Piers Gaveston's head shown to the Earl of Lancaster mb-code 1194123 Plate 16 from The History

Plate 16 from The History of the Nations

Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855 (Berlin 1856) pp

held on 11 May 1963 at the Silverstone Circuit

Cleese served as rector of the University of St Andrews

Lord Mayor 1910

Piers Gaveston's head shown to the Earl of Lancaster mb-code 1194123 Plate 16 from The HistoryPiers Gaveston's head shown to the Earl of Lancaster, 1312 (1864). Piers Gaveston (1284 1312) was a favourite, and possibly the lover, of King Edward II of England, who made him Earl of Cornwall. He made many many enemies, and Edward was forced by his barons to banish Gaveston in 1311. He recalled him the following year, causing Thomas Plantagenet (1278 1322), 2nd Earl of Lancaster to rebel and raise an army against Gaveston and the king. Gaveston was