On 27 January 1415 Walter Blake was imprisoned in the Marshalsea Prison. This was a result of his involvement in a plot to overthrow King Henry V. He was later tried and executed. King Henry V…
2 January 1382 : Grain shippers’ Stormed the Town Hall in Ghent 1381: A Year of Unrest 1381 had been a year of great unrest. The authorities strove to retain control. The poor had become desperate,…
French forces landed at Milford Haven in support of Owain Glyn Dwr, 7th August 1405 Owain Glyn Dwr held a claim to the title of Prince of Wales that had not been claimed by a…
The Southampton Plot was a conspiracy to depose King Henry V and replace him with Edward Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. The Southampton Plot, 1415 It was the Earl of March himself who revealed the…
The Battle of Bramham Moor was fought on 19th February 1408. It brought the Percy Rebellions (1402-1408) to an end as forces loyal to King Henry IV defeated the Earl of Northumberland’s force. Henry Percy,…
The Harelle On 17 January 1382, a series of new taxes were published by the Council in France. It was a tax in the usual form, the gabelle, to take effect on the 1 March…