Friar Randoll

Also known as: frier Randoll · Family: England · Role: Franciscan friar and confessor · First appears: Henry V 23

Life events

c. 1419 · Friar Randoll was accidentally killed within the Tower.(Henry V 23 · 📍 Tower)
- “where he remained till the parson of the Tower quarelling with him, by chance slue him there within the Tower ward.”

sworn: Henry V (The king commanded Randoll's transfer and imprisonment.) “being first brought ouer into Normandie, was by the kings commandement sent hither into England, and committed to the Tower”
enemies with Joan of Navarre (The reported conspiracy links Randoll and Joan against Henry V.) “It was reported that he had conspired with the quéene by sorcerie and necromancie to destroie the king.”
with Joan of Navarre (Friar Randoll had been Joan of Navarre's confessor.) “that professed diuinitie, and had béene confessor to the same quéene”
enemies with Henry V “It was reported that he had conspired with the quéene by sorcerie and necromancie to destroie the king.”

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