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This book covers one of the most controversial and shocking episodes in medieval English history, the 'tyranny' and deposition of Richard II and the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV. Richard's deposition was arguably the most portentous event in the political history of late medieval England. The book represents all the principal contemporary chronicles from the violently partisan Thomas Walsingham, chronicler of St Alban's Abbey, who saw Richard as a tyrant and murderer, to the indignant Dieulacres chronicler, who claimed that the 'innocent king' was tricked into surrender by his perjured barons. Of the three most substantial contemporary chronicles which cover the earlier part of Richard's reign, two cease before 1397: namely the Westminster Chronicle, which ends in 1394, and the Chronicon Henrici Knighton, which peters out in 1395. Fortunately, the third, the Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, continues through the revolution of 1399 and well beyond, right up to 1420. The Lancastrian, French and Cistercian chronicles are the principal narrative accounts of the years 1397-1400, though they are not the only ones. The book focuses on the course of the Bolingbroke-Mowbray dispute, or his description of the early events of the 'Epiphany Rising'.
This chapter contains translated and annotated sources discussing the period June to September 1399 during the reign of Richard II.
Richard II's deposition of the throne was arguably the most portentous event in the political history of late medieval England. The real driving forces behind the thirty-year truce of 1396 were, on the English side, Richard II and John of Gaunt, and on the French side, Charles VI and his Uncle Philip duke of Burgundy. Of the three most substantial contemporary chronicles which cover the earlier part of Richard's reign, two cease before 1397: namely the Westminster Chronicle, which ends in 1394, and the Chronicon Henrici Knighton, which peters out in 1395. Fortunately, the third, the Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, continues through the revolution of 1399 and well beyond, right up to 1420. The chronicle, Traison et Mort covers the years 1397-1400, and was originally written at about the same time as the 'Metrical History', that is, in 1401-1402.
This chapter contains translated and annotated sources discussing the period July 1397 to May 1399 during the reign of Richard II.
This chapter contains translated and annotated sources discussing the period October 1399 to February 1400 during the reign of Richard II.