Richard The Lionheart: Rebellion !!LINK!!
Richard was born on 8 September 1157 in Oxford, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He possessed considerable political and military ability. However, like his brothers, he fought with his family, joining them in the great rebellion against their father in 1173. In 1183 his brother Henry died, leaving Richard heir to the throne. Henry II wanted to give Aquitaine to his youngest son, John. Richard refused and, in 1189, joined forces with Philip II of France against his father, hounding him to a premature death in July 1189.
Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion
Aquitaine, which was Richard's inheritance, was also a feuding (fighting) region. Its nobles were always rebelling against the rulers in Poitiers. By 1169 Henry II had managed to get these dukes and counts in line, but four years later family peace was threatened by a rebellion of sons against their father. Richard joined his older brother Henry, already proclaimed the next king, and younger brother Geoffrey, duke of Brittany, in open rebellion against Henry II. Their mother, Eleanor, angry at her husband for his continual cheating with other women, encouraged her sons. Henry II invaded Aquitaine and quickly put this rebellion down, but Richard was the last to give in. The sons were forced to pledge loyalty to their father; Richard lost the title of duke of Aquitaine and had to take orders directly from his father.
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part Two deals in part with yet another northern rebellion under the leadership of Lord Scrope*, Archbishop of York. But the execution of the Archbishop was unpopular and his tomb became a place of pilgrimage. Archbishop Scrope was the first ecclesiastic in England to be condemned in a civil court by secular authorities.
Shakespeare combines Scrope's rebellion with the activities of the Earl of Northumberland, conspicuously absent at Shrewsbury, who continued to stir up trouble until Henry's victory at Bramham Moor (1408). Owain Glyndwr remained for long a going concern, though the Welsh were temporarily subdued around the same time.
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1179. Henry II is King of England, Wales, Ireland, Normandy, Brittany and Aquitaine. The House of Plantagenet reigns supreme. But there is unrest in Henry's house. Not for the first time, his family talks of rebellion. Ferdia - an Irish nobleman taken captive during the conquest of his homeland - saves the life of Richard, the king's son. In reward for his bravery, he is made squire to Richard, who is already a renowned warrior. Crossing the English Channel, the two are plunged into a campaign to crush rebels in Aquitaine. 041b061a72