Invade the Tower: Peasants' Revolt 1381

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I’ve made a few videos on people who have escaped from the Tower of London… today, I think it’s about time we look at the time the Tower of London was breached…

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]

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Linked videos and playlists:

Tower Escapes playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnWtthsbeLjh7KQZ4WxwQqQVC2d3kOeNa

Henry Tudor's Right to Rule?: John of Gaunt, Katherine Swynford and the Beaufort Line: https://youtu.be/GC5ePwOLVao

Danger of Boy Kings: https://youtu.be/8UUo9V0SE1s

William Shakespeare's Richard II: https://youtu.be/hHNKIf4-YFE

Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Medieval representation of a sheep pen from the Luttrell Psalter (c.1325 –35). Reproduced in Linda Kalof, Looking at Animals in Human History (Reaktion Books, 2007).

Medieval illustration of men harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks, on a calendar page for August. Queen Mary's Psalter (Ms. Royal 2. B. VII), fol. 78v[1]. (c.1310).

An illustration of the priest John Ball ("Jehã Balle") on a horse encouraging Wat Tyler's rebels ("Waultre le tieulier") of 1381, from a c.1470 manuscript of Jean Froissart's Chronicles in the British Library (Royal 18 E. I f.165v)

Richard II of England with his court after his coronation from the Chronicle of Jean de Wavrin (1479/80). Held by the British Library Royal 14 E IV f. 10.

Portrait of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster attributed to Lucas Cornelisz de Kock (c.1593). Held in an unidentified private collection.

Detail of a miniature of the English landing in Normandy. Chroniques de France ou de St Denis (from 1270 to 1380) by Virgil Master and his atelier (last quarter of the 14th century, after 1380). Held by the British Library http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=42554Author

Archery practice (longbowmen) in the Luttrell Psalter (1325).

Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 from manuscript by Jean Froissart (between 1401 and 1500). Held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

A depiction of the imprisonment of Charles, Duke of Orléans, in the Tower of London from a manuscript of poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans. The White Tower is visible, St Thomas' Tower (also known as Traitor's Gate) is in front of it, and in the foreground is the River Thames (late 15th century). Held by the British Library MS Royal, 16 folio 73.

Screenshot showing peasants from Monty Python.

Photograph of St John's Chapel inside the White Tower at the Tower of London, England taken by Bernard Gagnon (2007).

The murder of Simon Sudbury, the Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Robert Hales, Treasurer of England, and the prior of the Hospitallers, in the Tower of London by rebels during the Peasant's Revolt, 14 June 1381 Chroniques de France et d'Angleterre, Book II (c.1460-80). Held by the British Library, Royal 18 E. I, f.172.

Henry Bolingbroke and Richard II at Flint Castle from an illuminated manuscript page of Jean Creton's La Prinse et Mort du roy Richart ("The Capture and Death of King Richard") (early fifteenth century). Held by the British Library Harley MS 1319.

The Death of Wat Tyler from a manuscript by Jean Froissart (15th century). Held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Bib. Nat. Fr. 2644, fol. 159v).

Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund (The Wilton Diptych) by an unknown artist (between c.1395-1399). Held by the National Gallery.

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