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	Piers Gaveston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Gascon by birth, Piers was the son of Sir Arnaul de Gabaston, a soldier in service to King Edward I of England.
		Gaveston was married to Margaret de Clare, a granddaughter of King Edward I and was created Earl of Cornwall by the king.
		Gaveston was unpopular with the new queen as well as with the nobles, and the two men, who were approximately the same age, are believed to have had a homosexual relationship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piers_Gaveston (441 words)

	Piers Gaveston
		Piers Gaveston (~1284-1312) was the favourite of King Edward II of England.
		A Gascon by birth, Gaveston was married to Margaret de Clare, a granddaughter of King Edward I and was created Earl of Cornwall by the king.
		Gaveston had already been sent into exile once by King Edward I, who disapproved of the friendship.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Piers_Gaveston.html (214 words)

	GAVESTON - LoveToKnow Article on GAVESTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Strong, talented and ambitious, Gaveston gained great influence over young Edward, and early in 1307 he was banished from England by the king; but he returned after the death of Edward I. a few months later, and at once became the chief adviser of Edward II.
		These proceedings aroused the anger and jealousy of the barons, and their wrath was diminished neither by Gavestons superior skill at the tournament, nor by his haughty and arrogant behaviour to themselves.
		Gaveston, whose body was buried in 1315 at Kings Langley, left an only daughter.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GA/GAVESTON.htm (393 words)

	Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		August 10, 1315) was an English nobleman, and one of the principal opponents of Edward II's favorite Piers Gaveston.
		Warwick had no great like for Piers Gaveston, who had called Warwick "the fl cur of Arden" (an allusion to Warwick's dark complexion and to the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire).
		Gaveston was placed in the custody of the Earl of Pembroke, but then on June 10 Warwick, with a force of 140 men seized him and carried him off to Warwick castle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_de_Beauchamp,_10th_Earl_of_Warwick (332 words)

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		Piers made all the arrangements for the coronation, tried to outshine all others present by his manner of dress and had the highest honour of carrying the king's crown.
		Gaveston further incurred the wrath of the court by bungling the banqueting arrangements resulting in a poorly cooked and late meal.
		Gaveston continued to abuse the barons with his wit and sarcasm, but probably what annoyed the barons more was that despite his foppishness, Gaveston was a good knight.
	www.historyincoins.com /ed2.htm (2339 words)

	History House: Edward II, Part I: The Gay Blade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gaveston the upstart was proving to be such a pain that a group of nobles threatened to boycott the coronation unless he wasn't allowed to be there.
		Gaveston was back before long, associating openly with Edward, who made him earl of Cornwall for the third time (the earldom of Cornwall must have been a pretty sweet position for Gaveston to get it three times in a row).
		Gaveston was marched outside, up a hill, and forced to lie his head on a stump, whereupon it was neatly removed.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/edward_ii (1996 words)

	Robert Lacey
		The new king had awarded Gaveston pride of place in his coronation procession, bestowing on him the honour of carrying the crown and sword of Edward the Confessor, and Gaveston, in royal purple splashed with pearls, was certainly dressed for the occasion.
		The old king had made Gaveston, the son of a trusted knight, a ward in the prince’s household, but there were complaints that the two men got up to mischief together, frequenting taverns and running up debts.
		On 19 June 1312, Piers Gaveston was beheaded at Blacklow Hill on the road between Warwick and Kenilworth.
	www.robertlacey.com /piers_gaveston.html (2098 words)

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		Gaveston had plenty of enemies, since most of the English magnates resented his power over the King: power which Edward formalised by making him his Regent while he was abroad.
		In Oxfordshire, however, Gaveston was seized from the protesting Pembroke by the militant Lords, led by the Earls of Warwick and Lancaster.
		The irony of this was that Despenser (unlike Gaveston) was of noble birth and a competent soldier: his influence on the King was generally used in favor of moderation.
	www.adam-carr.net /007.html (2901 words)

	Richard III Soc.-Wood Symposium-Jeffrey Hamilton
		We know that the future Edward II was born at Caernarvon on 25 April 1284, and since Gaveston's mother Claramonde de Marsan had died not later than February 1288,[6] we know that Gaveston could not have been much younger than his future lord.
		Piers Gaveston does not appear in the English records until 1297 when he is found campaigning with his father Arnaud de Gabaston in Flanders.
		This "bastard of Gaveston" never appears in the same place as Piers Gaveston throughout his life, and he is said to have died in 1312.
	www.r3.org /wood/papers/hamilton.html (1096 words)

