ELWARD II
BE.
"wo nn Me English triumphed over the tremendous odds against
making the ench King was captured and conveyed to England,
Ya Pa 8ecom royal captive in Edward’s possession, .
prevalence ar TUCO of Kiro years, war broke out afresh. During the
Edwards an besbilities France suffered severely from the ravages of
Bretiony Peace was made by the Yreaty of Troat
to the Prenel Klar consented to renounNce his claim 6 Bpg m
Calnis Polten. „Srown, m condition that his rights in .
stipulated ne nn Guienne were fully acknowledged. It was further
sum equal ko King John was to be ransomed_ by the payment of a
Never paid one and a half million pounds sterling. The money was
later. ‚ and John remained in prison until his death. four years
a Sb, Mo lnck Prince weakly ‚yielded to the solicitations of
Subjects, Tr N edro of Castile, to aid him against his rebellious
little Desider Ha expedition the English Prince gained The Spanish
his "— A Ory, Pedro 8 enemies were defeated, but EDEN
This failure % vepay Edward’s expenses was not kept. .
held by En ln to heaping increased taxation on the French provinces
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help. rn & y’rench subjeets now turned to the King of France for
bya har kn M all its horrors spread once more over France. Led
Victorious - ıt named Du Guesclin, the French were
the Englisch rt after provinee was wrested from
Were reduce . TE 1374 their actual Possessions in France
17. The Bl 1 ewdemnx, Bayomne, and Calals,
health in der K Prince, who had returned to England with shattered
Are the unwise ding a 1376. The ‚blots on his memory Death of
& Wholesale ı 56 expedition into Spain related above, and. Biaek
his final X Nassacre of the people of Limoges just before Prince
ever $ . a from France, "The latter deod, how- )
Black Prien without provocation ; and the general reputation of the
8. Bewant Mat ofa Ye modest, and magnanimous knight.
Came under the den, Philippa of Hainault, was NOW dead, and he
death of the Bl w. influence of a woman named Alice Perrers, The
Powerful shock, Prince not only gave the aged King a Last days
Quüillity of th © ut also seriously disturbed the tran- of
Lancaster A ingdom. His third son, John, Duke of qward IM.
Chent, as Se od from his birthpluce John of Caunt, or
Bon, Te En and with good reason, of aspiring to the SUCCES-
Now TeMained 70 is foreign conquests had jiassed away, and nothing
length, in I ut the heavy load of debt which they had created, At
Years, His 0 1377, Edward died, having reigned upwards of fifty
Gaunt ”); da ag sons were John, Duke of Lancaster (‘John of
;» Edmund Duke cc" 2 ud Thomas, Duke of ((Houceste>
