Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2695162, member: 74712&quot;]I&#039;m embarrassed to say that I don&#039;t know much about Edward I (I&#039;m embarrassed to say this, as my doctoral supervisor was/is probably the world&#039;s expert on him).&nbsp; I would say ignore most everything in Braveheart - good film, but not very historically accurate.&nbsp; Edward would fight against the Scotts to subjugate them.&nbsp; While he didn&#039;t succeed against them, he would succeed against the Welsh through a system of building the most advanced castles of the age.</p><p><br /></p><p>The new coinage of Edward&#039;s reign would have a design that would be copied by his successors, to the point where the coins of Edward II and III are difficult to distinguish from the Ist.&nbsp; This design would be copied quite frequently in Europe since the English sterling had such a good reputation for its purity of silver.&nbsp; You can really see the resemblance in Spanish coins, and the Low Countries essentially created counterfeits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in