1390s in England

Events from the 1390s in England.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Richard II (to 30 September 1399), then Henry IV

Events

 * 1390
 * Parliament passes a statute forbidding retainers to wear livery whilst off-duty.
 * Statute of Provisors prohibits clergy from accepting benefices from the Pope.
 * September – the future King Henry IV of England supports the Teutonic Knights at the siege of Vilnius in the Lithuanian Civil War.
 * John Gower's poem Confessio Amantis is completed.
 * 1391
 * Parliament re-asserts royal prerogatives.
 * 1392
 * King Richard II retakes control of London.
 * Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester created Lieutenant of Ireland but forbidden to actually travel there.
 * Penistone Grammar School, which will in the late 20th century become one of the first community comprehensive schools in England, is founded near Barnsley.
 * 1393
 * Hundred Years' War: Peace negotiations between England and France at Calais.
 * Rebellion in northern England protesting at peace negotiations with France is quickly suppressed.
 * Statute of Praemunire makes it an offence to promote Papal Bulls or excommunications.
 * The hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall is commissioned from royal carpenter Hugh Herland.
 * Approximate date – Julian of Norwich begins to write Revelations of Divine Love about her sixteen mystical visions.
 * 1394
 * 2 October – King Richard leads an expedition to Ireland to enforce his rule there.
 * 25 December – Richard defines the borders of English rule in Ireland; later to become known as the English Pale.
 * First scholars enter Winchester College.
 * 1395
 * 15 May – Richard leaves Ireland, having achieved his objectives.
 * Lollard manifesto The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards attached to the doors of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
 * 1396
 * 9 March – Hundred Years' War: 28-year truce signed with France.
 * 25 September – Thomas Arundel succeeds William Courtenay as Archbishop of Canterbury.
 * 31 October – marriage of the widowed Richard II of England (29) and 6-year-old Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.
 * 1397
 * 10 February – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.
 * 6 June – Richard Whittington is nominated as Lord Mayor of London for the first time.
 * 12 July – Richard II attempts to reassert authority over his kingdom by arresting members of a group of powerful barons known as the Lords Appellant.
 * September – Parliament condemns the Lords Appellant, impeaching Duke of Gloucester, Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick.
 * 29 September – John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II. Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's nephew, is created Duke of Surrey.
 * 8 November – Roger Walden enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury after Thomas Arundel is banished from the realm by King Richard II.
 * 1398
 * 27 January – Parliament meets at Shrewsbury and annuls the acts of the 1388 Parliament.
 * 16 September – King Richard stops a duel between his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.
 * October – King Richard II exiles both Henry Bolingbroke and the Duke of Norfolk for ten years in order to end their feud.
 * Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire by Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey.
 * 1399
 * 3 February – death of John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II and father of Henry Bolingbroke.
 * 18 March – Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.
 * 23 April – St George's Day in England is first officially celebrated as a holiday.
 * 29 May – Richard travels to Ireland to suppress a rebellion.
 * 4 July – Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.
 * 19 August – having returned from Ireland, Richard is taken prisoner by Henry's followers at Conway Castle.
 * 29 September – abdication of Richard II, a second for an English monarch.
 * 30 September – Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king, the first since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue is English rather than French.
 * 13 October – coronation of Henry IV of England.
 * 21 October – Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
 * First definite record of beer (rather than ale) being brewed in England, at Great Yarmouth by Peter Woutersone, a "Ducheman".

Births

 * 1390
 * 3 October – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447)
 * 27 December – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the throne (died 1411)
 * John Dunstaple, composer (died 1453)
 * 1391
 * 6 November – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, politician (died 1425)
 * Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (died 1415)
 * 1392
 * 3 February – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (died 1455)
 * 3 August – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (born at Calais; died 1432)
 * 12 or 31 August – William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville (executed 1461)
 * 1394
 * Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (died 1415)
 * 1395
 * 18 March – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, military leader (died 1447)
 * 7 September – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, politician (died 1427)
 * 1396
 * 16 October – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (died 1450)
 * John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros (died 1421)
 * 1398
 * Approximate date
 * James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (killed 1459)
 * William Waynflete, born William Patten, Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (died 1486)
 * 1399
 * Approximate date – William Canynge, merchant (died 1474)

Deaths

 * 1390
 * 14 August – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, soldier (born 1364)
 * 1392
 * John Arderne, surgeon (born 1307)
 * 1393
 * 22 February – John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux (year of birth unknown)
 * 6 August – John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (born 1365)
 * 1394
 * 17 March – John Hawkwood, mercenary (born 1320)
 * 4 June – Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV (born c. 1369)
 * 7 June – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II (plague) (born 1366)
 * 1396
 * 31 July – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1342)
 * 29 November – Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem (born 1373)
 * John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (born 1361)
 * 1397
 * 25 April – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (born c. 1350)
 * 3 June – William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, military leader (born 1328)
 * 15 September – Adam Easton, Catholic Cardinal (year of birth unknown)
 * 21 September – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, military leader (executed) (born 1346)
 * 1398
 * 20 July – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (born 1374)
 * 1399
 * 3 February – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (born 1340)
 * 24 March – Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk (born c. 1320)
 * 29 July – William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (executed) (born 1350)
 * 22 September – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, politician (born 1366)