Qualla: Savoy Palace https://qualla.com/savoy-palace en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/savoy-palace-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Savoy Palace https://qualla.com/savoy-palace Savoy Palace: Introduction https://qualla.com/savoy-palace/ Photo credit Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. When the rebels reached the Savoy Palace in June 1381, they did not simply burn it. They demolished it. What could not be smashed was thrown into the Thames. Jewellery was pulverised with hammers. One rioter who tried to keep a silver goblet for himself was killed by his fellows for theft, because this was not a robbery. The Peasants' Revolt under Wat Tyler had come to destroy John of Gaunt, the richest man in England after the king, whose hated poll tax had set the country alight. Gaunt was not at home. The palace was. It was the grandest nobleman's townhouse in medieval London, famous for its tapestries, its jewels, its tableware, and the prisoner-king John II of France who had died here. By the end of the day on which the rebels arrived, it was rubble. The name Savoy stayed.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/savoy-palace-wp/gcpv-savoy-palace-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Savoy Palace: Land Between the Strand and the River https://qualla.com/savoy-palace/ Photo credit Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. In medieval London, the most desirable address for a noble was not within the city walls but along the Strand, the great ceremonial road between the City and Westminster. A house on the Strand could have a Thames water frontage, the highway of choice for travel and trade, and it ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/savoy-palace-wp/gcpv-savoy-palace-land-between-the-strand-and-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Savoy Palace: Chaucer Begins to Write https://qualla.com/savoy-palace/ Photo credit Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. In 1285, Eleanor passed the Savoy to her second son, Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. His descendants, the Dukes of Lancaster, lived there throughout the next century. By the fourteenth century, when the Strand had been paved as far as the Savoy itself, the palace belonged to John of G...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/savoy-palace-wp/gcpv-savoy-palace-chaucer-begins-to-write.mp3 0:06 3 full Savoy Palace: An Honourable Captivity https://qualla.com/savoy-palace/ Photo credit Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. King John II of France had been captured at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and held in England as a hostage for ransom. His captivity was described as honourable, which meant comfortable. He kept his court, his servants, his finances, and his dignity. He was treated as a king, no...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/savoy-palace-wp/gcpv-savoy-palace-an-honourable-captivity.mp3 0:06 4 full Savoy Palace: The Peasants' Revolt https://qualla.com/savoy-palace/ Photo credit Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. John of Gaunt was not a popular man in London. He had supported the religious reformer John Wycliffe at a time when reformers were heretics. He had tried to replace the elected Lord Mayor with a royally appointed captain. London rioters attacked his palace once already, in 1377, ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/savoy-palace-wp/gcpv-savoy-palace-the-peasants-revolt.mp3 0:06 5 full Savoy Palace: Hospital, Barracks, Bridge Approach https://qualla.com/savoy-palace/ Photo credit Neddyseagoon at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. Henry VII founded the Savoy Hospital here for the poor and needy, endowed in his will. His son Henry VIII formally established it as a body corporate in 1512. The hospital ran fitfully for two centuries, suppressed by Edward VI in 1553 and refounded by Mary three years later. By ...

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