#edward iii

[illustratus]

The Battle of Sluys (1340) by Peter Dennis

[bookholichany]

David Tennant in Shakespeare plays

[As you like it, Measure for measure, love's labor lost, Richard II, Hamlet, The Comedy of errors, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, much Ado about nothing, Macbeth]

P.s. he had also been in Edward III as Edward the black prince and the midsummer night's dream as Lysander/flute but I couldn't find any pictures from those plays. Also he had taken part in many audio performances from Archangel archive full Shakespeare plays collection to BBC radio Macbeth 2022.

[asterionides]

Law Reporting in Britain: Proceedings of the Eleventh British Legal History Conference (1995), ed. Chantal Stebbings

obsessed with this supposed 14th century counterfeiter who forged the king's seal and then got out of it by showing an (also implied to be forged) royal pardon.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Was Edward II murdered via red-hot poker up the butt?

No proof, local myth gone wild, super dumb way to do a secret murder

Idk man Izzy and Roggie M. totally would have gotten drunk and ordered it so

Voting ended onOct 25, 2025

[malspinningyarns]

The Sons of Edward III

Edward the Black Prince: you just had to take your sweet time to get married and have kids because you were too invested in warfare, didn’t you?

Lionel of Antwerp: just because you die young doesn’t mean your descendants can’t cause drama later

John of Gaunt: he may be an arrogant, ambitious asshole with a messy love life that a lot of people hated, but you can’t say that man didn’t know how to hustle for his kids. And he didn’t try to usurp his nephew.

Edmund of Langley: just because you don’t care about politics doesn’t mean your descendants can’t cause drama later

Thomas of Woodstock: tried to be John of Gaunt, got his ass handed to him by John of Gaunt

[une-sanz-pluis]

In the English historical context, Philippa’s partnership with her husband was in some ways a reaction to the disintegration of her in-laws’ marriage in the 1320s, when Isabella of France led a coup against her own husband with the help of his relatives and nobles. Up until their marital breakdown, Isabella was portrayed in ways similar to Philippa, as an intercessor and political peace weaver. Edward III had to be careful, as well, as the tumultuous rule of his father did not offer him an easy kingship to follow; he needed to be able to embody the authority and might of a king who was not influenced by favourites at the court, but who also did not tip over from authoritative to tyrannical. His righteous anger thus needed to be tempered by the only acceptable figure, his wife and queen. In order to re-establish the prestige of the English royal family, Edward and Philippa had to present themselves to the world as a united couple, finding a balance between justice and mercy.

Jordan M. Schoonover, '“Wishing to Defend Her Country”: Philippa of Hainaut, Royal Marital Partnership, and the Battle of Neville’s Cross (1346)', Royal Studies Journal vol. 10 no. 2 (2023)

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Burgesses of Calais

Artist: Henry Holiday (English, 1839–1927)

Date: 1859

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England

Description

"The Burgesses of Calais"; the subject is derived from an account in Froissart's 'Chronicles' of Edward III laying siege to Calais, 3rd September 1346.

[wonder-worker]

"Contrary to what might be expected of a low-born mistress, it is clear from the possessions found at her London home that [Alice Perrers] had a perfectly conventional attitude to religion and shared the literary tastes of her contemporaries at court. Her image of the Virgin Mary in a tabernacle and coffer containing a primer and a book of the life of St Margaret would not look out of place in any noble lady’s household. Moreover, Alice’s possession of numerous religious vestments and ceremonial items confirms that she had a private chapel, which was presumably attended to by her chaplain Nicholas Rounhey, who lived in one of the tenements at the New Inn. Such items included an alb, stole, fanon and amice of blue silk, a dorser of arras, a wooden altar with a pax, a silk altar-cloth embroidered with a cross, and a chalice of copper gilt. Most interestingly, there is also clear evidence that Alice received items from the king for her religious devotion in the form of a chasuble with the prince’s arms and a case for a corporal with the arms of the king of England and France. In the great wardrobe accounts it is also recorded that in April 1376 Edward gave her a crucifix and an altar front embroidered with the image of Mary and St John standing upon the earth (i.e. the stabat mater) made of gold and silk."

— Laura Tompkins, The Uncrowned Queen: Alice Perrers, Edward III and Political Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England, 1360-1377 (PhD Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013)