ANNIVERSARIES
21 SEPTEMBER 1327
Edward II dies in mysterious circumstances
The overthrown king may have been murdered while in prison
During the night of 23-24 September 1327, the young Edward III received a messenger informing him that his father, the former king who had been forced to abdicate earlier that year, had died two days ago. Edward II was being held prisoner at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire on the orders of Roger Mortimer, who had seized power in England with his lover, Edward’s queen, Isabella, and ruled in the name of her teenage son, the new king.
The circumstances were mysterious, if not suspicious, and have been the subject of debate ever since. It has even been mooted that Edward
