Richard II's carefully planned coup against the men who had humiliated him in 1387. Gloucester was arrested at Pleshey, transported to Calais and murdered. Arundel was tried, convicted and beheaded — Richard reportedly said his hair was as cut as his. Warwick wept and confessed at trial. The coup temporarily made Richard II the most absolute English king since the Norman conquest — but his tyranny drove the Lancastrian revolution of 1399.
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