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Finished the UFO chapter! Like the slice of life quality to this book alongside the absurdity of the main characters situation so far and how he seems so go with the flow !

Edward is pushing his will on Scotland too hard. After the death of Margaret (maid of Norway) a power vacuum opened in Scotland for Edward to pick a vassal king. John Balliol was appointed king and was forced to let England appeal to Scottish cases of law, which was a step too far.

So Edward’s has been pretty naughty, he’s passed a bunch of laws and built a lot of castle and taxed his people the most in the Middle Ages to re-vamp a crusade. He has beat the welsh and now the Scottish and the French wanna beat him up.

Edward shows his strategy with fighting and beating the welsh princes Dafydd and Llywelyn. 1282 Dafydd took over Haward castle by surprise as a reaction to welsh defeat 5 years prior where his brother Llywelyn was easily defeated due to Edward’s plan to clear out to forest on his way to wales to prevent ambush.

King Edward waged war against two welsh princes, Llywelyn and Dafydd. First Edward strategically ended Llywlyns uprising by cutting a path through the forests to prevent ambushes. Then built castle and created strict laws in welsh territory. As a response 5 years later in 1282, Dafydd appeared unexpected at Hawrden castle and seized it. This lead to a war that ended in both brother being beheaded and shown on spikes.

Edward tried to crusade but failed, united england and got stabbed. Got crowned king and was obsessed with aurthurian legend

Henry 3 completely lost power and became a figurehead following the Provisions of Oxford and his homage to king Louis 9 of France. De Montfort lead a rebellion to take control of England, but lord Edward ended up defeating him at Evesham and cutting off his head and ballz. England also officially gave up any land in France.

Read much more of Henry’s reign. He was 28 and married a 12 year old. Had his first kid when his wife was 16. (Manz was creepin) Anyway, he was a terrible general and failed a campaign to retake old French land. Too broke to crusade, he vowed to conquer Sicily and instill his 12 year old son Edmund as king. He also said if he didn’t uphold this vow the pope could excommunicate England from god. He low-key sucks.

Henry the third has taken the place of John, he was 9 when John died so a minority led England for a really long time for him to become king. Because he lacked a father figure Henry the third had an obsession with Edward the confessor created a cult around the man.

King John gets rebelled against by his barons who overtake London, which caused a leave to be made by the Magna Carta. Funnily, John quickly refuted the Magna Carta and got the Pope to discredit it. French king Phillip invaded London and civil war broke out as John caught dysentery and died. He wasn’t buried with his Norman ancestors.

Chapter covers the downfall of king John, hermit Peter of Wakefield had a vision that John will not last on the throne past 1212 and everyone believed him. The king locked up him to wait to see if he was right. Surprisingly John’s legal and taxes system benefit the English people with no titles, because royal law was clear compared to feudal barons. However the barons started to plot killing John. He caught them.

Chapter “Cruel Master” shows how brutal king John was to his people. He taxed and tortured the Jews, murdered one of his barons wife and son and used military might to gain complete control of wales, Ireland, and scottland. He also has been completely excommunicated from the church, which he used to his own advantage by acquiring clergy buildings and wealth. Man sucked the whole place dry.

So since last time, king John has tried to raise an army and navy to retake the lands he lost. No one would join him even though he had the resources. So instead he got heavily involved in Englands justice system and started heavily taxing England and overcharging for royal trials. He also had a son Henry 3

King Jon lost all the land can France and murdered his cousin aurthur with his bare hands. He sucks and left Normandy to go back to England

Richard had one hell of Carrier of a king and knight, crusading and coming back to fight off the French king and his younger brother. He also had an insane journey back from the crusades, he was captured by the Holy Roman Empire where he actually made friends that helped install Otto as the new emperor. Sadly he died in a stupid way and John soft sword took the thrown and conceded so much land to king Phillip.

Henry the second is dead, his third son Richard the lionheart took his place and set off to crusade. He married another princess and not Phillips sister. He conquers Cyprus then sold it like a baller. He got crazy clout for winning the siege in Acre, and was gaining respect from Saladin. However he got some disease that made him really sick and lose some hair and teeth supposedly.

Henry 2 finished out his reign and defeated all his adversaries. Even his own children waged war on him and he won. He also got Becket brutally murdered

Henry the second should have never let Becket move from chancellor to archbishop, he lowkey messed it all up

Just finished Henry 2nd’s military campaign