1370s in England

• Monarch – Edward III (to 21 June 1377), then Richard II. ==Events==

• 1370 • 19 September – Hundred Years' War: Siege of Limoges – The English led by Edward the Black Prince retake the city from the French by storm with wide destruction. • 1371 • 28 March – The London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery, is founded in Aldersgate. • 21 September – John of Gaunt marries as his second wife Constance of Castile (daughter of King Peter of Castile), giving him a claim to the throne of Castile. • 1372 • June – Owain Lawgoch claims the title Prince of Wales, sails with French support from Harfleur and raids Guernsey in preparation for an attack on Wales. • 13 October – Richard II's first parliament meets. • Ongoing – Hundred Years' War: French fleet burns Rye, Hastings, Gravesend and Portsmouth, and raids the Isle of Wight. • Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School. • Hundred Years' War: French lose control of most of Brittany. ==Births==

• 1370 • John Lydgate, Benedictine monk and poet (died 1451). • 1373 • Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (died 1396). • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (died 1415). • 1374 • 11 April – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne (died 1398). • Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (died 1400). • 1375 • Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (approximate date; died 1414). • 1376 • 9 November – Edmund Mortimer, rebel (died 1409). • 1377 • Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor (died 1447). • 1378 • John Hardyng, chronicler (died 1465). • 1379 • Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (approximate date; died 1440). ==Deaths==

• 1372 • 8 or 15 January – Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny, soldier and benefactor (born c. 1310). • 11 January – Eleanor of Lancaster, noblewoman (born 1318). • 31 August – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, soldier (born 1301). • 1373 • Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (born 1342). • 1374 • 5 June – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury (year of birth unknown). • 1376 • 24 January – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, military leader (born c. 1313). • 8 June – Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (born 1330). • 22 July – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1310). • 1377 • 21 June – King Edward III of England (born 1312). • Sir John Minsterworth, soldier and traitor (hanged). • 1379 • 10 October – John Twenge, prior of Bridlington, canonized (born 1320). • 16 December – John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel (born c. 1348). ==References==