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Jun 10, 2022 · Tentatively titled The Hood, the film will evidently take place during the uprising of 1381, also known as the Great Rising and/or Wat Tyler's Rebellion. (Fun fact: there were actually several more minor rebellions and revolts that took place from the mid-fourteenth to fifteenth centuries in England, but this is the first, the largest, and the ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Simon Of Sudbury. Wat Tyler. Peasants’ Revolt, (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1380, which brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century.
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John Ball and Wat Tyler were the most well-known leaders of the revolt. Ball, a socialist priest, was described in the Anonimalle Chronicleas “a chaplain of evil disposition”. He was a clergyman and a prophet-like figure to the rebels, stating to them that “now was a time given to them by God”. Ball counselled them with the belief that “there be no...
The origins of the revolt lie in the Parliament held in 1380 at Northampton. Tensions had already been high between John of Gaunt and the citizens of London, after he threatened the bishop of London and involved himself in city and mercantile affairs. It was for this reason that Parliament was held in Northampton, rather than Westminster. Here, it ...
The Kent faction, led by Wat Tyler, torched a brothel run by Flemish women on London Bridge. Once they were admitted into the city, they gathered more recruits and stormed Fleet Prison, Temple, and the property of the master of the Hospital of St John in Farringdon. The most damage they did in London was to the Savoy Palace, the home of John of Gau...
After the death of Wat Tyler on 15 June, the rebels dispersed at the request of the king. But it was not over, and Richard was keen to make an example of the rebels. The remaining ringleaders were hunted down and executed. Richard visited Essex where the rising began and ordered a pacification of its people. Uprisings were quashed outside of London...
The revolt didn’t end feudalism, but it paved the way for its decline. In the decades that followed, there were fewer people bonded to their lords in serfdom and landowners were fearful of their workers rising against them. This in turn lead to fairer treatment of the working classes and their wages – which had been capped in the aftermath of the B...
After the death of Wat Tyler, Richard bravely and impulsively rode up to the rebels and stood before them. He told them to depart for their homes, that the rebellion was over. He performed the role of a benevolent king, merciful to his people and bade them to leave peacefully. He swore that he would grant their wishes and no harm would come to them...
May 2, 2021 · The Great Uprising of 1381 saw a group of dissatisfied peasants and their supporters march on London with demands that the king abolish serfdom and a new poll tax. The revolt remains one of the most widespread insurrections in English history, and it was inspired, in part, by the famous medieval poem Piers Plowman.
Feb 1, 2016 · The Peasants' Revolt of 1381. 1 February 2016 / 0 Comments. High and Late Medieval. Key facts about the Peasants' Revolt. The Peasants' Revolt was caused by social and economic pressures after the Black Death. and the wars with France. The 1380 poll tax. was the immediate cause. It started in Essex and Kent but spread quickly to other places.
Four years after Richard 's accession discontent came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. The causes of this rising were numerous. The deepest of them lay in the changes which had effected society since the time of the Black Death [1348-9 and 1361-2]. The demand for labour was still great, and the free labourers, who could hire ...
These films reveal that this extraordinary rebellion lit the flames of revolutionary change stretching across the whole of England and beyond, reverberating far past those hot summer days of 1381. The 14th Century is often called the worst century in the whole of British history - plague, war and famine!
