25 Facts About Edward III

Edward III outlived his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, and the throne passed to his grandson, Richard II.

Edward III was a temperamental man but capable of unusual clemency.

Edward III was in many ways a conventional king whose main interest was warfare.

Edward III was reluctant to leave the country, as discontent was brewing domestically, particularly over his relationship with the favourite Hugh Despenser the Younger.

The young Edward III was accompanied by his mother Isabella, who was the sister of King Charles, and was meant to negotiate a peace treaty with the French.

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Edward III was not content with the peace agreement made in his name, but the renewal of the war with Scotland originated in private, rather than royal initiative.

Edward III reinstated Balliol on the throne and received a substantial amount of land in southern Scotland.

Stratford claimed that Edward III had violated the laws of the land by arresting royal officers.

Edward III defaulted on Florentine loans of 1,365,000 florins, resulting in the ruin of the lenders.

In 1360, therefore, Edward III accepted the Treaty of Bretigny, whereby he renounced his claims to the French throne, but secured his extended French possessions in full sovereignty.

Middle years of Edward III's reign were a period of significant legislative activity.

Reign of Edward III coincided with the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the papacy at Avignon.

Central to Edward III's policy was reliance on the higher nobility for purposes of war and administration.

King Edward III responded to the ensuing ridicule of the crowd by tying the garter around his own knee with the words honi soit qui mal y pense.

Increasingly, Edward III began to rely on his sons for the leadership of military operations.

Edward III was followed by the vigorous CharlesV, who enlisted the help of the capable Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France.

Edward III did not have much to do with any of this; after around 1375 he played a limited role in the government of the realm.

In 1376, Edward III signed letters patent on the order of succession to the crown, citing in second position John of Gaunt, born in 1340, but ignoring Philippa, daughter of Lionel, born in 1338.

Edward III enjoyed unprecedented popularity in his own lifetime, and even the troubles of his later reign were never blamed directly on the king himself.

The Whig historians of a later age preferred constitutional reform to foreign conquest and accused Edward III of ignoring his responsibilities to his own nation.

Edward III was not a statesman, though he possessed some qualifications which might have made him a successful one.

Edward III was a warrior; ambitious, unscrupulous, selfish, extravagant and ostentatious.

Edward III felt himself bound by no special duty, either to maintain the theory of royal supremacy or to follow a policy which would benefit his people.

Edward III had been accused of endowing his younger sons too liberally and thereby promoting dynastic strife culminating in the Wars of the Roses.

Edward III seems to have been unusually devoted to his wife, Queen Philippa.

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