The Loyal Friend Who Helped the Seventeen-Year-Old Edward III Arrest Roger Mortimer in His Mother's Bedchamber
William Montagu was Edward III's closest personal friend from childhood. On the night of 19 October 1330 he led the small armed party that entered Nottingham Castle through an underground tunnel, broke into Isabella's bedchamber, and seized Roger Mortimer. The coup ended the Mortimer-Isabella regency and made Edward III an effective king at seventeen.
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