Edward I dies at Burgh by Sands
July 1307
Riding north once more to crush the Scots, the old king collapsed within sight of the Solway Firth. He had asked that his bones be carried at the head of any army invading Scotland, a request his weak son would ignore. Edward II buried him at Westminster and turned back from the Scottish border, with disastrous consequences for English ambitions.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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