Holinshed's Chronicles

John St John

Also known as: sir Iohn S. Iohn · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Richard II 46

Life events

  • 1390 · John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, was accidentally killed during a jousting practice.(Richard II 46)
    • With: John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke
    • “At the same time the lord Iohn de Hastings earle of Penbroke, as he was practising to learne to iust, through mishap was striken about the priuie parts, by a knight called sir Iohn S. Iohn, that ran against him, so as his inner parts being perished, death presentlie followed.”

Richard II 46

  • with John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke (John St John accidentally struck John Hastings during a joust, causing his death.) “At the same time the lord Iohn de Hastings earle of Penbroke, as he was practising to learne to iust, through mishap was striken about the priuie parts, by a knight called sir Iohn S. Iohn, that ran against him, so as his inner parts being perished, death presentlie followed.”

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