Edward I succeeds to the English throne
November 20, 1272
On crusade in the Holy Land when his father Henry III died, the tall, hot-tempered prince was proclaimed king in absentia. Edward would take nearly two years to return home. His reign would reshape English law, conquer Wales, and hammer Scotland. He traveled home through Italy and France, settling disputes and collecting ideas that would inform the most legislatively productive reign in English medieval history.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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