ABSTRACT
Edward iii, destined to be medieval England's great soldier-king, was hardly fifteen years of age when he succeeded to the throne which he was to occupy for over fifty years. The government therefore for three years passed into the hands of the faction which had deposed his father, and Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, ruled along with his paramour, the Queen-Mother Isabella. But in 1330 the young King asserted himself and overthrew Mortimer, who in November of that year was hanged as a common malefactor at Tyburn, while Isabella was imprisoned for life. The Mortimer estates in Wales and Ireland were forfeited and not restored till 1354, when the attainder was reversed in favour of Roger, grandson of the executed man, who thus became 2nd Earl of March and Lord of Trim and Leix.