	Edward II and Piers Gaveston's Involvement with Scarborough Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward's reign was not stable, and he was constantly at odds with the barons of England over the undue influence of his favorites as well as other issues.
		Piers was left there, in a castle that, with the town's support, could have withstood almost any attack.
		Gaveston's captors swore oaths in a solemn ceremony, at the local Dominican friary, to preserve his life.
	kinemage.biochem.duke.edu /~panther/scarborough/html/index.edward.s.html (529 words)

	Edward II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The prince’s dissipation caused his father to banish young Edward’s friend Piers Gaveston, who, however, returned to England immediately on Edward II’s succession (1307) to the throne.
		Edward’s reliance on Gaveston, both as intimate and adviser, to the exclusion of the baronial council, provoked a crisis.
		Gaveston was recalled (1311) again, however, and the barons resorted to arms, capturing and killing Gaveston in 1312.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ed/Edward2.html (510 words)

	Observer \| Looks like trouble
		No sooner had their wedding party docked at Dover than Edward was showering the waiting Gaveston with kisses and bestowing on him the jewels that the new queen's father, the King of France, had given as part of her dowry.
		Gaveston, here, is an angular blond with hair falling foppishly across one eye and a cool green stare: a cruel version of Julian Sands circa Room with a View.
		Gaveston's name is now remembered for the louche Oxford society that goes under it, old photographs of a student Hugh Grant dressed in women's clothes at a Piers Gaveston party having limped their way through the press.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4429723-99930,00.html (786 words)

	Silverfoxes Club Digest 216
		Piers was the son of a Gascon, or French, knight who was close to Edward's father, Edward I, more popularly known as Longshanks.
		Piers was strong and, it is said, handsome, darkly French, with an athlete's body, and highly skilled in all the manly arts.
		Piers, although the son of a knight, was a commoner all the same, not to the manner born.
	www.benboxer.com /Digests/Apr01/Digest216.html (4268 words)

	Gaveston, Piers, Earl of Cornwall -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Strong, talented, and ambitious, Gaveston gained great influence over young Edward, and early in 1307 he was banished from England by the king; but he returned after the death of Edward I a few months later (July 1307) and at once became the chief adviser of Edward II.
		These proceedings aroused the anger and jealousy of the barons, and their anger was diminished neither by Gaveston's superior skill at the tournament nor by his haughty and arrogant behaviour toward themselves.
		Deserted by the king, Gaveston surrendered to Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, at Scarborough in May 1312 and was taken to Deddington in Oxfordshire, where he was seized by Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9036236 (1026 words)

	Edward II and the Poker Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The trouble was that Gaveston and Edward got up to all sorts of wild and dissipated stuff together and became lovers as well.
		Longshanks sent Gaveston into exile - not, it seems, because he disapproved of any gay affair and not because he disapproved of Gaveston, who was intelligent and an able soldier, but because he thought that his son was spending too much time having fun rather than learning his princely business.
		On his deathbed soon after, Longshanks ordered Edward not to allow Gaveston back into the kingdom, and ordered that his own body be boiled down after death and his bones preserved to accompany every English army that marched against the Scots until they had finally been defeated.
	www.mb007a2628.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /edward2.htm (1434 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Edward II
		Piers rejoined King Edward II in England but the barons revolted and Gaveston was hunted down and murdered in 1312 - full rebellion was avoided only by Edward's acceptance of further restrictions.
		Gaveston was exiled by Edward I (Edward II's father), and was the occasion of massive rows between father and son.
		Edward's passion for Gaveston, and later, after Gaveston was murdered, for Hugh Dispenser, were among the factors which led to a rebellion, aided by his wife, against him.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/bioe1/edwa01.html (1381 words)

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		Piers Gaveston lolled nearby on a padded fauldstool and attempted a distraction.
		Knowing Piers' sense of fun he would not have been surprised at something quite outrageous, but it was not as bad as he had feared.
		"Gaveston, come and see this merry band of outlaws and tell me what shall be done with them." There was a slight movement in the packed crowd and tall, lithe Gaveston came into sight, doing what appeared to be a rapid adjustment of his hose.
	nifty.nisusnet.com /nifty/gay/celebrity/robin-o-wood/robin-o-wood-5 (8671 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gaveston: Erm...there was a Clive Mortimer I seem to remember - quite a nice chap.
		I may not have shared the same bed with her for several years, but she is the father to my only son.
		Gaveston: Easy to mistake to make in her case though.
	members.lycos.co.uk /the_story_so_far/page33.htm (703 words)

