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English king. Edward III was born at Windsor, the eldest son of Edward II
and Isabella of France. Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, one of
several disaffected Barons, had imprisoned and then killed the unpopular
Edward II. They held power until the young Edward reached majority. Rather
more effective than his father, Edward arrested his mother and Mortimer as
soon as he took power, hanging the latter. He married Philippa of Holland in
1328.
Edward was crowned in 1327, and the uneasy truce with Scotland was quickly
ended, with the Scottish army invading. Although a further truce was
concluded, when Robert the Bruce died in 1329, Edward involved himself in
the politics of the succession. Edward supported Edward Balliol (c.1283 -
1364), who was a malleable if incompetent individual, and invaded laying
siege to Berwick-upon-Tweed and heavily defeating the Scots at Hallidon Hill
(1333). Edward was forced to support Balliol's precarious rule on two
further occasions (1335, when he marched to Perth and 1336, when he burned
Aberdeen), before tiring of what he saw as an unprofitable campaign and
turning his attentions to France.
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