Eduard 1 Biography
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The news that he has now become the full king of England should have cheered up to Edward after his failure in Palestine. Having established himself on the throne, the new king turned his attention to Wales, in which the local ruler Llyvelin AP Griffid actively mutated water, knocked out the Welsh barons to an uprising against the British. In the summer of the year, the thousandth English army entered Wales and quickly defeated the enemy troops.
Llyvelin himself soon surrendered, refused in favor of England from most of his possessions, and for the remaining oath to Edward, thereby making the English king the actual master of all Welsh lands.
However, 5 years later, in the year, Llyvelin again organized a rebellion in the country, during which his people cut out most English proteges. Eduard again introduced the troops into Wales and now finally calmed down the rebellious prince, killing him in one of the battles. The death of Llyvelin was the last blow to Wales’s independence, which has now finally depended on England.
The death of Llyvelin in the year to Eduard with the call for help was addressed by the Scottish nobility, who arrived at that time in the fierce crisis of power. After the death of King Alexander III, who did not leave the heirs, the barons chose his 6-year-old granddaughter Margaret, who was living with his mother in Norway, to the throne. However, the girl did not suffer a heavy road and died during a trip.
After her death, the right to the Scottish throne said as many as 14 applicants, and, not understanding how to resolve all this, local barons invited Eduard the arbitration judge and choose a new king to them. Eduard agreed and, according to the results of the two -year Great Libra, chose the new king of Scotland John Balliola. This procedure seemed to be just a formality, but Edward decided to take real power over the Scottish king and introduced himself with him as his usual vassal, constantly calling him to his carpet in England.
In the end, Baliol decided to stop to endure the humiliation and openly opposed Edward, having concluded a military alliance with France, which at that time waged a war with the British to control the trade routes through the La-Channel. Eduard, in response to this, gathered the army and the next year sent it on a trip to Scotland in order to punish his vassal. The news of terror quickly spread throughout the country and provoked the Scots to response at return - their sabotage group attacked one of the cities in Northumbria, where it burned alive in the church of school boys.
Over the next three weeks, the British progressively advanced deep into the country, over and over again defeating the enemy in battles. In July, King Balliola grabbed his own nobility and handed it over to Eduard, who threw the overthrown monarch into the Tower, and he took his place on the throne and introduced direct English administration in Scotland. Of course, Eduard was not going to stay in Scotland forever, and therefore, transferring control of the country to the hands of his proteges, he retreated back to England.
In the year in Scotland, an uprising broke out against the English government, which was headed by the notorious William Wallace "Brave Heart." The British attacked the Scots from two side, turning their cavalry to flight, after which they shot enemy infantry from the bows. As soon as the Scottish construction fell apart and began to retreat, the English cavalry entered them and defeated the enemy.
Despite the victory, Eduard was not able to regain control of Scotland, and he had to send the English army to extinguish the centers of rebellions there over and over again. Mel Gibson in the role of William Woles in a caricature comedy about the Scottish uprising "Brave Heart". After the execution of William Wallace in the year, the Banner of Resistance was taken by the former supporter of the British Robert Bruce, who was crowned in March under the name of King Robert I Scunted by Skun.
And again, Edward I gathered the army and went on the next trip to Scotland, which became his last business on Earth. The king was already 68 years old at that time, and he was endured endlessly. In July, his army, following the army of Bruce, defeated the camp near the city of Burg-Bai-Sands, where Eduard died in the arms of his servants during breakfast on July 7. The king’s body was sent home and buried in Westminster Abbey.
The case of the capture of Scotland was to continue his heir Edward II, whose reign resulted in one of the most bloody periods in the history of England.