Late Middle Ages · Europe · Politics

1376

Good Parliament impeaches royal favorites

April 1376

English commons under speaker Peter de la Mare demanded the dismissal and trial of Edward III's mistress Alice Perrers and several court financiers accused of corruption. The new procedure, impeachment, made parliament a check on the executive for the first time. Within a year the dying king's heirs reversed the verdicts, but the precedent stood.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1375: Catalan Atlas compiled in Majorca
After: January 1377: Gregory XI returns the papacy to Rome

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1375: Hongwu purges his own officials
After: June 1377: Edward III dies at Sheen

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Good Parliament