The Peasant's Revolt
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- Created on: 18-11-18 15:41
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- The Peasant's Revolt
- Key Events:
- Economic difficulties in 1300s as the harvest fell by 50%
- 100 Year War with France 1337 - 1453
- 1377 - 1st Poll Tax
- 1379 - Second Poll Tax
- 1381 - 3rd Poll Tax equivalent to 2 weeks wages of a labourer
- Peasants Revolt
- 1381 - 3rd Poll Tax equivalent to 2 weeks wages of a labourer
- 1379 - Second Poll Tax
- 1377 - 120 French ships attacked Rye
- 1348 - 1349, The Black Death - approx 50% of the population died
- 1377 - 1st Poll Tax
- 100 Year War with France 1337 - 1453
- Economic difficulties in 1300s as the harvest fell by 50%
- Who was involved:
- Richard III
- King of England, 14 in 1381, 11 when crowned
- John Ball
- Inspirational priest, hanged drawn and quartered, then separated across the kingdom
- Wat Tyler
- General leader of the rebels, responsible for discipline
- Simon Sudbury
- Archbishop of Canterbury in 1381
- Richard III
- Aims
- An end to Poll Tax
- An end to the war in France
- Methods
- Beheading the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King's treasurer
- Mass protests and marches
- Outcomes
- Rebel leaders executed
- All villeins free by 1450
- Disaster for the peasants
- Significance
- Referenced in the strikes of 1989 over the only other ever proposed Poll Tax
- Nothing happened immediately
- All villeins free by 1450
- Disaster for the peasants as King Richard ignored demands and made and example of John Bull's body
- Key Events:
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