Edward III seizes power from Mortimer
October 1330
The eighteen-year-old king and a small band of companions slipped through a secret tunnel into Nottingham Castle and arrested his mother's lover. Mortimer was hanged at Tyburn within a month, his body left dangling for two days as a public spectacle. Edward, freed from regency, would embark on a half-century of wars that would define the Hundred Years' conflict.
In context
Also in 1330 (3 other events on record)
- Yusuf I of Granada begins building the Alhambra's palaces · Europe · Culture
- Battle of Posada: Wallachia born in defiance · Europe · War
- Brocard of Mount Carmel and eastern Christian decline · Middle East · Religion
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
Sources