This is something I've been wondering about for a good while know. What if Richard II had managed to defeat Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV? Richard had a not insignificant army with him in Ireland, so lets say he waited and crossed with the whole army, rather then dividing it up, meets Henry in the field and defeats him, with the would-be King either dying in battle or being captured and executed. Now what happens? With the greatest threat to his reign removed, does Richard moderate his so called tyranny or go farther? Will he keep the Lancaster estates for himself or return them to Henry of Monmouth, the rightful heir? And speaking of heirs, would we see a child born to Richard and Isabella de Valois eventually or would the throne pass to a cousin? Finally, what about France? Richard had followed a peace policy but at the time of his deposition the French court had fallen under the power of the Duc d'Orleans, who was much more warlike. So would we see a continuance of the Hundred Years' war under Richard II or at the very least an English intervention in the inevitable French civil war?