[00:01.698]A King couldn't rule without the support of his powerful nobles.
[00:06.386]They would help him keep order in the kingdom and defend it from attack,
[00:11.342]while the King himself offered leadership and security.
[00:15.875]But that's just what the nobles thought Edward wasn't doing.
[00:20.723]His father, the great warrior King Edward I,
[00:23.672]had defended the country and earned the title "Hammer of the Scots"
[00:27.884]for his ferocious attempt to conquer Scotland.
[00:31.982]But these hard-won gains were now being lost by his son
[00:36.928]and the nobles laid the blame on his obsession with Gaveston.
[00:42.935]Eventually, seeing no other option, a group of nobles came to parliament, armed and angry.
[00:51.712]They demanded that Gaveston be banished,
[00:54.046]and forced Edward to agree that 21 of them should rule on his behalf.
[01:01.713]This was not what Isabella had signed up for when she married the King of England.
[01:07.766]But she was still little more than a child, and she was powerless to stop the conflict.