Describe the peasant revolts in 1300s.
Why did they occur?
Were they successful?
Answers
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of London. The final trigger for the revolt was the intervention of a royal official, John Bampton, in Essex on 30 May 1381.
Peasants' Revolt, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion, (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its was caused due to the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1381, The poll tax riots were a series of riots in British towns and cities during protests against the Community Charge, introduced by the of Prime Minister. It brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century.
The Peasants' Revolt started in Essex on 30 May 1381, when a tax collector tried, for the third time in four years, to levy a poll tax . Richard II's war against France was going badly, the government's reputation was damaged, and the tax was 'the last straw'.