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Edward II was the first English king deposed after the Norman Conquest. Standard history says he was then murdered. But was he?
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Magna Carta, signed by King John in 1215, did not settle the disputes between the monarch and his barons. John's son, Henry III, reigned for more than 50 turbulent years in which the barons…
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Henry V, hero of Agincourt (1415), died in 1422 leaving his
9-month old son heir to the crown. After decades of war with France, England's economic
and political turmoil came to a head. Magnates…
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