Once again a mortal monarch died of the painful, messy disease of dysentery, the gut infection strong enough to disable, dehydrate and kill. Edward met the same end as King John. It is easy to imagine that John might have been murdered and Edward could have died in battle. Instead both were brought down and humbled by bloody diarrhoea. Edward knew this was a bad case, he knew he was dying. He asked that his bones be kept as relics, to be carried before any English army heading into battle against the Scots so that he might witness English supremacy over those north of the border.
