Posted on 05/05/2023 1:15:55 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Sir Simon Burley lost his head on this date in 1388 to the fury of the Lords Appellant.
The childhood tutor of the young King Richard II, Burley had come up in the world as a bosom friend and comrade in arms to Richard’s uncle, Edward the Black Prince. A few years prior it had been entrusted to Burley to sojourn on the continent and arrange Richard’s wife, Anne of Bohemia — and a good job it was for him too since he was away when his head might have wound up on a pike during the 1381 peasants’ rebellion.
Instead, it would be peers in the court who dished out that treatment.....
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Always an interesting site.
Not noted: The chaos, and the reorganization of society, that followed the mid-century Great Plague.
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