How the 1327 Coup Against Edward II Contributed to English Constitutional Development

Edward’s deposition and murder were part of a long chain of events leading to today’s constitutional British and Commonwealth monarchy


Frontier Centre for Public Policy

It is always difficult to be the heir of a successful king, particularly when you lack the virtues that your eminent father had possessed. Edward II was not the successful military leader that his father Edward I (a.k.a. “Longshanks” and “Hammer of the Scots”) had been. In fact, at Bannockburn in 1314, he handed the Scots a victory so complete that tartan-clad football fans are still celebrating it 700 years later.

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