King Edward II of England (d. 1327)

Edward II (1284 - 1327), king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. He was the youngest son of king Edward I of England and his first wife Eleanor of Castile. He married Isabella of France.

Eleanor of Woodstock

Eleanor of Woodstock (1318 - 1355), countess of Gueldres; daughter of Edward II, king of England, and Isabella of France. She married Reginald II, count of Gueldres in 1332. In Book III of the Chronicles Froissart erroneously calls her ‘Isabella’, while in the ‘Rome’ version of Book I she is variously called ‘Jeanne’ (§ 2) or ‘Katherine’ (§ 19).

King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)

Kingdoms of England and Scotland

See England and Scotland.

King Edward II of England (d. 1327)

Edward II (1284 - 1327), king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. He was the youngest son of king Edward I of England and his first wife Eleanor of Castile. He married Isabella of France.

Philip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)

Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.

Twelf Peers of France

King of France

Rheims

Rheims on the river Vesle, France, administrative centre of the Marne canton, was unsuccessfully besieged by Edward III for a month at the end of 1359, as described in Book I of the Chronicles.

France

The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).

King Philip IV the Fair of France (d. 1314)

Philip IV of France (1268 - 1314), called 'the Fair', king of France, king of Navarre through his wife Jeanne I of Navarre; son of Philippe III, king of France, and Isabella of Aragon. He married queen Jeanne of Navarre.