Timeline September 1397

Events in September 1397 3

• 1346 – 1397 Richard FitzAlan, 4th Earl of Arundel (1346-1397) Died 21 September 1397, aged 51 Richard FitzAlan, 4th Earl of Arundel, was an English nobleman and one of the Lords Appellant who opposed Richard II in 1388. Arrested in the king's purge of 1397, he was tried for treason by a subservient parliament and beheaded on Tower Hill in London.
• 1355 – 1397 Thomas of Woodstock (1355-1397) Died 8 September 1397, aged 42 Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, was the youngest son of Edward III and a leader of the Lords Appellant who curtailed Richard II's power in 1388. Arrested on the king's orders in July 1397, he was imprisoned at Calais and died there in custody, almost certainly murdered by suffocation on Richard's instructions.
• 1397 Richard II Purges the Lords Appellant King moves against the magnates who had curbed his power a decade earlier In July 1397 Richard II of England had the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Arundel and Warwick arrested, the three nobles who had led the Lords Appellant against him in 1388. A parliament in September 1397 reversed the earlier judgments against the king, condemning Arundel to death and Warwick to exile while Gloucester died in custody at Calais. The purge marked the start of Richard's most autocratic years and set the stage for his overthrow two years later.