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Events on Thursday 21 September 1397 2
1346 – 1397Richard FitzAlan, 4th Earl of Arundel (1346-1397)Died 21 September 1397, aged 51Richard 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.
1397Richard II Purges the Lords AppellantKing moves against the magnates who had curbed his power a decade earlierIn 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.