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Richard II

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Richard II 1367-1400.
King of England (1377-1399). He quelled the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 but spent the rest of his reign at odds with the baronial opposition in Parliament.
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Noun1.Richard IIRichard II - King of England from 1377 to 1399; he suppressed the Peasant's Revolt in 1381 but his reign was marked by popular discontent and baronial opposition in British Parliament and he was forced to abdicate in 1399 (1367-1400)
Plantagenet, Plantagenet line - the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485


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And in the time of which we have been reading, in the England where Edward III and Richard II ruled, where Langland sadly dreamed and Wyclif boldly wrote and preached, there lived a man who has left for us a clear and truthful picture of those times.
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Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies.
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