Edward I

Edward I

Edward I was the King of England who seized the Stone of Destiny from the Scots in 1296 and bore it away to Westminster Abbey.

History

Edward was nicknamed "the Hammer of the Scots". He carried off the Stone as part of a war on Scotland he was waging at the time. One of his weapons against the Scots was the Warwolf. With the Stone in England, he commissioned the Coronation Chair, which would house the Stone of Destiny for the next seven hundred years. ("Rock of Ages")

Characteristics

The Royal Family Tree

Fergus Mór                                   Monarch of: Dalriada Scotland England   Hunters with Black Background                                                                                                                                 Kenneth mac Alpin     Donald mac Alpin                                                                                 Aodh           Constantine I                             Constantine II           Donald II                             Indulf           Maol Chalvim I           Queen Katharine                   Richard of Normandy                                                                                                                                                                             Culen   Duff   Kenneth II   Prince Malcolm   Princess Elena   Mary   Aethelred the Unready   Emma of Normandy   Canute   Elfgiva                                                                                                                                                                         Constantine III   Kenneth III   Ruaidri   Maol Chalvim II   Princess Katharine   Tom (Guardian)   Edmund Ironside   Edward the Confessor   Hardicanute   Harold Harefoot                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Maíl Brigti   Bodhe   Findlaech     Doada   Olith           Bethoc                     William the Conqueror                                                                                                                               MacBodhe                                             Duncan                                                                                                                                         Gillecomgain         Gruoch   Macbeth   Thorfinn   Ingibjorg   Canmore   Donald Ban               Edward I                                                                                                                                           Luach                         Donald Canmore                                                                                                                                                                   Robert the Bruce                                                                                                                                                         Stuart Canmore, the Renaissance Hunter               James VI of Scotland, I of England                                                                                                     Angus Canmore                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Jackson Canmore       Fiona Canmore                                                                                       Aron Canmore                                                                                       Charles Canmore                                                                                                                 Jason Canmore   Robyn Canmore   John Castaway

Appearances

• "Rock of Ages" (no lines)

Real World Background

Edward I was King of England from 1272 to 1307. One of the strongest of England's medieval kings, besides carrying off the Stone of Destiny, he was also noted for conquering and annexing Wales (building many castles in the north of Wales to keep it under control), reforming the English legal system (which earned him the nickname "the English Justinian"), assembling the Model Parliament in 1295, expelling the Jews from England in 1290 (they remained exiled until the 17th Century), building the Eleanor Crosses to mourn the passing of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, and attending the installment of the purported remains of King Arthur Pendragon and Queen Guinevere (although Greg Weisman has mused that they were actually Guinevere and Lancelot) at Glastonbury in a marble tomb on April 19, 1278. [1]

"The Hammer of the Scots" was a real nickname of Edward I. He was also known as "Longshanks".

See Also

• Edward I at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia