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Alison Weir and Edward II

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    Posted by JeffreyofNorthumbria (U14022752) on Friday, 1st April 2011

    I am reading Alison Weir's book, 'Isabella', who was the wife of Edward II and I know that Alison Weir is not everyone's favourite historian but I was interested in her speculation that Edward II may not have actually been murdered at Berkeley Castle but have escaped and that one of his guards is actually buried in his tomb at Gloucester Cathedral while Edward escaped and was kept at Corfe Castle for a while and eventually went to live in France and Italy, I think it was.

    I always believed the story that he was murdered by a sword, or poker, being pushed in his rear and that this killed him. But according to the book this is a fable, just propaganda meant to ruin the reputations of Isabella and Mortimer. What is the opinion of you highly knowledgeable messageboard posters? I would be very interested to hear people's take on this.

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    Posted by shivfan (U2435266) on Tuesday, 5th April 2011

    English history is full of stories about how monarchs cheated death, and are living happily somewhere else....

    I'm not sure that I accept Weir's theory that Edward II managed to escape death, without seeing something to corroborate such a hypothesis.

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