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Two main problems faced Edward III in his relations with the nobility during the first decade of his rule: the need to ease the political tensions inherited from the i32os and to win noble support for war in both Scotland and France. Upon his accession to independent power in 1330, the young Edward, with a titled nobility weakened by line ...
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Legislation
The middle years of Edward's reign was a period of significant legislative activity. Perhaps the best known piece of legislation was the Statute of Labourers of 1351, which addressed the labor shortage problem caused by the Black Death. The statute fixed wages at their pre-plague level and checked peasant mobility by asserting that lords had first claim on their men's services. In spite of concerted efforts to uphold the statute, it eventually failed due to competition among landowners for la...
Parliament and taxation
Parliament as a representative institution was already well established by the time of Edward III, but the reign was nevertheless central to its development. Parliament's role in deposing Edward II and in confirming Edward III's own succession, had also strengthened its authority. During this period membership in the English baronage, formerly a somewhat indistinct group, became restricted to those who received a personal summons to parliament. This happened as parliament gradually developed...
Chivalry and national identity
Central to Edward III's policy was reliance on the higher nobility for purposes of war and administration. While his father had regularly been in conflict with a great portion of his peerage, Edward III successfully created a spirit of camaraderie between himself and his greatest subjects. Both Edward I and Edward II had conducted a policy of limitation, allowing the creation of few peerages during the sixty years preceding Edward III's reign. The young king reversed this policy when, in 1337...
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. Edward's contemporary Jean Froissart wrote in his Chronicles that "His like had not been seen since the days of King Arthur".This view persisted for awhile, but, with time, the image of the king c...
Allmand, Christopher. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300-c.1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0521264995Ayton, Andrew. Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Aristocracy Under Edward III. University of Rochester Press, 1994). ISBN 0851155685Barber, Richard. "Edwards III's Round Table." History Today57(8) (Aug 2007): 12-18.Bothwell, J. S. The Age of Edward III. York Medieval Press, 2001. ISBN 1903153069All links retrieved November 20, 2021. 1. The Medieval Sourcebook has some good sources relating to the reign of Edward III: 1.1. The Ordinance of Labourers, 1349 1.2. The Statute of Laborers, 1351 1.3. Thomas Walsingham’s account of the Good Parliament of 1376 2. Man of War: Edward III, King of England myArmoury.com
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For Edward III at the outset of his continental adventure, much would depend upon the extent to which he could persuade the nobility and gentry to support his war with their swords. Here was a large pool of potential military manpower, men born into a warrior caste, imbued with the chivalric mentalité and trained in arms and horsemanship from ...
May 9, 2024 · Edward III grew up amid struggles between his father and a number of barons who were attempting to limit the king’s power and to strengthen their own role in governing England. His mother, repelled by her husband’s treatment of the nobles and disaffected by the confiscation of her English estates by his supporters, played an important role ...
United Kingdom - Edward III, Monarchy, Reformation: Edward III achieved personal power when he overthrew his mother’s and Mortimer’s dominance in 1330 at the age of 17. Their regime had been just as corrupt as that of the Despensers but less constructive.
The anonymous late sixteenth-century history play, The Reign of King Edward III (which has been attributed, with some plausibility, to William Shakespeare), gave Edward's achievements in war a new relevance to contemporaries by comparing the battle of Sluys with the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Patronage was central to medieval kingship, and a crucial facet of royal power. This book, the first in-depth examination of this crucial facet of royal power, offers a detailed analysis of how Edward III, one of the most successful and, to use a modern term, charismatic of medieval English monarchs, used royal favour to create a 'new nobility' and to reward and control the established peerage.
