member of...

Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley, 7th feudal baron of Berkeley (1271–1326), Maurice the Magnanimous, of Berkeley Castle. His descendant Sir Thomas...

Bramber long held by William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber. It was confiscated by King John (1199–1216), but returned to the Braose family until 1326....

part in the defence of northern England against Scots invaders. In 1326, at Bristol, he was a member of the council that declared for King Edward III in...

of the 2nd baron in or after 1378. The third creation was in 1326, when Sir Stephen de Cobham of Rundale, in the parish of Shorne in Kent (adjacent to...

754–756; ODB, pp. 1082–1083; Grierson 1962, p. 47. PLRE, Vol. IIIB, pp. 1323–1326; ODB, pp. 2083–2084. PLRE, Vol. IIIB, pp. 855–860; ODB, p. 1318. PLRE, Vol...

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, Marcher lord, 23 1315 probable – Rhodri ap Gruffudd, grandson of Llywelyn Fawr 1326 3 August – Roger Mortimer de Chirk...

over Edward and his kingdom, leading to Roger Mortimer and Queen Isabella's 1326 Invasion of England, their assumption of power, the execution of the two...

died in 1237. It then passed to the crown and was given to a royal relative. De Facto Under the Justiciar of Ireland: These lords were the descendants of...

officials (including his treasurer, Walter de Stapledon). October 18 – Isabella of France begins the Siege of Bristol, which is defended by Hugh Despenser the...

from De Nobilitatibus Sapientii Et Prudentiis Regum by Walter de Milemete (1326). Reconstruction of an arrow-firing cannon that appears in a 1326 manuscript...