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The following is verbatim from Carr's ''Dictionary of English Kings, Consorts, Pretenders, Usurpers, un-natural Claimants |
The following is verbatim from Carr's ''Dictionary of English Kings, Consorts, Pretenders, Usurpers, un-natural Claimants |
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:'''Edward I''', (Longshanks, Malleus Scotorum), d.1307 aged 67, of a violent flux. He was unusually tall and had curly hair, sparkling back eyes, one drooping eyelid and a stammer. His first wife, [[Eleanor of Castile]], bore 15 children and inspired an astonishing progress of memorial crosses, built while he was enjoying a second wife, 42 years his junior. This [[choleric]] man banished the [[Jew]]s, planned several new towns, stole the [[Stone of Scone]], subdued [[Wales]] and, at death's approach, still consumed with a lifelong antipathy towards [[Scotland|Scotsmen]] ordered that, after his heart had been despatched to [[Jerusalem]], his bones must be borne before an invading [[army]]. |
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Two of the sites of his Eleanor crosses were at Waltham Abbey, north of [[London]], and at Charing Cross in London (original now sadly lost). He married Eleanor when she was 10 according to Carr. |
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His son, [[Edward II]], bears the distinction of being the first [[England|English]] [[Prince of Wales]], as well as the first [[king]] to be deposed in England since before the [[Norman conquest|Conquest]], and the subject of a complicated murder, allegedly at the arrangement of his wife, involving a [[garderobe]], a nether passage, and hot metal. |
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Succeeded by:<br>[[Edward II]] |
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Revision as of 12:58, 14 June 2007
The following is verbatim from Carr's Dictionary of English Kings, Consorts, Pretenders, Usurpers, un-natural Claimants
