Definition of Richard II

1. Noun. King of England from 1377 to 1399; he suppressed the Peasant's Revolt in 1381 but his reign was marked by popular discontent and baronial opposition in British Parliament and he was forced to abdicate in 1399 (1367-1400).

Group relationships: Plantagenet, Plantagenet Line
Generic synonyms: King Of England, King Of Great Britain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Richard II

Richard Coeur de Lion
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Richard D. Fosbury
Richard E. Byrd
Richard E. Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley
Richard Erskine Leakey
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Richard Feynman
Richard Haldane
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Tawney
Richard Hooker
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
Richard I
Richard II (current term)
Richard III
Richard J. Roberts
Richard John Roberts
Richard Jordan Gatling
Richard Kuhn
Richard Leakey
Richard Lovelace
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Neville
Richard Nixon
Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Rodgers

Literary usage of Richard II

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The real Richard II, though infirm of purpose, was not the charming aesthete ... Editions of 'Richard II> published before Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 ..."

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright (1878)
"Compare Richard II. i. 4. 38 : 1 Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland Expedient manage must be made, my lord.' The surviving followers of Charles ..."

3. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"He was at the head of the reforming commission in the fifth of Richard II., though he had been studiously excluded from those preceding. ..."

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