Southampton Plot
The Southampton Plot was a 1415 conspiracy against King Henry V to replace him with Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March . The three main culprits were Mortimer's brother-in-law Richard of Conisburgh, 1st Earl of Cambridge , Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (whose uncle Richard le Scrope was executed in 1405 for his involvement in a revolt) and Sir Thomas Gray of Heton .
The attack on the king was to take place shortly before the embarkation of the English troops for France, in connection with the resumption of the Hundred Years War . You should of Lollard -Revolten by Sir John Oldcastle in the west and the House Percy are supported in the north.
The potential beneficiary of the conspiracy, the Earl of March, was only informed shortly before the attack and promptly revealed the plan (on July 31, 1415) to the potential victim. The three leaders were immediately arrested and Gray was executed on August 3rd and the two peers on August 5th. Heinrich was able to set sail for France on August 11th.
literature
- Royle, Trevor: The Wars of the Roses; England's first civil war. Abacus, London, 2009, ISBN 978-0-349-11790-4 , from page 121
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the events that led to the execution on www.english.cua.edu (English)
- ↑ H. Vollrath & N. Fryde (eds.): The English Kings in the Middle Ages; From William the Conqueror to Richard III . Beck, 2004, ISBN 3-406-49463-3 , from page 175 ff.