HIST 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Crisis, Piers Gaveston, 1St Earl Of Cornwall, Ordinances Of 1311
11 Apr 2015
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Edward ii, edward iii, and the hundred years war. At the end of edward i"s reign, we see some systemic problems arising. One of the issues he"s dealing with his finance. Up until the end of his reign, there"s a bankruptcy problem. Scotland had the wars of independence from the 1290 until after the death of edward. He had invaded scotland, but the scots had fought back. When he died at the northern tip of. This remains a kind of open problem, he dies and the situation goes downhill after the next reign. The third issues are the barons, which are about to change their identity to being called nobles. He had figured out a way to deal with the barons using the method of parliament, which was a smart move to seem as if he"s sharing power without necessarily doing so. By the 14th century, relations with the barons were becoming more and more strained.
