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Hace 2 días · Henry Bolingbroke‘s return to England in June 1399, while Richard was on a military campaign in Ireland, marked the beginning of the end for the king. Bolingbroke quickly gathered support from disaffected nobles and the general populace, who had grown weary of Richard‘s misrule.
Hace 1 día · The details of Henry of Bolingbroke's crusade or 'reyse' in the Baltic are contained in a surviving account, drawn up by his Treasurer of War. This provides a useful inventory of a late 14th century nobleman and his retinue on campaign. The expedition lasted sixty-six days, from 18 August-22 October 1390. His force was not large: seventy to eighty men of…
Hace 2 días · When Henry Bolingbroke returned from exile in 1399, Richard was imprisoned in the White Tower. He abdicated and was replaced on the throne by Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV. [101] In the 15th century, there was little building work at the Tower of London, yet the castle still remained important as a place of refuge.
Hace 3 días · Despite such favoured status, in 1399 the city surrendered to Henry Bolingbroke, duke of Lancaster, without a fight. Before the king's arrest the duke stayed at Chester castle for 12 days, drinking the king's wine, wasting fields, and pillaging houses.
Hace 5 días · Roughly two-thirds of the way through the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Eglamour of Artois, the eponymous protagonist’s lover, Cristabelle, has been cast adrift with her infant son in a rudderless boat. 1 Driven by the wind, this vessel runs ashore on a rocky island (809–10).
Hace 3 días · Henry Bolingbroke had passed through Leicester at the head of a large army in his campaign to seize the throne, and after his success, he came again in 1403, when he confirmed the freedom of the tenants of the honour of Leicester from toll, and among other visits may be mentioned one in 1406 when he pardoned the mayor and burgesses a ...
Hace 5 días · Great Casterton is a parish situated about 2½ miles north-west of Stamford, on the borders of Lincolnshire. The soil is inferior Oolite, producing cereals and roots. There is also some pasture. The village lies on the east and west sides of Ermine Street just above the Gwash.
