Jean Poton de Xaintrailles

Also known as: Poiton de Sentrailes · Family: France · Role: captain · First appears: Henry VI 14

Life events

c. 1429 · French forces captured Iargeaux and killed Alexander Poole.(Henry VI 14 · 📍 Iargeaux)
- With: Alexander Poole William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk
- “the duke of Alanson, the bastard of Orleance, Ione le Pusell, the lord Gawcourt, and diuerse other capteins of the Frenchmen, came the twelfe daie of Iune, before the towne of Iargeaux, where the earle of Suffolke and his two brethren soiourned, & gaue to the towne so fierce an assault on thrée parts, that Poiton de Sentrailes, perceiuing an other part void of defendants, scaled the wals on that side, and without difficultie tooke the towne, and slue sir Alexander Poole, brother to the erle, and manie other, to the number of two hundred.”
c. 1429 · French forces seized Mehun’s bridge tower and compelled Baugencie to surrender.(Henry VI 14 · 📍 Mehun and Baugencie)
- With: Joan of Arc
- “Shortlie after, the same French armie came to Mehun, where they tooke the tower at the bridge foot, and put therein a garrison. From thence they remooued to Baugencie, and constreined them that were within the towne to yéeld, vpon condition they might depart with bag and baggage.”

enemies with Alexander Poole “Poiton de Sentrailes, perceiuing an other part void of defendants, scaled the wals on that side, and without difficultie tooke the towne, and slue sir Alexander Poole”

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