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Also Known As Walter Tyler
Died June 15, 1381
Role In Peasants’ Revolt

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Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Richard II
Richard II
king of England
Henry IV
Henry IV
king of England
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Henry Percy, 1st earl of Northumberland
English noble
Earl of Totnes, detail of an oil painting after a portrait, c. 1615–20; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Carew, earl of Totnes
English administrator
Robert Walker: Henry Ireton
Henry Ireton
British statesman
Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell
English politician
Ludlow; portrait by an unknown artist
Edmund Ludlow
English soldier and politician
Lambert Simnel
English pretender
Jack Cade
English revolutionary
Sir Henry Percy
English rebel
George Booth, 1st Baron Delamere
English politician
Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester
English noble
James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 12th earl and 1st duke of Ormonde
Irish noble
Godard van Reede, 1st earl of Athlone
Dutch soldier
Lord Dundee, ink miniature by David Paton; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st viscount of Dundee
Scottish soldier
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]