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unusual facts about King Edward I



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.

Builth Castle

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

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.

Gwenllian of Wales

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

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.

River Neath

Here it passes close to the Norman castle, visited by King Henry II, King John and King Edward I.

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.


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1305 in Scotland

5 August - John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to King Edward I, captures William Wallace and turns him over to English soldiers at Robroyston

Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩

The Welsh name Llewelyn appears in older English texts as Thlewelyn (Rolls of Parliament (Rotuli parliamentorum) I. 463/1, King Edward I or II), and Fluellen (Shakespeare, Henry V).