1390s in England
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Events from the 1390s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch - Richard II (to 29 September 1399), Henry IV
Events
- 1390
- Parliament passes a statute forbidding retainers to wear livery whilst off-duty.[1]
- Statute of Provisors prohibits clergy from accepting benefices from the Pope.[1]
- September - The Duke of Hereford (the future King Henry IV of England) supports the Teutonic Knights at the siege of Vilnius in the Lithuanian Civil War.[2]
- John Gower's poem Confessio Amantis is completed.
- 1391
- Parliament re-asserts royal prerogatives.[1]
- 1392
- King Richard II retakes control of London.[1]
- Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester created Lieutenant of Ireland but forbidden to actually travel there.[1]
- Penistone Grammar School, which will in the late 20th century become one of the first community comprehensive schools in England, is founded near Barnsley.
- 1393
- Hundred Years' War: Peace negotiations between England and France at Calais.[1]
- Rebellion in northern England protesting at peace negotiations with France is quickly suppressed.[1]
- Statute of Praemunire makes it an offence to promote Papal Bulls or excommunications.[1]
- The hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall is commissioned from royal carpenter Hugh Herland.[3]
- Approximate date - Julian of Norwich begins to write Revelations of Divine Love about her sixteen mystical visions.[1]
- 1394
- 2 October - King Richard leads an expedition to Ireland to enforce his rule there.[4]
- 25 December - Richard defines the borders of English rule in Ireland; later to become known as the English Pale.[1]
- First scholars enter Winchester College.
- 1395
- 15 May - Richard leaves Ireland, having achieved his objectives.[1]
- Lollard manifesto The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards attached to the doors of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.[1]
- 1396
- 9 March - Hundred Years' War: 28-year truce signed with France.[1]
- 31 October - Marriage of the widowed Richard II of England (29) and 6-year-old Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.
- 1397
- 10 February - John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.
- 6 June - Richard Whittington is nominated as Lord Mayor of London for the first time.
- 25 September - Thomas Arundel succeeds William Courtenay as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 29 September - John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II.
- 8 November - Roger Walden enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury after Thomas Arundel is banished from the realm by King Richard II.
- Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother is created Duke of Surrey by King Richard.
- Richard II attempts to reassert authority over his kingdom by arresting members of a group of powerful barons known as the Lords Appellant.
- September - Parliament condemns the Lords Appellant, impeaching Duke of Gloucester, Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick.[1]
- 1398
- 27 January - Parliament meets at Shrewsbury and annuls the acts of the 1388 Parliament.[1]
- 16 September - King Richard stops a duel between his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.[1]
- King Richard II exiles both Henry Bolingbroke and the Duke of Norfolk for ten years in order to end their feud.[1]
- Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire.
- 1399
- 3 February - Death of John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II and father of Henry Bolingbroke.[1]
- 18 March - Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.[1]
- 23 April - St George's Day in England is first officially celebrated as a holiday.[5]
- 1 June - Richard travels to Ireland to suppress a rebellion.[1]
- July - Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.[4]
- August - Having returned from Ireland, Richard is taken prisoner by Henry's followers at Conway Castle.[1]
- 29 September - Abdication of Richard II, the first for an English monarch.[6]
- 30 September - Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king.[1]
- 13 October - Coronation of Henry IV of England.[6]
- 21 October - Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
Births
- 1390
- 3 October - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447)
- 27 December - Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the throne (died 1411)
- John Dunstaple, composer (died 1453)
- 1391
- 6 November - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, politician (died 1425)
- Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (died 1415)
- 1392
- 3 February - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (died 1455)
- 3 August - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (born at Calais; died 1432)
- 1394
- Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (died 1415)
- 1395
- 18 March - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, military leader (died 1447)
- 7 September - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, politician (died 1427)
- 1396
- 16 October - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (died 1450)
- John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros (died 1421)
- 1398
- Approximate date
- James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (killed 1459)
- William Waynflete, born William Patten, Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (died 1486)
- Approximate date
- 1399
- Approximate date - William Canynge, merchant (died 1474)
Deaths
- 1390
- 14 August - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, soldier (born 1364)
- 1392
- John Arderne, surgeon (born 1307)
- 1393
- 22 February - John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux (year of birth unknown)
- 1394
- 4 June - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV (born c. 1369)
- 7 June - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II (plague) (born 1366)
- John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (born 1365)
- John Hawkwood, mercenary (born 1320)
- 1396
- 31 July - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1342)
- 29 November - Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem (born 1373)
- John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (born 1361)
- 1397
- 25 April - Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (born c. 1350)
- 3 June - William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, military leader (born 1328)
- 15 September - Adam Easton, Catholic Cardinal (year of birth unknown)
- 21 September - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, military leader (executed) (born 1346)
- 1398
- 24 March - Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk (born c. 1320)
- 20 July - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (born 1374)
- 1399
- 3 February - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (born 1340)
- 29 July - William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (executed) (born 1350)
- 22 September - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, politician (born 1366)
References
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