Timeline Saturday 8 June 1405

Events on Saturday 8 June 1405 3

• 1350 – 1405 Richard Scrope (1350-1405) Died 8 June 1405, aged 55 Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, led a rebellion against King Henry IV of England alongside Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal. Captured and tried for treason, he became the first archbishop in English history to be executed. His death provoked widespread unease about the Crown's authority over the Church.
• 1385 – 1405 Thomas Mowbray (1385-1405) Died 8 June 1405, aged 19 Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal of England, joined Archbishop Richard Scrope in rebellion against Henry IV over grievances with royal governance. The rising collapsed without battle after the rebels were lured into negotiations and arrested. Mowbray was executed alongside Scrope near York.
• 1405 Scrope's Rebellion against Henry IV Northern English rising crushed without a battle Archbishop Richard Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal, raised forces in Yorkshire to protest Henry IV's governance and taxation. Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, tricked the rebels into disbanding by promising to hear their grievances, then arrested their leaders. Both Scrope and Mowbray were executed on 8 June 1405.