Isabella of France lands in Suffolk
September 1326
The estranged queen of Edward II returned from exile with her lover Roger Mortimer and a small mercenary force hired with Hainaut money. The king fled west; Isabella gathered support along the way. By autumn she controlled London. Her husband would be deposed by January and dead by autumn under murky circumstances at Berkeley Castle.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.