John Standish
Also known as: Iohn Standish · Family: England · Role: esquire · First appears: Richard II 15
Life events
- c. 1381 · William Walworth arrests Wat Tyler, and John Standish with others fatally stab him.(Richard II 15 · 📍 Smithfield)
- With: William Walworth Wat Tyler
- “The maior being a man of incomparable boldnesse, foorthwith rode to him and arrested him, in reaching him such a blow on the head, that he sore astonied him therewith: and streightwaies other that were about the king, as Iohn Standish an esquier, and diuers more of the kings seruants drew their swords, and thrust him through in diuerse parts of his bodie, so that he fell presentlie from his horsse downe to the earth, and died there in the place.”
- c. 1381 · Richard II knighted William Walworth and six others for loyal service.(Richard II 19 · 📍 London)
- With: Richard II William Walworth Nicholas Bramble John Philpot Nicholas Twiford Robert Laundre Robert Gaiton
- “made the said maior William Walworth knight, with fiue other aldermen his brethren, to wit, Nicholas Bramble, Iohn Philpot, Nicholas Twiford, Robert Laundre, and Robert Gaiton, also Iohn Standish”
Richard II 15
- sworn: Richard II “and streightwaies other that were about the king, as Iohn Standish an esquier, and diuers more of the kings seruants drew their swords, and thrust him through in diuerse parts of his bodie, so that he fell presentlie from his horsse downe to the earth, and died there in the place.”
- enemies with Wat Tyler “and streightwaies other that were about the king, as Iohn Standish an esquier, and diuers more of the kings seruants drew their swords, and thrust him through in diuerse parts of his bodie, so that he fell presentlie from his horsse downe to the earth, and died there in the place.”
Richard II 19
- sworn: Richard II “also Iohn Standish, that (as ye haue heard) holpe to slaie Wat Tiler”
- enemies with Wat Tyler “also Iohn Standish, that (as ye haue heard) holpe to slaie Wat Tiler”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.