The hopes of both did not deceive them, for Wojciech, rising in rank, became a priest, and soon from being a Kraków scholastic, as Dlugosz says, or from being a Kraków dean and Poznan pastor, he became the mitred prelate of Poznan in 1399 ; tearing down the wooden church in Bensowa, he had a brick one built in 1407, and later settled the friars of St. Paul the Hermit there, and gave it the villages of Bensowa, Bensowka, Bydlowa, and Bystronowice.

The Wilton Diptych ( c. 1395 – 1399 ) is a small portable diptych of two hinged panels, painted on both sides.

The behaviour of the two junior Lords Appellant, Bolingbroke and Mowbray, probably influenced Richard's decision in 1399 to exile them both, and to revoke the permission he had given them to sue for any inheritance which fell due, as it did in relation to Mowbray's grandmother and, more significantly, of Bolingbroke's father, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

Henry's coronation, on 13 October 1399, marked the first time following the Norman Conquest when the monarch made an address in English.

Fitzalan followed Henry in his return to England in July 1399, and in the following events which led to the deposition of King Richard II and Henry's crowning as King Henry IV.

He regained his father's title on Henry's accession in 1399, and died at the Siege of Harfleur.

The Stanleys had been among the earliest supporters of Henry Bolingbroke ’ s bid to win the English throne for the House of Lancaster in 1399 and Stanley ’ s great, grandfather Sir John Stanley, had been richly rewarded for his assistance.

* 1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

* Richard II ( 1367 – 1400 ) was the King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.

At first he tried to mediate in the imperial confusion between King Wenceslaus and the party of Rupert of the Palatinate, but he fought on the side of Rupert in September 1399 nonetheless.

1351 / 1362 – 1 June 1434 ) was Grand Duke of Lithuania ( 1377 – 1434 ), jure uxoris King of Kingdom of Poland ( 1386 – 1399 ), and sole King of Poland ( 1399 – 1434 ).

In 1399, French King Charles VI sent Marshal Boucicaut with 6 ships carrying 1, 200 men from Aigues-Mortes to Constantinople, later 300 men under Seigneur Jean de Chateaumorand remained to defend the city against Bayezid.

Henry IV ( 3 April 1367 – 20 March 1413 ) was King of England and Lord of Ireland ( 1399 – 1413 ).

Catherine's older sister, Isabella of Valois, was Queen consort of England from 1396 – 1399, as the child bride of King Richard II of England.

The House of Lancaster was established on the throne of England in 1399, when Henry Bolingbroke, the Duke of Lancaster, deposed his unpopular cousin King Richard II, and was crowned Henry IV.

John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( second creation ), KG ( 6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399 ) was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.

When John died in 1399, his estates were declared forfeit as King Richard II had exiled John's son and heir, Henry Bolingbroke, in 1398, for 10 years.

Bolingbroke then reigned as King Henry IV of England ( 1399 – 1413 ), the first of the descendants of John of Gaunt to hold the throne of England.

It is based on the life of King Richard II of England ( ruled 1377 – 1399 ) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, Part 1 ; Henry IV, Part 2 ; and Henry V. It may not have been written as a stand-alone work.

He may have expected the assembled peers to acclaim him as King, as they had acclaimed Henry Bolingbroke in 1399.

King Richard II of England directed in his will that his body should be clothed in velveto in 1399.

However, when Henry Duke of Lancaster ascended the throne as King Henry IV in 1399, he almost immediately began adding the monumental gatehouse.

It was instigated by King Henry IV, although legend attributes the work to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster from 1362 to his death in 1399.

King Richard II of England made two journeys to Ireland during his reign to rectify the situation ; as a direct result of his second visit in 1399 he lost his throne to Henry Bolingbroke.

* Henry ( of ) Bolingbroke, 3rd Earl of Derby ( 1367 – 1413 ) ( became King in 1399 )

In 1399 a convention of estates of the realm assembled to offer the throne to Henry Bolingbroke as King Henry IV of England after the deposition of King Richard II of England.

Both offices had been held by the Percy family in the fourteenth century, and their support of King Henry IV seemed to have paid off in 1399, when Henry Percy was appointed Warden of the West March and his son Hotspur as Warden of the East March.

The autocratic and arrogant methods of Richard II only served to alienate the nobility more, and his forceful dispossession in 1399 by Henry IV increased the turmoil.

When Richard II was forced to abdicate the throne in 1399, Henry was not next in line to the throne ; the heir presumptive was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, who descended from Edward III's second son, Lionel of Antwerp.

This made him heir to the throne according to Edward III's entail to the crown of 1376, but, as Dr. Ian Mortimer has recently pointed out in his biography of Henry IV, this had probably been supplanted by an entail of Richard II made in 1399 ( see Ian Mortimer, The Fears of Henry IV, appendix two, pp. 366 – 9 ).

Instead, his ships made for Ravenspurn, near the mouth of the River Humber, where Henry Bolingbroke had landed in 1399 on his way to reclaim the Duchy of Lancaster and ultimately depose Richard II.

After the deposition of Richard II of England in 1399, the House of Plantagenet split into the House of Lancaster and the House of York, whose antagonism culminated in the Wars of the Roses ( 1455 – 1487 ).

The deposition of Richard II in 1399 did not affect Whittington and it is thought that he merely acquiesced in the coup led by Bolingbroke.

Richard had it in his possession when he surrendered to his cousin, the future Henry IV of England in Wales in 1399.

Gaunt enjoyed great political influence during his lifetime, but upon his death in 1399, his lands were confiscated by Richard II.

Edmund Mortimer was the son of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, who had been named heir presumptive of Richard II, prior to the usurpation of the House of Lancaster, in the person of Henry Bolingbroke, in 1399.

In the Middle Ages, Spurn Head was home to the port of Ravenspurn ( a. k. a. Ravenspur or Ravensburgh ), where Henry Bolingbroke landed in 1399 on his return to dethrone Richard II.

He was created Duke of Aumale in 1397, and deprived of the dukedum 6 October 1399, as a consequence of the deposition of Richard II ; he succeeded his father as Duke of York in 1402.

The kin of the border earls took advantage of the confusion in England after the deposition of Richard II by Henry, Duke of Lancaster and harried and forayed into England causing much damage and taking Wark Castle around 13 October 1399.

* Richard II of England, ( 1377 – 1399 )

The Percys had previously supported Henry IV in a war against Richard II, which ended when Henry took the throne in 1399.

Thus it seems possible that Shakespeare, in conforming to the growing " Tudor Myth " of the day, as well as taking into account new theologies of divine action and human will becoming popular in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, sought to paint Richard as the final curse of God on England in punishment for the deposition of Richard II in 1399.

It withstood the siege of Madog ap Llywelyn in the winter of 1294 – 95, acted as a temporary haven for Richard II in 1399 and was held for several months by forces loyal to Owain Glyndŵr in 1401.