Edward I, II, III

The difference in these three king Edwards is fascinating. Edward I was powerful, dominant and the definition of a warrior king but had the capability to be incredibly cruel. Edward II, Edward I's son, was quite the opposite. He was a man with the common touch who enjoyed interacting with regular, common people and who especially enjoyed doing laborious tasks like digging ditches. These qualities were looked at rather sniffily by Edward's contemporaries but his real downfall was his favouritism of unpopular figures like Piers Gaveston. Edward III was again different in turn. The king who started the Hundred Years War for a long time reigned mightily but was faced with different challenges aside from his aggressive foreign policy, including the Black Death. But ultimately it was time and old age that caught up with Edward III as his reign fell into turmoil in the last years of Edward's life. 3 king Edwards,3 very different men.