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76: Plantagenets 4, or "ROCKY GOES MEDIEVAL"

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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Piers Gaviston and Edward II

Piers Gaviston gets invited to King Edward I's court and historians kind of think that Edward I wanted Piers to rub off on his son because Edward II was not into the sort of the manly things of being a king. When historian, you know the historians have said that he cared he was concerned not with chivalry but only with his own desires. There have always been rumors that he and peers, Gaviston were lovers. But seem brave heart and that's pretty. They put that in Braveheart for sure.

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