Edward II is the horror story that people tell husbands why it's important to always treat their wife well. It may or may not have been a medieval con job because it might have never happened, but if it did, eurgh. Apparently King Edward II had a lot of opposition and people weren't exactly his number one fan, especially not his wife. He was captured by an army that was lead by his wife and her lover Lord Mortimer, where they tortured him and forced him to abdicate from the throne. All of this was that his son, Edward III, would be able to replace him on the throne. During his time at Berkeley, where he was tortured through starvation and being thrown into a pit of rotten corpses, it is said that he met his tragic end there. As if starvation and sleeping on the dead weren't bad enough, Edward supposedly died from internal injuries. These were caused by a sharp, red hot poker being shoved up his backside, eventually burning out his insides. Whether this was medieval propaganda or not, you hope it is.
