Edward III dies at Sheen
June 1377
The fifty-year king who had begun the Hundred Years' War, founded the Order of the Garter, and presided over the plague died senile in Surrey, allegedly stripped of his rings by his mistress as he expired. His ten-year-old grandson Richard II inherited a kingdom of veterans, debts, and angry peasants.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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