Alexander Eden

Family: Kentish · Role: gentleman · First appears: Henry VI 43

Life events

• c. 1450 · Alexander Eden captured Jack Cade, who was slain, quartered, and publicly displayed.(Henry VI 43 · 📍 Hothfield)
  • With: Jack Cade
  • “After which proclamation thus published, a gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awaited so his time, that he tooke the said Cade in a garden in Sussex: so that there he was slaine at Hothfield, and brought to London in a cart, where he was quartered; his head set on London bridge, and his quarters sent to diuerse places to be set vp in the shire of Kent.”

Henry VI 43

• enemies with Jack Cade “After which proclamation thus published, a gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awaited so his time, that he tooke the said Cade in a garden in Sussex: so that there he was slaine at Hothfield, and brought to London in a cart, where he was quartered;”

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