Thomas Plantagenet was the youngest son of Edward III and the uncle of Richard II, who was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1380 as Earl of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester in 1385, participating in a series of wars against France in the 80s of the 14th century.
Richard Ficharon, an admiral of the English Southwest, was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1386 as Count of Arundel, and in March 1387 he led the LinkedIn naval fleet to defeat the combined fleet of France-Castile-Flanders.
Thomas Beecham , son of Thomas Beecham, Earl of Warwick and son-in-law of Robert Erford, Earl of Suffolk, was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1373 and was elected as an admiral of the British Northern Navy , whose main duty was to defend the northern part of the Kingdom of England against the Scottish attack.
Henri Plantagenet, Earl of Derby, later Henry IV, was the cousin of Richard II and son of John of Gunter, Duke of Lancaster, who was knighted with Richard II at the St. George's Day celebration in 1377 and was elected a member of the Order of the Garter.
Thomas Mowbray , son of John Mowbray , was one of the generals who defended the northern part of England against the Scots during the Hundred Years' War and helped Richard Ficharon defeat the French navy in 1387.
In the early period of the reign of Richard II, because he was too young to be pro-government, according to the custom, the military and political power of Britain was controlled by the Duke of Gloucester and others, and Richard II felt restrained and began to reuse a group of emerging nobles led by Michael de Lapole, Earl of Suffolk, to suppress the Duke of Gloucester, which greatly dissatisfied the Duke of Gloucester and others.
The official establishment of the "Appellate Nobility" group was marked by the one-year commission established in November 1386. Prior to this, the "Appellate Nobility" group held a rally to publicly criticize Richard II's favored and unfaithful behavior, followed by the "Wonderful Parliament", and Richard II was forced to reach a compromise with the "Appellate Nobility" group.
In 1387, the "Appellate Nobility" group launched an armed rebellion against Richard II, and in a skirmish at Radcote Bridge in Oxfordshire, the army of the "Appellate Nobles" group defeated the army of Richard II, led by Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford. From then until 1389, English politics was under the control of the "appellate aristocracy", and Richard II's supporters lost power in three years.
After this, although the British political situation ostensibly entered a period of peace, the conflict between Richard II and the appellate aristocracy was not resolved, and the House of Lords was now controlled by the "appellate aristocracy" and its supporters, and Richard II turned to other ways to win allies.
After this, the focus of the conflict shifted to the election of the Order of the Garter, and both sides tried to gain numerical superiority within the Order of the Garter, with supporters of the "Appeal Nobility" and supporters of Richard II alternately elected to the Order of the Garter.
Henry Percy and Peter Courtney were staunch supporters of Richard II and the "Appellate Nobility" group respectively, and in 1388 they were jointly elected to the Order of the Garter. The same is true of Robert de Vere and Thomas Mowbray, who were previously selected.
Thomas Luderspencer and John DeVrow, who were selected in the same year, supported the "Appeal Nobility" group. By the time of Richard II's reign in 1389, supporters of the "appellate nobility" group had a numerical advantage in the Order of the Garter.
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