伊莎贝拉与玛格丽特14

From this moment

the lords who opposed Edward could be in no doubt

that the King intended the conflict to be a fight to the death.

And in March 1322, at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire,

Edward finally got his revenge for the years of humiliation

when his army defeated and captured the Earl of Lancaster.

As the greatest chronicler of the reign recalled,

"The Earl of Lancaster once cut off Piers Gaveston's head

and now by the King's command the Earl himself had lost his head.

Thus, perhaps not unjustly, the Earl received measure for measure."

Isabella's husband was making very clear the dreadful penalties

that now faced anyone who dared to oppose him.

England's prisons filled with the wives and children of the rebels,

while aristocratic corpses were left to rot on gallows across the country.