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  2. Richard II of England - Wikipedia

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    Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward, Prince of Wales (later known as the Black Prince), and Joan, Countess of Kent .

  3. Peasants' Revolt - Wikipedia

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    The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...

  4. List of people hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt [6] 1381–1382: John Buk: Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt [7] 1381–1382: Richard de Leycester: Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt [7] 6 May 1382: John Wrawe: Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt [8] 1388: Thomas Usk: Accused of misleading King Richard II [9] 1400: Thomas Blount

  5. Wat Tyler - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] In response, the king, Richard II (then 14 years old), met with the rebels on 14 June 1381 and agreed to make many concessions and to give full pardons to all those involved in the rebellion. While some of the rebels were satisfied by the king's promises and dispersed, Tyler and his followers were not.

  6. Peasants' revolt of 996 in Normandy - Wikipedia

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    The Norman peasants' revolt in 996 was a revolt [1] against the Norman nobility. The revolt was ultimately defeated by the nobles under the early reign of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. His uncle Rodulf of Ivry was the regent of Normandy during the revolt. [2] [3]

  7. Battle of Billericay - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Billericay took place on 28 June 1381 when the boy King Richard II's soldiers defeated the Essex rebels adjacent to a wood north-east of Billericay, part of the Peasants' Revolt. This is likely to have been Norsey Wood, which maps of 1593 show to cover the same extent as in the early 20th century.

  8. Battle of North Walsham - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death played a key part in producing the conditions for the Peasants' Revolt. Fragment of a miniature from The Chronicles of Gilles Li Muisis (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique). The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was a major rebellion that spread throughout medieval England during the summer of that year. Its causes are complex.

  9. List of English civil wars - Wikipedia

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    The boy-king Richard II meets the Peasants' Revolt rebels on 14 June 1381, in a miniature from a 1470s copy of Jean Froissart's Chronicles. Harrying of the North (1069–1070) – An uprising which started 4 years after the Norman Conquest.