The rule of Edward III of England

1. King Edward III
25 January 1327 – 21 June 1377
Ekaterina Balandina
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Anastasia Savinova
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2. • Name: King Edward III
Born: November 13, 1312 at Windsor Castle
Parents: Edward II and Isabella of France
Relation to Elizabeth II: 17th great-grandfather
House of: Plantagenet
Ascended to the throne: January 25, 1327 aged 14 years
Crowned: January 29, 1327 at Westminster Abbey
Married: Philippa, Daughter of Count of Hainault
Children: Seven sons and five daughters, plus at least 3 illegitimate (by Alice
Perrers)
Died: June 21, 1377 at Sheen Palace, Surrey, aged 64 years, 7 months, and 6
days
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
Reigned for: 50 years, 4 months, and 25 days
Succeeded by: his grandson Richard II

3. Early Life

4. Edward III invades Scotland
• the Second War of
Scottish Independence
• won a decisive victory
over the Scots at
Halidon Hill in 1333
• Edward Balliol on the
throne of Scotland

5. Dynastic Background for the Hundred Years’ War
Philip III
(1270-1285)
Philip IV
(1285-1314) Charles of Valois
Louis X
(1314-1316)
Charles IV
(1322-1328)
Philip V
(1316-1322) Isabella Edward II
Edward III
Philip VI
(1328-1350)

7. The Hundred Years’ War (1337 – 1453)
Edward III of England Philip VI of France

8. Sluys (1340)
• From 1337 until 1341 was a sea-battle off
Flemish port
• The French tried to prevent King Edward and his
troops landing
• The first great victory of English Navy
• Both Kings were forced to make a truce
• Lasted 6 years
Truce - перемирие

9. Battle of Crecy (1346)
• It took place on 26 August, 1346
near Crecy in northern France
• English army – 15000, French
army - around 30,000 to 40,000
DESICIVE ENGLISH VICTORY
The Black Prince

10. the Order of the Garter (1344)

11. Siege of Calais (4 September 1346-4 August 1347)

12. Battle of Poitiers (1356)
• In 1355, the Black Prince
provoked the French King
John to renew the war
• September 19, 1356
DESICIVE ENGLISH VICTORY
• Hundreds of prisoners were
captured, including King
John

13. May 25, 1360

14. David II leading Scotland

15. The lady whom we saw has not uncomely hair,
betwixt blue-black and brown. Her head is clean-shaped;
her forehead high and broad, and standing
somewhat forward. Her face narrows between the eyes,
and the lower part of her face is still more narrow and
slender than the forehead. Her eyes are blackish-brown
and deep. Her nose is fairly smooth and even, save that
it is somewhat broad at the tip and somewhat flattened,
yet it is no snub-nose. Her nostrils are also broad, her
mouth fairly wide. Her lips somewhat full, and
especially the lower lip. Her teeth which are fallen and
grown again are white enough, but the rest are not so
white. The lower teeth project a little beyond the upper;
yet this is but little seen. Her ears and chin are comely
enough. Her neck, shoulders, and all her body and lower
limbs are reasonably well shapen; all her limbs are well
set. Moreover, she is brown of skin all over, and much
like her father; and in all things she is pleasant enough,
as it seems to us."

16. The sword of Edward III
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rreeiiggnn ooff hhiiss ggrraannddssoonn aanndd ssuucccceessssoorr
KKiinngg RRiicchhaarrdd IIII

17. The Black Death It first reached
England in 1348
Three of
Edward's
children were to
die during the
outbreak of
bubonic plague
in 1348
In the
aftermath of the
Black Death
there was
inevitable social
upheaval

18. The Death of Edward III
In September 1376 the king was unwell and
was said to be suffering from an abscess.
He made a
brief recovery
but, in a fragile
condition,
suffered a
stroke at
Sheen on 12th
June, 1377

19. T h a n k y o u f o r y o u r a t t e n t i o n !
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