* 1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants ' Revolt on Blackheath.

* 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants ' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.

Richard II's first wife, Anne of Bohemia, spent the winter of 1381 at the castle on her way to be married to the king.

Wat Tyler, the peasants ' leader was arrested by William Walworth, the Mayor of London, for threatening King Richard II in 1381.

In the next century, in the reign of Richard II there was an uprising, the Peasants ' Revolt ( 1381 ).

Walsingham is the main authority for the history of England during the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, including the Peasants Revolt rising under Wat Tyler in 1381.

Courtenay was for a short time chancellor of England during 1381, and in January 1382 he officiated at the marriage of Richard II with Anne of Bohemia, afterwards crowning the queen.

Chelmsford was significantly involved in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, and Richard II moved on to the town after quelling the rebellion in London.

" Richard II famously revoked the charters which he had made in concession to the peasants on 2 July 1381, while in Chelmsford.

Billericay's most notable historical episode was on 28 June 1381, when King Richard II's soldiers defeated Essex rebels at Norsey Wood.

Chichele was the third and youngest son of Thomas Chicheley, who appears in 1368 in still extant town records of Higham Ferrers as a suitor in the mayor's court, and in 1381 – 1382, and again in 1384 – 1385, was mayor: in fact, for a dozen years he and Henry Barton, schoolmaster of Higham Ferrers grammar school, and one Richard Brabazon, filled the mayoralty in turns.

The most famous fishmonger is Sir William Walworth, who, as Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1381, ended the Peasants ' Revolt by stabbing the rebel Wat Tyler to death at Smithfield in the presence of King Richard II.

In 1381, Richard II of England appointed him as ambassador to the Roman Court.

A Victorian historical novel ascribes the following five children to her: a ) Richard, born December 21, 1376, and died issueless, June 24, 1396 ; b ) Elizabeth, born 1379, wife of Sir William Marny ; c ) Philippa, born 1381, wife of Robert Passele ; d ) Alice, born at Kilquyt, September 1, 1384, wife of Guy de Saint Albino

Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel and 10th Earl of Surrey, KG ( 13 October 1381 – 13 October 1415 ) was an English nobleman, one of the principals of the deposition of Richard II, and a major figure during the reign of Henry IV.

The Waldegrave family descends from Sir Richard Waldegrave, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1381 to 1382.

* Richard le Strange, 7th Baron Strange ( 1381 – 1449 )

When the rebels had dispersed, Ball was taken prisoner at Coventry, given a trial in which, unlike most, he was permitted to speak, and hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II on 15 July 1381, his head subsequently stuck on a pike on London Bridge.

* Richard Lyons, ( killed 1381 ), royal councillor who was imprisoned by the Good Parliament in 1376 on suspicion of embezzlement

In 1381, 60, 000 Men of Essex camped here and met Richard II at Mile End, on 14 June 1381, during the Peasants ' Revolt.

Richard II of England | Richard II meets the rebels calling for economic and political reform during the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381

Edward's grandson, the young Richard II, faced political and economic problems, many resulting from the Black Death, including the Peasants ' Revolt that broke out across the south of England in 1381.

** Peter ( 1322 – 1381 ), a younger son of James II of Aragon.

James of Baux, the nephew of Philip II of Taranto, claimed the Principality of Achaea after her deposition in 1381.

However, when Joan was imprisoned in Naples in 1381, another, much younger, James, James of Baux, grandson of Catherine and nephew of Philip II, who in 1374 had become titular Emperor of Constantinople, used the opportunity and seized Achaea.

He was a son of II Laird of Wilton Henry Wardlaw who was b. 1318, and a nephew of Walter Wardlaw ( d. 1390 ), Bishop of Glasgow, who is said to have been made a cardinal by the antipope Clement VII in 1381.

The oldest document, referring to the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden for the residents of the burgh to help boost trade with Flanders.

* John II, Count of Blois ( died 1381 )

* John II, Count of Saarbrücken ( before 1325 – 1381 )

* John II ( 1372 – 1381 )

* Guy II ( 1381 – 1397 )

Largely due to his father's name and the memory of his godmother, Philip was a leader of Ghent in 1381 at the head of the burgher's rebellion against Count Louis II of Flanders.

* 1381 – Peasants ' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.

The introduction of a poll tax in medieval England was the primary cause of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt.

The English peasants ' revolt of 1381 led to calls for the reform of feudalism in England and an increase in rights for serfs.

The Peasants ' Revolt, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event in the history of England.

* Christopher Hampton ( 1984 ), A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England, 1381 – 1914

She was known to have been a very kind person and popular with the people of England, for example she was well known for her tireless attempts to ' intercede ' on behalf of the people, procuring pardons for people in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, and numerous other pardons for wrongdoers.

Sir John Cavendish of Cavendish ( c. 1346 – 15 June 1381 ) came from Cavendish, Suffolk, England.

At the same time, increasing unrest and uprisings by serfs and peasants, like Tyler ’ s Rebellion in England in 1381, put pressure on the nobility and the clergy to reform the system.

In England, the end of serfdom began with the Peasants ' Revolt in 1381.

Simon Sudbury, also called Simon Theobald of Sudbury and Simon of Sudbury ( born circa 1316 ; killed in the Peasants ' Revolt 14 June 1381 ) was Bishop of London from 1361 to 1375, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1375 until his death, and in the last year of his life Lord Chancellor of England.

Jack Straw ( probably the same person as John Rakestraw or Rackstraw ) was one of the three leaders ( together with John Ball and Wat Tyler ) of the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, a major event in the history of England.

An undercurrent of political thought which has run through English society for many generations and resurfaced from time to time ( for example, the Peasants ' Revolt in 1381 ) was present in some of the political factions of the 17th century, including those who formed the Diggers, and held the common belief that England had become subjugated by the " Norman Yoke.

In 1381, an uprising against the tax collectors of Brentwood quickly spread first to the surrounding villages, then throughout the South-East of England, but it was the rebels of Essex, led by a priest named Jack Straw, and the men of Kent, led by Wat Tyler, who marched on London.

* The English peasants ' revolt of 1381 or Great Rising of 1381 is a major event in the history of England.

Richard II of England | Richard II meets the rebels in 1381, in the lively if pedestrian style of Loiset Lyédet