A straight question and answer quiz about Edward II – yup – I’ve been busy writing about Edward’s favourites, his wife’s scandalous family and the difficulties of royal marriages – Edward’s wife was the first to say ‘there’s three of us in this marriage…’

1. Where was Edward II born? According to legend his father offered Edward to a country because he spoke no English.
2. Who were Edward II’s parents?
3. In which castle is Edward supposed to have been killed in 1327? Ian Mortimer presented a theory that he was not assassinated.
4. Edward granted the earldom of Cornwall to which of his friends much to his father’s irritation?
5. Who negotiated Edward’s marriage?
6. What were the nobles called who sought to reform the royal court and get rid of Edward’s unpopular male favourite?
7. Which Anglo-Scottish battle did Edward II famously lose?
8. Edward had his cousin Thomas of Lancaster executed after Thomas lost which battle in Yorkshire?
9. Which father and son with the same name gained notoriety as the king’s favourites?
10. Who was Edward’s wife? She is the only medieval queen known to have had an adulterous relationship.
11. Who did she have an affair with?
12. Which part of the country did Edward’s wife invade with a very small army in 1326?
13. When one of Edward’s hated favourites was executed in Bristol, what was his body fed to?
14. Where is Edward II buried? Can you give the place more than one name? Which other disposed ruler is buried in the same place?
15. Name Edward II’s children.
16. Which earl was Edward’s half brother who was executed by Edward’s queen and her lover?
17. Which area of France did Edward and his wife’s family disagree about?
18. What unusual beast did Edward keep at Langley?
19. And what kind of pet did he take on campaign to Scotland?
20. Which murdered Tudor playwright wrote a play about the murdered monarch ensuring that we remember all the scandal?