Person1239 – 1307
Edward I
Also called: Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots
King of England from 1272 to 1307 who summoned the Model Parliament of 1295 and conquered Wales
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The parliament summoned in 1295 by Edward I of England, which brought together knights of the shires and burgesses of the towns as well as nobles and clergy, became the pattern for later parliaments.
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing