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15 unusual facts about Edward I of England


1774 in Great Britain

2 May - The Society of Antiquaries of London open the coffin of King Edward I and discover that his body has been perfectly preserved for 467 years.

Arnold Fitz Thedmar

He appealed for help to Henry III, and again to his son and successor Edward I, with the result that his liability was diminished.

Blackfriars, London

Edward I gave permission to rebuild London's city wall, which lay between the river and Ludgate Hill, around their area.

Ely Place

It is still standing today, and is the only surviving building in London from the reign of Edward I (1239–1307) though it was badly damaged during World War II.

Fargate

Dating of the well indicates that it was probably dug around the time of the rebuilding of Sheffield Castle in stone, in 1270, and the granting of Sheffield's Market Charter by Edward I in 1296.

Francis Hurt

This was on or near the site of the "Earl's Chamber", a hunting lodge belonging to Edmund Earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I.

Greenhill, Evesham

King Henry's son, Lord Edward, later Edward I used it as his base in the battle from where he launched his attack on Simon de Montford's forces who were gathered around Evesham Abbey.

Gwenllian of Wales

A few months after Gwenllian's birth, north Wales was encircled by the English army of King Edward I.

Hammer of the Scots

Edward I of England who had Hammer of the Scots engraved on his tombstone.

Hatton Garden

Ely Place, off Hatton Garden, is home to St Etheldreda's Church – one of the oldest Roman Catholic church in England and one of only two remaining buildings in London dating from the reign of Edward I.

Jean I de Grailly

In 1262 he was already a knight in the household of Prince Edward, the king's heir and future King Edward I of England.

Maud Chaworth

However, because she was an infant, she became a ward of Eleanor of Castile, Queen consort of King Edward I of England.

Richard of Pudlicott

Richard of Pudlicott (died 1305), also known as Richard de Podelicote (or Pudlicote, or Dick Puddlecote), was an English wool merchant who, down on his luck, became an infamous burglar of King Edward I's Wardrobe treasury at Westminster Abbey in 1303.

Robert of Beverley

In 1273 Robert had charge of the making of the tomb of Edward I's infant son John.

Traitors' Gate

The gate was built by Edward I, to provide a water gate entrance to the Tower, part of St. Thomas's Tower, which was designed to provide additional accommodation for the royal family.


Alexander Abingdon

These figures represent Queen Eleanor of Castile and they were carved for the Waltham Cross, one of the twelve monumental crosses commissioned by Eleanor’s husband, King Edward I, after the Queen’s death in Harby, Nottinghamshire in 1290.

Attributed arms

The reason for the triple-crown symbol is unknown, but it was associated with other pre-Norman kings, with the seal of Magnus II of Sweden, with the relics of the Three Wise Men in Cologne (which led to the three crowns in the seal of the University of Cologne), and with the grants of Edward I of England to towns which were symbolized by three crowns in the towns' arms.

Auchencairn

There is evidence of human habitation of the area since the Mesolithic period, but the first written record of Auchencairn occurs from 1305 in a charter of Edward I in which 'Aghencarne' is listed among lands belonging to Dundrennan Abbey.

Bernard Drake

Sir Bernard Drake was an 11th-generation descendant of Edward I through his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Grenville, of Stowe, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.

Builth Castle

Builth Castle was a castle built under King Edward I, today an abandoned site just outside Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.

Charing Cross tube station

It shows scenes from the construction of the original Charing Cross, memorial of Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I.

Charles Crouch

On May 18, 1921, in Vicksburg, Mississippi Charles Crouch was married to Nancy Carol Brabston, daughter of a prominent Mississippi planter and direct descendant of the Earl of Arundel, the Duke of Norfolk, and King Edward I of England.

Clan Fleming

Nine Flemings are known to have signed the Ragman Roll of 1296, and therefore have pledged alliance to Edward I, although Sir Robert Fleming was among the first supporters of Robert the Bruce.

Congé d'Elire

This arrangement was confirmed by subsequent statutes passed in the reigns of Edward I and Edward III respectively, and the practice was ultimately settled in its present form by the statute Payment of Annates, etc., 1534.

Dolgarrog

In the 1350s the Black Death took a heavy toll in the lower Conwy Valley, particularly among the bond tenants regulated by the King's officers from Aberconwy, Edward I's new English borough.

Foliejon Park

Foliejon was originally known as Belestre, a hunting lodge granted by King Edward I to John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, later co-regent for his son, King Edward II.

Headcorn

There are records from the reigns of Edward I, Edward III and Henry IV, relating to the need to repair this bridge and Hawkenbury Bridge.

John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings

Hastings fought from the 1290s in the Scottish, Irish and French wars of King Edward I and was later Seneschal of Aquitaine.

Lancashire Day

It commemorates the day in 1295 when Lancashire sent its first representatives to Parliament by King Edward I of England to attend what later became known as The Model Parliament.

Margaret Wade Labarge

She is best known for two of her books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.

Mary Bruce

By order of King Edward I of England, she was then held prisoner in an iron or wooden cage exposed to the public view in Roxburgh Castle.

Milton Regis

Edward Hasted notes that a document of 21 Edward I (1259–60) records the hundred as being the King's hundred.

Murdostoun

In 1296 Sir Richard Scott married the daughter and heiress of Murdostoun and became the owner of the properties of Murdostoun and Hardwood, and as feudal lord swore fealty to Edward I of England.

Nettleham

On 7 February 1301 King Edward I of England was staying in the Bishop's Palace when he created his son Edward (later Edward II of England) as the first Prince of Wales.

Philip IV of France

The outbreak of hostilities with England in 1294 was the inevitable result of the competitive expansionist monarchies, triggered by a secret Franco-Scottish pact of mutual assistance against Edward I, who was Philip's brother-in-law, having married Philip's sister Margaret; inconclusive campaigns for the control of Gascony to the southwest of France were fought in 1294–98 and 1300–03.

Qaqun

In December of 1271, as Baybars was battling the Mongols in Aleppo, the Crusader forces of King Edward raided Qaqun, but were quickly fought back by the forces of the Mamluk emirs.

Robert Baston

He is said to have been taken to Scotland by Edward I to sing his praises at the siege of Stirling (1304); and, according to Bale, he is Trivet's authority for his story of Edward's rash approach to the beleaguered garrison.

Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk

This earl is the hero of a famous altercation with King Edward I in 1297, which arose from the king's command that Bigod should serve against the King of France in Gascony, while Edward himself went to Flanders.

Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche

The medieval architect and castle builder for Edward I of England, Master James of Saint George, also known as Jacques de Saint-Georges d'Espéranche, is believed to have been associated with the construction of the castle.

Scone Palace

When Edward I of England carried off the Stone of Scone to Westminster Abbey in 1296, the Coronation Chair that still stands in the abbey was specially made to fit over it.

Simon Montacute

He had two elder brothers, John, who died in August 1317, and William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and a younger brother, Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu, who married Alice of Norfolk, daughter of Thomas of Brotherton and granddaughter of Edward I.

Stracathro

At Stracathro on 7 July 1296, John Balliol publicly admitted the errors of his ways and confirmed his reconciliation with Edward I.

Troy weight

Charles Moore Watson (1844–1916) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures (also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies "troni ponderacionem"—which the Public Record Commissioners translates as "troy weight".

Westminster Stone theory

In his attempts to conquer Scotland, Edward I of England invaded in 1296 at the head of an army.