1. RICHARD II 1377-1399 *BORN IN 1367, DIED 1400
*Showed great courage as a young king during the Peasant’s Revolt (1381).

2. LORD’S APPELANT
Faction of Barons who forced Richard II to submit to them in
They wanted to help control the young kings ambitions, and continue the control they had under John of Gaunt.
RICHARD II removed/ eliminated this group in the year 1397.
FIVE LEADING OPPONENTS: UNCLE, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER;
HENRY BOLINGBROKE; EARL OF ARUNDEL; EARL OF WARWICK; EARL OF NOTTINGHAM (LATER DUKE OF NORFOLK)

3. YEARS OF TYRANNY FOLLOWED THE PROBLEMS OF THOSE OPPOSED TO HIS IDEAS
Alienated those who supported him
Help bring about the abdication by Henry Bolingbroke in 1399.

4. HOW DID HE DIE???? THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH IS STILL UNCERTAIN
QUESTIONS:
WAS HE MURDERED IN PRISON???
DID HE SIMPLY DIE OF NATURAL CAUSES?

5. RICHARD II BIOGRAPHY SON OF EDWARD ‘BLACK PRINCE’
SUCCEEDED EDWARD III (G’FATHER)
LEADING OPPONENTS
Duke of Gloucester, Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Nottingham, Earl of