England
Baronial Revolt
Richard early on stressed royalism; he ruled with his council, a circle of hand-picked men, most of whom were not barons. He ignored Parliament and the lords of England.
His favorites were seen and greedy and incompetent. Some were, but it was also convenient for their enemies to portray them in that light. This was an old tension in England. The traditional nobility demanded their traditional say, but they often proved that they were more interested in their own agenda rather than what the king wanted. But if the king turned to other advisers, mistrusting his treacherous barons, they rebelled because they were being denied their rightful place. If a king was successful in war, or was a good leader, then he could sometimes hold the barons at bay, but Richard was neither.
The Lords and Commons combined to harry out a number of Richard's favorites and to claim extensive rights in 1388. In 1389 Richard, at age twenty-two, finally ended his minority.
1389-1397
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