Ordinances of 1311
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The Ordinances of 1311 were a series of regulations imposed upon King Edward II by the peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England to restrict the power of the English monarch. The twenty-one signato
Edward I blessing his son – the future Edward II – prince of Wales.
Scene from the Battle of Bannockburn in the Holkham Bible, 1327–35
Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, was an English magnate, and one of the principal opponents of King Edward II and his favourite, Piers Gaveston. Guy was the son of William de Beauchamp, the fir
Ordinances of 1311
…king's reign, but by the time of the Ordinances it is clear that something had negatively affected his opinion of King Edward. Lancaster's main ally was Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Warwick was the most fervently and consistently antagonistic of the earls, and remained so until his early death in 1315. Other earls were more amenable…
Guy de Beauchamp standing over the decapitated body of Piers Gaveston. From the 15th-century Rous Rolls
Seal of Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, as appended to the Barons' Letter, 1301. The arms shown are those of Newburgh, the family of his predecessors the Beaumont Earls of Warwick. The Beauchamps frequently quartered their own arms with those of Newburgh, on occasion placing the latter in the 1st & 4th quarters, positions of greatest honour.
Warwick was in constant opposition to King Edward II. Great seal of Edward II.