London guild conflicts
| London guild conflicts | |||
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| Factional civic strife among London guilds Part of Urban politics in late medieval England during the reigns of Edward III and Richard II | |||
Plan of London about 1381 | |||
| Date | 1370s–1380s | ||
| Location | 51°30′46″N 0°05′30″W / 51.5129°N 0.0918°W | ||
| Caused by | Guild rivalries; Black Death; bullion shortage; heavy taxation; weak royal government; trade monopolies; disputes over civic self government | ||
| Goals | Control of civic offices and policy; regulation of markets (e.g. fishmongers’ monopoly); protection or reform of city liberties | ||
| Methods | Contested elections; petitions to Crown and Parliament; street mobilization and intimidation; legal prosecutions; occasional riots | ||
| Status | Resolved by 1390s; factional turbulence diminished thereafter | ||
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| Arrested | Notably the arrest and exile of John Northampton (1384); other detentions during contested elections, and executions of John Constantine and Nicholas Brembre | ||
| Overlapped with national crises including the Good Parliament (1376), Bad Parliament (1377), the Peasants' Revolt (1381), and the ascendancy of the Lords Appellant (1387–1388). | |||
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status, result.The London guild conflicts refer to period of intense civic conflict in the City of London during the 1370s and 1380s. The conflict was between rival political factions often centered on craft guilds or “misteries,” the predecessors of the later livery companies. These divisions reflected wider national divisions in the reigns of Edward III and Richard II and which largely centered around John of Gaunt's influence in the city.