Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard's father, Edward, Prince of Wales, died in ...

The Latin inscription around the ledge of the tomb can be translated: Sage and elegant, lawfully Richard II, conquered by fate he lies here ... the arms of Edward the Confessor impaling France and ...

Richard II: King of the White Hart When Richard II succeeded his grandfather, Edward III, he turned to alchemy to create a more pious ideal of kingship. His reign left us one of medieval England’s ...

And now it seemed that nothing stood between Richard and such an absolutism as no King of England had ever enjoyed. But his finishing stroke had been an act so arbitrary, so utterly impossible to ...

Besides commissioning a new roof for Westminster Hall, King Richard II (1377-99) was also responsible for several ... the fleur-de-lys of France quartered with the three lions, or leopards, of England ...

Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity ... by the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority. Richard II is played by Jonathan Bailey ...