History GCSE
Deposition
What Deposition means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Deposition
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Reference: OCR
The removal of a king, shown when Richard II was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke in 1399, showing that Parliament and nobles could remove a king.
Topics that use Deposition
Related terms
- Basis of kingship
- Claims to the throne in 1066
- King–thegn relations
- Magna Carta
- Parliament
- Power of monarch and barons by 1087
- Powers of the king
- Transfer of power from Saxons to Normans
Using Deposition in the exam
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