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	'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].		'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

	To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates. <br>They arranged his marriage, in 1328, to Philippa of Hainault, and ~~they~~ had a large family, with no less than 9 children suriviving to adulthood, well above the average for their period. His eldest son, born in 1330, was [[Edward the Black Prince\|Edward]] [[Prince]] of [[Wales]], who became known (later) as the [[Edward the Black Prince\|Black Prince]].		To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates. <br>They arranged his marriage, in 1328, to Philippa of Hainault, and she and Edward had a large family, with no less than 9 children suriviving to adulthood, well above the average for their period. His eldest son, born in 1330, was [[Edward the Black Prince\|Edward]] [[Prince]] of [[Wales]], who became known (later) as the [[Edward the Black Prince\|Black Prince]].

	Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.		Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.
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	By 1376 the failure, on every front, of Edward's military efforts, and the cost of them, led to a [[parliament]] which removed many of the king's advisers (as well as of his mistress, Alice Perrers). By then, however, the Black ~~prince~~ was dead, and Edward was smitten with the illnesses that would kill him, and the effective government of the realm had fallen to [[John of Gaunt]]. Later in that year Edward died and, since the Black Prince had predeceased him, the kingdom fell to his grandson, [[Richard II]].		By 1376 the failure, on every front, of Edward's military efforts, and the cost of them, led to a [[parliament]] which removed many of the king's advisers (as well as of his mistress, Alice Perrers). By then, however, the Black Prince was dead, and Edward was smitten with the illnesses that would kill him, and the effective government of the realm had fallen to [[John of Gaunt]]. Later in that year Edward died and, since the Black Prince had predeceased him, the kingdom fell to his grandson, [[Richard II]].

	===Retrospect===		===Retrospect===

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	'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].		'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

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	'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].		'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

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	'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].		'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

	To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates. <br>They arranged his marriage, in 1328, to Philippa of Hainault, and they had a large family, with no less than 9 children suriviving to adulthood, well above the average for their period. His eldest son, born in 1330, was [[Edward the Black Prince]]\|Edward]] [[Prince]] of [[Wales]], who became known (later) as the [[Edward the Black Prince\|Black Prince]].		To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates. <br>They arranged his marriage, in 1328, to Philippa of Hainault, and they had a large family, with no less than 9 children suriviving to adulthood, well above the average for their period. His eldest son, born in 1330, was [[Edward the Black Prince\|Edward]] [[Prince]] of [[Wales]], who became known (later) as the [[Edward the Black Prince\|Black Prince]].

	Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.		Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.

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	'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].		'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

	To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates.		To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates. <br>They arranged his marriage, in 1328, to Philippa of Hainault, and they had a large family, with no less than 9 children suriviving to adulthood, well above the average for their period. His eldest son, born in 1330, was [[Edward the Black Prince]]\|Edward]] [[Prince]] of [[Wales]], who became known (later) as the [[Edward the Black Prince\|Black Prince]].

	Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.		Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.
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	In 1348 the [[Black Death]] struck [[Europe]].		In 1348 the [[Black Death]] struck [[Europe]].


			By 1376 the failure, on every front, of Edward's military efforts, and the cost of them, led to a [[parliament]] which removed many of the king's advisers (as well as of his mistress, Alice Perrers). By then, however, the Black prince was dead, and Edward was smitten with the illnesses that would kill him, and the effective government of the realm had fallen to [[John of Gaunt]]. Later in that year Edward died and, since the Black Prince had predeceased him, the kingdom fell to his grandson, [[Richard II]].

			===Retrospect===
			Edward's reign is seen, by later analysts, as being notable for a number of reasons:
			* That he ruled for 50 years, longer than anyone since [[Henry III]]
			* That his reign saw the rise of the "middle classes" (those neither feudal peasants, nor nobles), and at the same time saw the power held by the nobility increasingly concentrated into fewer hands.
			* That it was in his reign that the [[justice of the peace\|justices]] were allowed to try cases, as well as investigate them, thus establishing the fundamental level of the English common law in criminal jurisprudence

			His was also the period of the establishment of the Order of the Garter, the transfer of the legal langauge in England from Law-French (which only lawyers understood) to English, thus allowing men to make their own cases before the King's judges, and the flowering in England of the ideals of [[chivalry]] (whilst war was carried on with a ruthlessness and fervour utterly alien to that idealism).

