Edward II dies at Berkeley Castle
September 1327
The deposed king, held in increasingly harsh conditions in a dank cell, died on a September night. Official word gave natural causes; persistent rumor spoke of a red-hot poker. His tomb at Gloucester became an unofficial shrine of royal martyrdom, attracting pilgrims who venerated him as a suffering innocent. Edward III would later build a golden effigy over the sarcophagus.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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