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When Henry Bolingbroke decided in 1399 to return from exile in France and force his cousin, King Richard II, to retur...
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After the Trial by Combat affair in 1398 between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray (which was supposed to be to th...
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Henry Bolingbroke and his cousin, Richard, were childhood friends, but when they were older Henry became one of the L...
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I mentioned yesterday that Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, married Mary de Bohun, through whom he inherited ...
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I wrote not too long ago about Bolingbroke and his adversarial relationship with hui cousin, Richard II. It might be ...
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The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliamen...
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After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered t...
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A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant, the group put in charge of England because of the exc...
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We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records,...
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After the populist mayor of London John Northampton was defeated in the election of 383 by Nicholas Brembre, Brembre ...
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Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the W...
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Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time bec...
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1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was incr...
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John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). H...
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When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for diner, you dress for dinner. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, t...
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Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He ha...
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We've talked about death and destruction in war, and all sorts of dangerous and aggressive behavior that is not seen ...
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William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the...
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We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. ...
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Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a ver...