Bacon

Role: robber · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 67

Life events

Bacon took and destroyed the castle of Cobourne.(Book 1, Chapter 67 · 📍 Cobourne)
- “He set off in the night-time, with thirty companions, and took and destroyed it.”
Bacon kept possession of the castle after the Lord of Cobourne ransomed himself.(Book 1, Chapter 67 · 📍 Cobourne)
- “He kept him in prison until he ransomed himself for twenty-four thousand crowns, paid down. The robber kept possession of the castle and dependencies, which he furnished with provisions, and thence made war upon all the country round about.”
King John of France purchased Bacon’s castle, appointed him usher at arms, and honored him.(Book 1, Chapter 67)
- With: King John of France
- “The King of France, shortly afterwards, was desirous of having him near his person. He purchased the castle for twenty thousand crowns, appointed him his usher at arms, and heaped on him many other honors.”

with Lord William Douglas (No relationship between these named people is established; omit.) “But Lord William Douglas, and the Scots, who had taken refuge in the forest of Jedworth, carried on the war against the English, wherever they could meet with them.”

Extracted from the original text of The Boy's Froissart. Made with Rho MD.