This monarch's reign saw the Statute of Provisors and the Statute of Praemunire passed in resistance
This monarch's reign saw the Statute of Provisors and the Statute of Praemunire passed in resistance to the papacy, and this monarch led a failed expedition in the Lothians a decade after defeating David II at the Battle of Neville's Cross. Guilty of installing Edward Baliol as a puppet king of Scotland shortly after signing the Treaty of Northampton, he saw his mistress Alice Perrers prosecuted by the Good Parliament. Reigning effectively from the time he got Roger (*) Mortimer sentenced to death, this husband of Philippa of Hainault gained possession of Aquitaine but gave up his pretensions to the French throne when he signed the Treaty of Calais despite his victories over John II and Philip VI. The father of Edward the Black Prince and John of Gaunt, for 10 points, name this victor at the Battle of Crecy, the English king who started the Hundred Years' War.
This monarch's reign saw the Statute of Provisors and the Statute of Praemunire passed in resistance to the papacy, and this monarch led a failed expedition in the Lothians a decade after defeating David II at the Battle of Neville's Cross.