1390s in England

Events from the 1390s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch – Richard II, then Henry IV

Events

1390

* Parliament passes a statute forbidding retainers to wear livery whilst off-duty.
* Statute of Provisors prohibits clergy from accepting benefices from the Pope.
* September – the future King Henry IV of England supports the Teutonic Knights at the siege of Vilnius in the Lithuanian Civil War.
* John Gower's poem Confessio Amantis is completed.1391
* Parliament re-asserts royal prerogatives.1392
* King Richard II retakes control of London.
* Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester created Lieutenant of Ireland but forbidden to actually travel there.
* Penistone Grammar School, which will in the late 20th century become one of the first community comprehensive schools in England, is founded near Barnsley.1393
*Hundred Years' War: Peace negotiations between England and France at Calais.
* Rebellion in northern England protesting at peace negotiations with France is quickly suppressed.
* Statute of Praemunire makes it an offence to promote Papal Bulls or excommunications.
* The hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall is commissioned from royal carpenter Hugh Herland.
* Approximate date – Julian of Norwich begins to write Revelations of Divine Love about her sixteen mystical visions.1394
* 2 October – King Richard leads an expedition to Ireland to enforce his rule there.
* 25 December – Richard defines the borders of English rule in Ireland; later to become known as the English Pale.
* First scholars enter Winchester College.1395
* 15 May – Richard leaves Ireland, having achieved his objectives.
*Lollard manifesto The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards attached to the doors of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.1396
* 9 March – Hundred Years' War: 28-year truce signed with France.
* 25 September – Thomas Arundel succeeds William Courtenay as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 31 October – marriage of the widowed Richard II of England and 6-year-old Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.1397
* 10 February – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.
* 6 June – Richard Whittington is nominated as Lord Mayor of London for the first time.
* 12 July – Richard II attempts to reassert authority over his kingdom by arresting members of a group of powerful barons known as the Lords Appellant.
* September – Parliament condemns the Lords Appellant, impeaching Duke of Gloucester, Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick.
* 29 September – John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II. Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's nephew, is created Duke of Surrey.
* 8 November – Roger Walden enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury after Thomas Arundel is banished from the realm by King Richard II.1398
* 27 January – Parliament meets at Shrewsbury and annuls the acts of the 1388 Parliament.
* 16 September – King Richard stops a duel between his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.
* October – King Richard II exiles both Henry Bolingbroke and the Duke of Norfolk for ten years in order to end their feud.
* Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire by Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey.1399
* 3 February – death of John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II and father of Henry Bolingbroke.
* 18 March – Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.
* 23 April – St George's Day in England is first officially celebrated as a holiday.
* 29 May – Richard travels to Ireland to suppress a rebellion.
* 4 July – Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.
* 19 August – having returned from Ireland, Richard is taken prisoner by Henry's followers at Conway Castle.
* 29 September – abdication of Richard II, a second for an English monarch.
* 30 September – Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king, the first since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue is English rather than French.
* 13 October – coronation of Henry IV of England.
* 21 October – Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
* First definite record of beer being brewed in England, at Great Yarmouth by Peter Woutersone, a "Ducheman".

Births

1390
* 3 October – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
* 27 December – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the throne
* John Dunstaple, composer
1391
* 6 November – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, politician
* Thomas West, 2nd Baron West
1392
* 3 February – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
* 3 August – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
* 12 or 31 August – William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville
1394
* Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
1395
* 18 March – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, military leader
* 7 September – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, politician
1396
* 16 October – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
*John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros
1398
* Approximate date
** James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley
** William Waynflete, born William Patten, Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester
1399
* Approximate date – William Canynge, merchant

Deaths

1390
* 14 August – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, soldier
1392
* John Arderne, surgeon
1393
* 22 February – John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux
* 6 August – John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros
1394
* 17 March – John Hawkwood, mercenary
* 4 June – Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV
* 7 June – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II
1396
* 31 July – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 29 November – Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem
* John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle
1397
* 25 April – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
* 3 June – William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, military leader
* 15 September – Adam Easton, Catholic Cardinal
* 21 September – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, military leader
1398
* 20 July – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England
1399
* 3 February – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
* 24 March – Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk
* 29 July – William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
* 22 September – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, politician