Gilbert de Gaunt

Family: French-aligned · Role: earl of Lincoln · First appears: King John 31

Life events

• c. 1216 · Louis VIII created Gilbert de Gaunt Earl of Lincoln and appointed him to campaign there.(King John 31 · 📍 London)
  • With: Louis VIII
  • “he returned to London, and shortlie therevpon created Gilbert de Gaunt earle of Lincolne, appointing him to go thither with all conuenient spéed”
• c. 1216 · Gilbert de Gaunt and the besiegers fled when King John approached Lincolne.(King John 32 · 📍 Lincolne)
  • With: King John
  • “But those that had besieged it, as Gilbert de Gaunt, and others, hearing that king John was comming towards them, durst not abide him, but fled, and so escaped.”

King John 31

• sworn: Louis VIII “Now when Lewes had thus finished his enterprises in those parts, he returned to London, and shortlie therevpon created Gilbert de Gaunt earle of Lincolne, appointing him to go thither with all conuenient spéed”
• allies with Robert de Ropeley “This Gilbert de Gaunt then, togither with Robert de Ropeley, comming into that countrie, tooke the citie of Lincolne, and brought all the countrie vnder subiection”

King John 32

• enemies with King John “But those that had besieged it, as Gilbert de Gaunt, and others, hearing that king John was comming towards them, durst not abide him, but fled, and so escaped.”

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