Parliament of Bats

1426 parliament of England

The Great Hall of Leicester Castle (now with an early modern facade), location of the parliament Parliaments of England

Predecessors

|  Witenagemot|  7th – 11th centuries

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Curia regis|  1066 – c. 1215

Henry III

|  1st|  1237

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2nd|  1242
3rd|  1244
4th|  1246
3rd|  1247
4th|  1248
Unnumbered|  1251
5th|  1252
6th|  1253
7th|  1254
8th|  1255
9th|  1255
10th|  1258
11th|  1258
12th|  1258
13th "Oxford/Mad"|  1258
14th|  1259
15th|  1259
16th|  1259
17th|  1260
18th|  1260
19th|  1260
20th|  1261
21st|  1262
22nd|  1262
23rd|  1263
24th|  1263
25th|  1264
26th "Simon de Montfort"|  1265
27th|  1265
28th|  1265
29th|  1266
30th|  1267
31st|  1267
32nd|  1268
33rd|  1268
34th|  1268
35th|  1269
36th|  1269
37th|  1270
38th|  1272

Edward I

|  "Model"|  1295

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Edward II

|  "Westminster"|  1327

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Edward III

|  "Good"|  1376

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"Bad"|  1377

Richard II

|  "Wonderful"|  1386

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"Merciless"|  1388

Henry IV

|  "Convention"|  1399

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"Unlearned"|  1404

Henry V

|  "Fire and Faggot"|  1414

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Henry VI

|  "Bats"|  1426

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"Devils"|  1459

Edward IV

Richard III

Henry VII

Henry VIII

|  "Reformation"|  1529–1536

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Edward VI

Mary I

|  1st|  1553

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2nd|  1554
3rd|  1554–1555
4th|  1555
5th|  1558

Elizabeth I

|  1st|  1559

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2nd|  1563–1567
3rd|  1571
4th|  1572–1583
5th|  1584–1585
6th|  1586–1587
7th|  1589
8th|  1593
9th|  1597–1598
10th|  1601

James I

|  1st "Blessed"|  1604

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2nd "Addled"|  1614
3rd|  1621
4th|  1624

Charles I

|  1st "Useless"|  1625

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2nd|  1626
3rd|  1628
4th "Short"|  Apr 1640
5th "Long" (1)|  Nov 1640
Oxford/Mongrel|  1644

Revolution and Commonwealth

|  1st "Long" (2)|  1645

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2nd "Rump" (1)|  1648
3rd "Barebone's/Little/Nominated Assembly/Saints"|  1653

Protectorate

|  1st|  1654

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2nd|  1656
3rd|  1659
4th "Rump" (2)|  1659

Commonwealth

|  1st "Rump" (3)|  1659

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2nd "Long" (3)|  1660

Charles II

|  1st "Convention"|  1660

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2nd "Cavalier"|  1661
3rd "Habeas Corpus/First Exclusion"|  1679
4th "Exclusion Bill/Second Exclusion"|  1680
5th "Oxford/Third Exclusion"|  1681

James II

|  "Loyal"|  1685

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William III and Mary II

|  1st "Convention"|  1689

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2nd|  1690
3rd|  1695
4th|  1698
5th|  Feb 1701
6th|  Dec 1701

Anne

|  1st|  1702

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2nd|  1705

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The Parliament of Bats was a Parliament of England that was held in 1426 in Leicester. Meetings took place in the great hall of Leicester Castle. The king at the time, Henry VI, was an infant, and the session saw him knighted in St Mary de Castro Church across the road from the Castle Great Hall.[1]

Tensions were high because of the ongoing dispute between Cardinal Beaufort, the Bishop of Winchester and off-and-on Lord Chancellor, and the Duke of Gloucester, the King's uncle and regent. Members and their attendants were therefore not allowed by the Duke of Gloucester to carry swords, and so armed themselves with bats, giving rise to the name "Parliament of Bats". This abuse of the rules led to bats also being prohibited at later parliaments.[2] The parliament saw Beaufort removed permanently as Lord Chancellor and replaced with John Kemp.

## See also

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* Regency government, 1422–1437

## References

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1. ^ "The Parliament of Bats – 1426". Semper-eadem.tripod.com. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
2. ^ Wolfe, Eugene (2019). Dangerous Seats: Parliamentary Violence in the United Kingdom. Amberley Publishing. p. 26\. ISBN 9781445689821.

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