(1284-1327), king of England, son of Edward I, on whose death, in 1307, he came to the throne. His weakness and incompetency soon became apparent, and the fact that he was constantly under the dominion of foreign favorites led to numerous revolts. The war which his father had begun against the Scotch, Edward attempted to prosecute, but in 1314 he was completely defeated by Robert Bruce at Kannockburn, and some years later he was compelled to make a most unfavorable treaty with Scotland. He was at length deposed by a conspiracy of his great nobles and his wife, and in 1327 he was murdered.