biography
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| lived:
| (?–1381)
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| biography:
| English leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381). The rebels of Kent, after taking Rochester Castle, chose him as captain, and marched to Canterbury and London. At the Smithfield conference with Richard II blows were exchanged, and Tyler was wounded by the Mayor of London, William Walworth (d.1385). He was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where Walworth had him dragged out and beheaded. |
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