The military climax of the Lords Appellant crisis that humiliated Richard II. His favourite Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, marched an army south to support Richard but was intercepted at Radcot Bridge. De Vere's force melted away; he escaped by swimming the Thames and fled to France, dying in exile. The Appellants then controlled the government through the "Merciless Parliament." Richard remembered the humiliation until his revenge a decade later.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Oxfordshire