Jess Browning

King Edward the Second of England Jess Browning

The purpose of this book is to tie a lot of loose ends together and focus on England's King Edward the Second who was active in conflicts with France and the beginning of the Hundred Years war in the 14th century. He was incarcerated under Guard of our supposed maternal ancestor John Maltravers. King Edward II was murdered in 1327 while under Maltravers watch. It is an interesting, historical and informative story that was put into a play by William Shakespeare's associate, Christopher Marlowe. The author was introduced to Marlowe in a freshman English class where he did a paper on the playwrite. The play is in the public domain and is included in this story after editing and bringing it up to date with modern words and spelling. Since it was scanned a long time ago, the play was difficult to read and in the editing process, some changes were made but the intent of the story is the same. My wife Vicki and I traveled by surface transport to the western Cotswold's in England in October and November of 2016 to check out some of the places where I had done research on the family.