Pontefract Castle II was captured by Henry Bolingbroke's supporters in August 1399 and initially imprisoned in the Tower of London. Sometime before Christmas that year he was moved to Pontefract Castle (via Knaresborough) where he remained under guard until his death, perhaps on 14 February 1400. William Shakespeare's play Richard III mentions this incident: Various chroniclers suggest that Richard was starved to death by his captors, and others suggest he starved himself. A contemporary French chronicler suggested that Richard II had been hacked to death, but this is, according to the ODNB, "almost certainly fictitious". In 1536, the castle's guardian, Thomas Darcy,
Królowej Jadwigi Street in Bydgoszcz () in 1920. Through history, the street bore the following names: Current street name refers to Queen Jadwiga of Poland (1373/4 - 1399), who reigned as the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland from 1384 until her death in 1399. Tenement at N°1, corner with Garbary street 1890s Eclecticism Initially at "Albertstraße 12", then "Viktoria Straße 8", the tenement had been owned since 1878 by Gustav Modrakowski, a butcher, living at "Feldstraße 7" (today's Jackowskiego street). The corner building displays eclectic features on both facades. On the ground floor, bossage and round top windows topped by young female