Lollardy was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation. It was initially led by John Wycliffe, a C
In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers.
Lollards' prison in Lambeth Palace, overlooking the River Thames in London
A late 14th-century beginning of the Gospel of John, starting with a large letter "I" in blue, from a pocket Wycliffe translation. It may have been used by a roving Lollard preacher
John Oldcastle being burnt for insurrection and Lollard heresy.
Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1413 until his death in 1422. His victory at Agincourt in 1415 and his conquest of Normandy gav
Lollardy
…to renounce his Lollardy. He was the first layman to suffer capital punishment in England for the crime of heresy. John Oldcastle, a close friend of Henry V of England and the basis for Falstaff in the Shakespearean history Henry IV, Part 1, was brought to trial in 1413 after evidence of his Lollard beliefs was…
Henry as Prince of Wales in the Regiment of Princes, c.1413 (MS Arundel 38)
Miniature of Henry's father, Henry IV, in the records of the Duchy of Lancaster, c.1402
Henry as Prince of Wales tries on his father's crown in a scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, engraving after Josiah Boydell, 1795
The Battle of Agincourt as depicted in Thomas Walsingham's St Albans Chronicle, c.1422