Edward was absent when his father died, but within a few days he had rejoined the army, was received as king, without waiting for coronation, by the English and Scottish lords, and proclaimed his royal peace. One of his father’s last injunctions, that he should promptly and persistently follow up the war, was set aside from the first; Aymer de Valence was made commander and governor of Scotland, and the king himself moved southwards. Another of his father’s commands was set at nought directly after: Gaveston was recalled and raised to the earldom of Cornwall. Walter Langton, the late king’s treasurer and chief minister, was removed from office and imprisoned, and the chancellor also was displaced. Edward I. was not yet buried, and his son’s first parliament, called at Northampton, in October, 1307, was asked to provide money for the expenses of the funeral and the coronation; for already it was said the favorite had got hold of the treasure and was sending it to his foreign kinsfolk. But the jealous nobles were not inclined to hurry matters as yet: the Parliament granted money; Edward I. was solemnly buried; and orders were given to prepare for the coronation in February, 1308. [Sidenote: Marriage of the king with Isabella of France. ] The young king had been betrothed to Isabella of France, the daughter of Philip the Fair. He wished that his young bride should be crowned with him, and so crossed over to Boulogne to marry her. The indignation of the lords and of the country at the recall and promotion of Gaveston was fanned into a flame by the announcement that, as it was necessary to appoint a regent during the king’s short absence, the Earl of Cornwall with full and even peculiar powers was appointed to the place. It became clear that the coronation could scarcely take place without an uproar. [Sidenote: The Coronation.] [Sidenote: The coronation oath. ]