Edward III and the 'New Nobility': largesse and limitation in fourteenth-century England

Edward III was the first ruler of England during his reign in the 14th century to change the trend of membership of parliamentary peerage which was then determined by a mixture of nobility. His attempt to influence the composition of parliamentary peerage could be attributed to the problems he faced in his relation with the nobility when he acquired the royal throne. A mixture of nobility in parliamentary peerage would have made the control of such institution difficult for King Edward III.