1390s in England - Events

Events

• 1390
  • Parliament passes a statute forbidding retainers to wear livery whilst off-duty.
  • Statute of Provisors prohibits clergy from accepting benefices from the Pope.
  • 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.
• 1391
  • Parliament re-asserts royal prerogatives.
• 1392
  • King Richard II retakes control of London.
  • Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester created Lieutenant of Ireland but forbidden to actually travel there.
  • 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.
  • Rebellion in northern England protesting at peace negotiations with France is quickly suppressed.
  • Statute of Praemunire makes it an offence to promote Papal Bulls or excommunications.
  • Julian of Norwich writes Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love about her mystical visions.
  • The hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall is commissioned from royal carpenter Hugh Herland.
• 1394
  • 2 October - King Richard leads an expedition to Ireland to enforce his rule there.
  • 25 December - Richard defines the borders of English rule in Ireland; later to become known as the English Pale.
• 1395
  • 15 May - Richard leaves Ireland, having achieved his objectives.
  • Lollard manifesto The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards attached to the doors of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
• 1396
  • 9 March - Hundred Years' War: 28-year truce signed with France.
  • 31 October - Marriage of Richard II of England and 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.
• 1398
  • 27 January - Parliament meets at Shrewsbury and annuls the acts of the 1388 Parliament.
  • 16 September - King Richard stops a duel between his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.
  • King Richard II exiles both Henry Bolingbroke and the Duke of Norfolk for ten years in order to end their feud.
  • 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.
  • 18 March - Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.
  • 1 June - Richard travels to Ireland to suppress a rebellion.
  • 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.
  • August - Having returned from Ireland, Richard is taken prisoner by Henry's followers at Conway Castle.
  • 29 September - Abdication of Richard II, the first for an English monarch.
  • 30 September - Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king.
  • 13 October - Coronation of Henry IV of England.
  • 21 October - Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.