445:-- Like the Cambridge article on which I have just voted, the tone of this article is FAKE NEWS. Alison Weir's biography of Isabella (p.234) indicates that Edward II was at Cardiff on 26 October, when Bristol fell (after 8 days siege by an army of 2000). Dispenser surrendered at Bristol because public opinion was with Isabella. Her description of subsequent events does not mention Cardiff further. The king and younger Dispenser moved to Caerphilly Castle by 29th, then to Gower and Neath. Edward surrendered to the Earl of Lancaster on 16 November (Weir, pp.236-8). His efforts to raise troops on the lands of supporters in the marcher lordships of south Wales had been a failure. Note that these were not part of his realm of England or the Principality of Wales, merely being under his suzerainty.
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