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Events on Friday 8 September 1397 1
1355 – 1397Thomas of Woodstock (1355-1397)Died 8 September 1397, aged 42Thomas 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.