HIST 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Good Parliament, Socalled, Jacquerie
11 Apr 2015
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Too many sons, philippa has 12 children (5 sons who survived to adulthood) Through the end of edward"s last years, he had too many sons and problems came of this. Or age od discontent: extent to which the demographic shifts of the post-plague period created a kind of golden age for the peasantry o. Did have a series of strokes in the 1370s o had lots of sons (5 survived to adulthood) by the 1370s, In 1377, edward dies and the oldest son of his oldest son becomes king at 10 years old. John of gaunt, duke of lancaster was the great patron of geoffrey chaucer. He was also a patron of the theologian john wyclif. He had various kinds of ambitions to make a kingdom in iberia (spain). The taxes often collected in the year following the parliamentary grant, so the 1380 tax collected in 1381.
