For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground

And tell sad stories of the death of kings:              

How some have been depos’d, some slain in war,              

Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,              

Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill’d,          

All murthered—for within the hollow crown

That rounds the mortal temples of a king              

Keeps Death his court

(William Shakespeare: Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2)

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Literatur: Nigel Saul: Richard II; Chris Given-Wilson: Henry IV (The English Monarchs Series); Helen Castor: The Eagle and the Hart - The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV; Kathryn Warner: Richard II: A True King's Fall; Chronicles of the Revolution, 1397–1400: The reign of Richard II (Manchester Medieval Sources); Jean Creton: La Prinse et Mort du Roy Richart d’Angleterre (Royal Historical Society, fifth Camden Series, 65th volume)

Historia Vitae-et-Regni Richardi ii Angliae Regnis: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_historia-vitae-et-regni-_richard-ii-king-of-eng_1729/mode/2up