#thomas arundel

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Gentle Master Arundel

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Josephine Tey would probably say you can tell Thomas Arundel was a right bastard because LOOK AT HIS PICTURE.

It's not contemporary at all -- the caption says "15th-century" and I would have guessed 16th -- the only contemporary image of him that I know of is the one from Creton's Metrical History:

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hilarious wikipedia sentences of our time

However, shortly afterwards, he joined up with his fellow-exile Henry Bolingbroke. Although not soul-mates, they invaded England together and forced Richard to yield the crown to Bolingbroke as Henry IV. Arundel played a hugely prominent part in the usurpation and may have been the most hawkishly determined of all that the king should be removed entirely: whether he actually lied on oath to Richard II to lure him out of Conwy Castle remains altogether open to debate.

IN CASE YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT SHIPPING IT.

(I have decided he's oddly sympathetic toward Aumerle in his cameo in this fic because, after all, it's RSC-verse and he did get Richard out of the way permanently...)