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	'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of France''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].		'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of [[France]]''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

		⚫	To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward [[crown]]ed forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as [[regent]]s for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young [[king]], treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several [[noble]] estates.

		⚫	Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later [[execution\|executed]], for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.
⚫	To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward ~~crowned~~ forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as ~~regents~~ for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young king, treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several noble estates.

		⚫	Edward sought to establish English control over [[Scotland]] by imposing a puppet-king, in the shape of [[Edward Balliol]], son of the [[John Balliol\|John]] whom [[Edward I]] had sought to introduce as king. In the event, Balliol's weakness, and the rise of the [[House]] of [[Robert I\|Bruce]], meant that Scotland re-established its own monarchical line over the 1330s and 1340s.
⚫	Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later executed, for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.


⚫	Edward sought to establish English control over [[Scotland]] by imposing a puppet-king, in the shape of [[Edward Balliol]], son of the [[John Balliol\|John]] whom [[Edward I]] had sought to introduce as king. In the event, Balliol's weakness, and the rise of the ~~Hosue~~ of [[Robert I\|Bruce]], meant that Scotland re-established its own monarchical line over the 1330s and 1340s.

⚫	At the same time, in the aftermath of the collapse of the line of [[Capetian]] kings of [[France]], Edward ~~claiemd~~ the French throne, as last male descendant of Philip IV. The French, however, invoked [[salic law]], and made Philip VI their [[king]]. Thus began the [[Hundred Years War]] and in 1347 ~~Englsih~~ forces captured Calais, the toe-hold on the Continent which they were not to lose until [[Tudor]] times.

⚫	In 1348 the [[Black Death]] struck Europe

		⚫	At the same time, in the aftermath of the collapse of the line of [[Capetian]] kings of [[France]], Edward claimed the French throne, as last male descendant of Philip IV. The French, however, invoked [[salic law]], and made Philip VI their [[king]]. Thus began the [[Hundred Years War]] and in 1347 English forces captured Calais, the toe-hold on the Continent which they were not to lose until [[Tudor]] times.

		⚫	In 1348 the [[Black Death]] struck [[Europe]].

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'''Edward III''' was the son of [[Edward II]], who was deposed from the [[throne]] of [[England]] in 1327, by his [[Queen]], Isabella (the "''She-Wolf of France''", as she became known), and Isabella's treasonous lover, [[Roger Mortimer]].

To secure their rule, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward crowned forthwith and then, since he was only 14 years old, they set themselves up as regents for him. However Mortimer did little to secure his position with the young king, treating him with contempt, and continuing to use the power he and Isabella had amassed to secure for himself several noble estates.

Shortly before his 18th birthday, Edward, with the help of a small group of trusted companions, executed a coup d'etat, and seized power. Mortimer was arrested, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]], and later executed, for his treasons. Isabella was also arrested, but was then simply committed to custody at Castle Rising in Norfolk. She would never regain power, but little by little her imprisonment was eased and her son listened to her counsel.

Edward sought to establish English control over [[Scotland]] by imposing a puppet-king, in the shape of [[Edward Balliol]], son of the [[John Balliol|John]] whom [[Edward I]] had sought to introduce as king. In the event, Balliol's weakness, and the rise of the Hosue of [[Robert I|Bruce]], meant that Scotland re-established its own monarchical line over the 1330s and 1340s.

At the same time, in the aftermath of the collapse of the line of [[Capetian]] kings of [[France]], Edward claiemd the French throne, as last male descendant of Philip IV. The French, however, invoked [[salic law]], and made Philip VI their [[king]]. Thus began the [[Hundred Years War]] and in 1347 Englsih forces captured Calais, the toe-hold on the Continent which they were not to lose until [[Tudor]] times.

In 1348 the [[Black Death]] struck Europe

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