	The Politics of King Edward and his Favorites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward's nobles were not fond of Gaveston, and they called for him to be exiled again.
		Gaveston took refuge in Scarborough Castle; however, he was beseiged there and eventually killed.
		Within a few years after Piers Gaveston was killed Edward had acquired two new favorites, a father and son pair both named Hugh Despensers.
	kinemage.biochem.duke.edu /~panther/scarborough/html/index.edward.p.html (584 words)

	BBC - History - Edward II and Piers Gaveston 1307 - 1312 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was thought to be largely under the influence of his favourites, especially the Gascon squire, Piers Gaveston (and later Hugh le Despenser and his son).
		Edward II was not as politically astute or as militarily capable as his father and soon lost many of the strongholds taken by Edward I during his campaigns.
		Throughout his reign as King, Edward II struggled with discontented barons, who particularly objected to Gaveston's influence - he was widely considered the king's lover.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/mid_p_gaveston.shtml (269 words)

	Scarborough: 1890
		On the south-east of the castle yard, on a projecting plane facing the bay and the haven, midway between the outer pier and the summit of the castle cliff, is the South Steel Battery.
		In 1732 the harbour was considered to be contracted and dangerous, and, the old pier being inadequate for the requirements of the town, an Act was procured for their enlargement, at an estimated cost of £12,000.
		The damage done to the pier and the shipping in the harbour, by several violent storms in the latter part of the 18th century, induced the Commissioners to build a new pier, extending from the foot of the Castle Cliff, and sweeping further out into the sea.
	www.ramsdale.org /scarboro.htm (17358 words)

	Books \| Where's that poker?
		When the heroine, a timid Oxford postgrad called Gaby, first sets eyes on her love-object, Piers Gaveston, she says "I almost choked on my cigarette", which rather makes one wonder why she was eating a cigarette in the first place.
		Since Gaveston is the king's "favourite" in Marlowe's Edward II, and since Piers Gaveston's mentor Sir Edward is, well, called Edward, the relationship between the two is obvious to the reader from the novel's first pages.
		Gaveston might be read straight, as an attempt at melding a literary approach to romantic tropes with a satire on the mores of higher education and the media.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4433642-110738,00.html (611 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines
		In addition, Gaveston was ordered to leave the country by the 1st of November and to be stripped of his titles.
		Gaveston's return to England forced the Archbishop of Canterbury to honour his threat of excommunication and the Earls to prepare for civil war against the king.
		Edward had delayed having the body of Gaveston buried until he had taken revenge for the murder, but because the King was powerless to act against the Ordainers, he decided to hold a lavish ceremony to bury his dead friend.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hstt52.htm (3207 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Earl Piers De Gaveston CORNWALL ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
		Margaret, second queen of Edward I, Queen Isabella and Queen Philippa were all benefactors of the Franciscans whose Greyfriars Monastery was to be one of the finest in London with a large library built at the expense of Richard Whittington.
		It seemed to the king that the handsome and accomplished Gascon youth would introduce a better note into the oafish household at King's Langley...So Piers de Gavescon was sent to live there as a comrade for the prince; and this was the second of the two grave errors of which the king was guilty...
		The earls and barons concerned in Gaveston's death were to appear before the king in Westminster Hall, and humbly beg his pardon and good-will.
	www.geneal.net /3414.htm (1796 words)

	Gaveston, Piers. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He was made earl of Cornwall and married the new king’s niece.
		When Edward was absent in France (1308), Gaveston was regent.
		His greed and arrogance and the king’s reliance on his counsel aroused strong hostility among the barons, who forced (1308) Edward to banish him.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ga/Gaveston.html (182 words)

	Edward II, a CurtainUp London review
		Gaveston was a Gascon squire and viewed by the English barons as well beneath them in social class.
		The murders of Gaveston and Edward are chilling and disturbing.
		Gaveston's yellow toga as he cavorts as the god Pan is risqué and provocative.
	www.curtainup.com /edward2lond.html (1060 words)

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