English Kingdoms

Edward II

Born in 1284 
Ascended in 1307
Died in 1327(murdered), aged 43 
Reigned for 20 years
Married to Isabella of France bearing 2 sons and 2 daughters.

Edward II was a good man but a bad king. He found it impossible to deal with the intrigues and lies of court and was not tough enough to control his noblemen. 

He married Isabella of France in 1308, with whom he produced four children including an heir to the throne. However, it was likely that the king was bisexual since he preferred the company of his close friend Piers Gaveston. Piers had been banished from the realm by Edward I, but he returned to England after the king's death and ingratiated himself into the new king's company. The king gave Gaveston so many favours and so much power (even regency of England) that the king's wife and various noblemen conspired against Gaveston and had him beheaded.
 
When the king found another younger favourite, Hugh Despenser, the Queen fled to France where she lived openly with a commoner Roger Mortimer. Edward became very unpopular with his people: they believed that he gave his favourites too much power and allowed them to influence his decisions to their own benefit. So, when Isabella returned with an army from France, the people flocked to her. She was found to be an evil queen with a horrible grudge against her husband; when an uprising wanted to reinstate Edward she ordered him killed without marking him and so some cruel creature put him to death by the use of a red hot poker inserted up the rectum. 

Despenser received an even more horrible end; his genitalia were cut off and his intestines cut from his body and placed in a fire in front of his dying body. Isabella was in the end deposed by her own 17-year-old son, Edward III, who captured her castle in secret and had Mortimer put to death for his audacity.