Editing Richard II of England (section)

=== Death ===
Henry had agreed to let Richard live after his abdication. This changed when it was revealed that the earls of Huntingdon, Kent, and Salisbury, and Lord Despenser, and possibly also the Earl of Rutland{{Spaced ndash}}all now demoted from the ranks they had been given by Richard{{Spaced ndash}}were planning to murder the new king and restore Richard in the [[Epiphany Rising]].<ref>Saul (1997), pp.&nbsp;424–425.</ref> Although averted, the plot highlighted the danger of allowing Richard to live. He is thought to have starved to death in captivity in [[Pontefract Castle]] on or around 14 February 1400, although there is some question over the date and manner of his death.<ref name="Tuck"/> His body was taken south from Pontefract and displayed in [[old St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's Cathedral]] on 17 February before burial in [[King's Langley Priory]] on 6 March.

Rumours that Richard was still alive persisted, but never gained much credence in England;<ref>Tuck (1985), p.&nbsp;226.</ref> in Scotland, however, a man identified as Richard came into the hands of [[Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany|Regent Albany]], lodged in [[Stirling Castle]], and serving as the notional{{Spaced ndash}}and perhaps reluctant{{Spaced ndash}}figurehead of various anti-Lancastrian and [[Lollard]] intrigues in England. Henry IV's government dismissed him as an impostor, and several sources from both sides of the border suggest the man had a mental illness, one also describing him as a "beggar" by the time of his death in 1419, but he was buried as a king in [[Blackfriars, Stirling]], the local [[Dominican friary]]. Meanwhile, [[Henry V of England|Henry V]]{{Spaced ndash}}in an effort both to atone for his father's act of murder and to silence the rumours of Richard's survival{{Spaced ndash}}had decided to have the body at King's Langley reinterred in Westminster Abbey on 4 December 1413. Here Richard himself had prepared an elaborate tomb, where the remains of his wife Anne were already entombed.<ref>Saul (1997), pp.&nbsp;428–429.</ref>