Nicholas Burdet

Also known as: sir Nicholas Burdet · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Henry VI 5

Life events

c. 1424 · Nicholas Burdet routed the attacking Britons, killing many and taking prisoners.(Henry VI 5 · 📍 S. Iames de Beuuron)
- “And therewith the said sir Nicholas Burdet issued foorth vpon them, and pursuing them right valiantlie, slue them downe, so that there died of them what by the sword, and what by drowning in the said poole, about seauen thousand or eight hundred, and to the number of fiftie were taken prisoners.”
1441 · Nicholas Burdet was slain among the English defenders of Ponthoise.(Henry VI 28 · 📍 Ponthoise)
- “Among other that were slaine here of the defendants, was sir Nicholas Burdet knight, chéefe butler of Normandie.”

enemies with Arthur de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond “A little before this time, sir Thomas Rampston, sir Philip Branch, sir Nicholas Burdet, and other Englishmen, to the number of fiue hundred men of warre, repared and fortified the towne of S. Iames de Beuuron, situate on the frontiers of Normandie towards Britaine, within halfe a league of the duke of Britains ground, with whome as then they had open warre; and so began to doo manie displeasures to his people. Wherevpon Arthur earle of Richmont and Yurie, brother to the said duke, and latelie before created constable of France, assembled an huge power of men”

enemies with Charles VII “When the regent and the lord Talbot were returned againe into Normandie, the French king considering how much it should redound to his dishonour to let rest the towne of Ponthoise in his enimies hands, sith he had béene at such charges and trauell about the winning thereof, he eftsoones assembled all his puissance. And returning suddenlie vnto Ponthoise, he first by assault got the church, and after the whole towne, tooke the capteine, and diuerse other Englishmen, and slue to the number of foure hundred, which sold their liues dearelie: for one French writer affirmeth, that the French king lost there thrée thousand men; and the whole garrison of the Englishmen was but onelie a thousand. Among other that were slaine here of the defendants, was sir Nicholas Burdet knight, chéefe butler of Normandie.”
sworn: Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York “After this, the duke intending once againe to offer the French king battell, left behind him at Ponthoise for capteine there, sir Geruais Clifton, sir Nicholas Burdet, Henrie Chandos, and a thousand soldiers”

child: Thomas Burdet “Thomas Burdet an esquier of Arrow in Warwikeshire, sonne to sir Nicholas Burdet”

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