The Burning of the Savoy Palace: The Rebels’ Fury Against John of Gaunt
On 13 June 1381 the rebels of Kent and Essex reached the Strand and set fire to the Savoy, the grandest private house in England and the home of the most hated man in the realm — John of Gaunt. What they did there, and how carefully they refused to steal a single thing, tells you everything about what the Peasants’ Revolt really was.