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In 1399, King Richard II of England was effectively militarily deposed by Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV. How much of a constitutional crisis or just crisis of legitimacy resulted from this?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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