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Edward I [a] (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland , and from 1254 to 1306 ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king .
The monarch's right to royal fish was recognized by a statute enacted in 1324, during the reign of Edward II, that applied to whales and sturgeon. [3] [4] According to Henry de Bracton, de balena vero sufficit ... si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam: "the king owns the head of the whale, the queen owns the tail". [5]
Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir to the throne following the death of his older brother Alphonso.
Similar laws reserving sturgeon for the king were enforced in late medieval Denmark. An archaeological example of sturgeon in a royal context comes from the wreck of the Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden, which sank in June 1495 while King Hans sailed from Copenhagen to Kalmar, Sweden for a diplomatic summit. Archaeologists recovered from ...
Edward, King of Portugal (Portuguese: Duarte, 1391–1438) Edward Bruce (Middle Irish: Edubard a Briuis , c. 1275 –1318), High King of Ireland Edward Balliol ( c. 1282 –1364), King of Scots, considered a usurper
The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site located in Gwynedd, [nb 1] Wales. It includes the castles of Beaumaris and Harlech and the castles and town walls of Caernarfon and Conwy. UNESCO considers the sites to be the "finest examples of late 13th century and early 14th century military ...
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453–1471), only child of Henry VI Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales ( c. 1473 or 1476 – 1484), only legitimate child of Richard III Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (1739–1767), grandson of George II and brother of George III
Lord Edward's Crusade, [2] sometimes called the Ninth Crusade, was a military expedition to the Holy Land under the command of Edward, Duke of Gascony (later king as Edward I) in 1271–1272. In practice an extension of the Eighth Crusade , it was the last of the Crusades to reach the Holy Land before the fall of Acre in 1291 brought an end to ...