EDWARD Ist While Giotto assisted at the impetuous development of that mercantile class that would have determined a radical change in the social-economical structure of the world, events of the same absolute and decisive importance were taking place in England. In 1272, Edward 1st went to the throne in a country that was still in formation and delineating in its constitutive cells. He was the first of a series of monarchs with the same name that reigned during Giotto’s lifetime, so that the period is called :the reign of the three Edwards. It was during his reign that Parliament, the institution so typically English, was delineated in form and importance. A few years before, it was established by the monarchy that the smaller County lords should chose a certain number of themselves to represent the same monarchy :it was an initial sign of the principle of representation. When the idea of representing developed and grew until reaching the idea of a national Parliament, there were consequences of enormous importance for England and the rest of the world It was Edward 1st, a great monarch of whom has been said, among other things, "he was one of those men who learn from revolutions", to ratify, in 1276, that other document of extreme importance, the Magna Charta. It was him who made systematic, with regular convocations, that meeting and that debate that was to take place in "Parliament". We don’t suggest that Edward created the Parliament, it was born, developed and matured in grades, it was, however, during his reign and those of the following Edwards, that it assumed an aspect resembling, in some ways, the actual one. Parliament derives from the Latin "Parliamentum" ( place where one speaks ). These events happened in the times of Giotto and, notwithstanding, in those times, the Florentine commercial, financial and cultural impact was prevailing in London and was so near to the throne, many centuries would have passed before the descendants of Giotto acquired the right to "speak". Leeds castle. "Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile, both loved the castle, using It for rest and hunting…Edward I carried out extensive alterations to the castle".