Lords Appellant

The Lords Appellant were a group of nobles in the reign of King Richard II, who, in 1388, sought to impeach some five of the King's favourites in order to restrain what was seen as tyrannical and capricious rule. The word appellant simply means '[one who is] appealing [in a legal sense]'. It is the older (Norman) French form of the present participle of the verb appeler, the equivalent of the English 'to appeal'. The group was called the Lords Appellant because its members invoked a procedure under law to start prosecution of the king's unpopular favourites known as 'an appeal': the favourites were charged in a document called an appeal of treason, a device borrowed from civil law which led to some procedural complications.

https://thehistoryjar.com/2018/12/20/lords-appellant-leaping/ .

The Lords Appellant Part 1: A Great and Continual council
http://www.mercedesrochelle.com/wordpress/?p=1628

There were originally three Lords Appellant:
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III and thus the king's uncle;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_of_Woodstock,_1st_Duke_of_Gloucester
https://mittelzeit.blogspot.com/2019/03/thomas-of-woodstock.html

Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and of Surrey; and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_FitzAlan,_11th_Earl_of_Arundel
https://mittelzeit.blogspot.com/2019/03/richard-fitzalan.html

Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Beauchamp,_12th_Earl_of_Warwick

These were later joined by
Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby (the future king Henry IV)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England

and Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Mowbray,_1st_Duke_of_Norfolk
https://mittelzeit.blogspot.com/2019/03/thomas-de-mowbray-1st-duke-of-norfolk.html

Archbishop of York, Alexander Neville

The favourites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Vere,_Duke_of_Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_de_la_Pole,_1st_Earl_of_Suffolk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Neville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tresilian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brembre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Beauchamp,_1st_Baron_Beauchamp_(fourth_creation)
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/berners-sir-james-1361-88
https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-Salisbury/6000000023404281887
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Burley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_Appellant

The Lords Appellant Part 1: A Great and Continual council
http://www.mercedesrochelle.com/wordpress/?p=1628


Battle of Radcot Bridge - 19 December 1387 ..

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