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PLANTAGENET, Richard II King of England

Male 1367 - 1400  (33 years)


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  • Name PLANTAGENET, Richard II 
    Suffix King of England 
    Birth 6 Jan 1367  Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
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    Death 6 Jan 1400  Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 1413  London, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17006  Puffers
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2020 

    Father PLANTAGENET, Edward Prince of Wales,   b. 15 Jun 1330, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1376, London, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Mother PLANTAGENET, Joan Fair Maid of Kent, Princess of Wales,   b. 29 Sep 1328, Woodstock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1385, Wallingford, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Marriage 10 Oct 1361  Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4592  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father PLANTAGENET, Edward Prince of Wales,   b. 15 Jun 1330, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1376, London, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 10 Oct 1361  Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F30025  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 OSTERRIECH, Anna Von,   b. 11 May 1366, Prague, Czechoslovakia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jun 1394, Surry, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years) 
    Marriage 20 Jan 1382  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2892  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

    Family 2 Isabella de France,   b. 9 Nov 1389, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1409, Chateau-Du-Bois-De-Vincennes, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 19 years) 
    Marriage 1 Nov 1396  Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2893  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Richard was the eighth King of England of the House of Plantagenet. He ruled from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III. At the age of four, Richard became second in line to the throne when his older brother Edward of Angoul'eame died, and heir apparent when his father died in 1376. With Edward III's death the following year , Richard succeeded to the throne at the age of ten. In 1399, after his uncle, John of Gaunt died, the king disinherited Gaunt's son, Henry of Bolingbroke, who had previously been exiled (to France). Henry invaded England in June 1399 with a small force that quickly grew in numbers. Claiming initially that his goal was only to reclaim his patrimony, it soon became clear that he intended to claim the throne for himself. Meeting little resistance, Bolingbroke deposed Richard and had himself crowned as King Henry IV. Richard died in captivity early the next year, probably murdered. One account has him dead of starvation and thirst. As an individual, Richard was tall, good-looking and intelligent. Though probably not insane, as earlier historians used to believe, he seems to have suffered from certain personality disorders, especially towards the end of his reign. Less of a warrior than either his father or grandfather, he sought to bring an end to the Hundred Years War that Edward III had started. He was a firm believer in the royal prerogative, something which led him to restrain the power of his nobility, and rely on a private retinue for military protection instead. He also cultivated a courtly atmosphere where the king was an elevated figure, and art and culture were at the centre, in contrast to the fraternal, martial court of his grandfather. Richard's posthumous reputation has to a large extent been shaped by Shakespeare, whose play Richard II portrayed Richard's misrule and Bolingbroke's deposition as responsible for the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses. Contemporary historians do not accept this interpretation, while not thereby exonerating Richard from responsibility for his own deposition. Most authorities agree that, even though his pol cies were not unprecedented or entirely unrealistic, the way in which he carried them out was unacceptable to the political establishment, and this led to his downfall.