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In 1324 hostilities broke out in France. Edward sent his Queen and his eldest son to Paris to negotiate with the French Isabella took the opportunity to gain support to raise an army to invade England. She also took a lover, Roger Mortimer, one of Edward’s alienated  barons. In 1226 she landed in England to receive immediate support from many of the barons, and the City of London. Edward was captured in Wales, and formally deposed by Parliament in  January1327.  He died, almost certainly murdered, in Berkeley Castle in September 1327.

In 1324 hostilities broke out in France. Edward sent his Queen and his eldest son to Paris to negotiate with the French Isabella took the opportunity to gain support to raise an army to invade England. She also took a lover, Roger Mortimer, one of Edward’s alienated  barons. In 1226 she landed in England to receive immediate support from many of the barons, and the City of London. Edward was captured in Wales, and formally deposed by Parliament in  January1327.  He died, almost certainly murdered, in Berkeley Castle in September 1327.

Isabelle and Mortimer took the reins of power, ostensively in the name of the fourteen year-old Edward III.

Isabelle and Mortimer took the reins of power, ostensibly in the name of the fourteen year-old Edward III.