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Wat Tyler
Leader of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, killed while negotiating with Richard II in London
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When lords tightened their grip on the peasants after the Black Death and heavy war taxes were levied, the Jacquerie broke out in France (1358) and Wat Tyler’s Rebellion in England (1381).
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing