Nicholas (cardinal of the holie crosse)

Also known as: Nicholas the cardinall of the holie crosse · Family: Church · Role: cardinal and legate · First appears: Henry VI 19

Life events

• c. 1431 · Nicholas secured a six-year truce, but French forces soon broke it by seizing Chartres.(Henry VI 19 · 📍 Chartres)
  • With: Pope Eugene IV
  • “he wan so much at their hands by earnest sute, that a truce was granted to indure for six yeares to come: but as the same was hardlie granted, so was it of the Frenchmen soone and lightlie broken. For the bastard of Orleance newlie made earle of Dunois, tooke by treson the towne of Chartres from the Englishmen”

Henry VI 19

• sworn: Pope Eugene IV “Nicholas the cardinall of the holie crosse was sent into France, as a legat from Eugenie the fourth as then bishop of Rome, to treat a peace betwéene the Englishmen and Frenchmen.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.