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Britroyals Home. Alfred the Great Scottish Robert the Bruce Henry VIII George III Victoria Elizabeth II Edward was suffering badly from dysentery and his opponents were anticipating his end. A supposed prophecy of Merlin was in circulation, that after his death the Scots and the Welsh would unite and have things as they wished. A defiant Edward decided that he must take the field himself. He mounted his warhorse and led his army north, but he could manage to ride only two miles a day and when he reached the village of Burgh-on-Sands, not far from Carlisle, he had to take to his bed.

It was said that he realized he was dying and sent word to his son to have his embalmed body carried with the army into Scotland so that even in death he could still lead his men. The suggestion was not carried out. About noon on July 7th, when his servants came to lift him up so that he could eat, the king died in their arms.

He was sixty-eight. The motivation behind this arrangement was induced by fears of a Castilian invasion of Gascony, in southwest France, which at the time was an English province.

Therefore, on 1st November in Castile, Edward married Eleanor , a marriage that would end up producing sixteen children, with only five daughters reaching adulthood and one son, Edward II , outliving his father.

Edward and Eleanor. Whilst Edward was young he fell under the influence of his Poitevin uncles, a relationship which was resented by other members of the English aristocracy. Edward responded by opposing these reforms but later he began to change his opinion, and the following year he entered into a formal alliance with one of the main reformers. By 15th October, Edward had pledged his support for the barons and their leader, Simon de Montfort.

This decision put him at odds with his father who feared he was instigating a coup. It was only a year later that he and his father could be reconciled on the issue.

All attempts at negotiation, instigated by King Louis IX of France failed and the conflict continued. Edward launched a military campaign culminating in the Battle of Evesham in August Six years later, Edward would find himself embroiled in further conflict, this time international: the Ninth Crusade, the last major Crusade to the Holy Land.

However his time in this conflict was short-lived, as news from home forced a gradual return home for Edward. Edward I became well-known during his reign for his contributions to reforms and developments in administration.

He encompassed medieval kingship in all its forms, serving as an administrator, soldier and a man of religious conviction. In Edward I began his reforming programme by launching an investigation into government and administrative practices.

During his reign, many statutes were passed in order to deal with the problems that had been identified by the inquiry.