York — Minor Figures

30 figures from Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Peter (the hermit)

hermit and prophet · first appears King John 20

• King John 20 · with King John “This Peter about the first of Januarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his kingdome.”
• King John 20 · enemies with King John “This Peter about the first of Januarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his kingdome. And (whether, to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued, or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning) he offered himselfe to suffer death for it, if his prophesie prooued not true. Herevpon being committed to prison within the castell of Corf, when the day by him prefixed came, without any other notable damage vnto king John, he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell, vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne.”

Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

duchess · first appears Edward IV 17

• Edward IV 17 · child: Edward IV “From Westminster the king returned that night vnto London againe, hauing the quéene with him, and lodged in the house of the duchesse his moother.”

George Neville, Archbishop of York

archbishop · first appears Edward IV 5

• Edward IV 5 · sworn: Edward IV “In this same yeare, king Edward, more for the loue of the marques Montacute, than for anie fauour he bare to the earle of Warwike, promoted George Neuill their brother to the archbishoprike of Yorke.”
• Edward IV 5 · siblings with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “In this same yeare, king Edward, more for the loue of the marques Montacute, than for anie fauour he bare to the earle of Warwike, promoted George Neuill their brother to the archbishoprike of Yorke.”

Hugh Courtenay

knight · first appears Edward IV 11

• Edward IV 11 · allies with Edward IV “Sir Hugh, or (as some saie) sir William Courtneie, who then fauoured the partie of king Edward the fourth, assembled a great troope and armie of all the fréends he could make”

Humphrey Bourchier

knight · first appears Edward IV 19

• Edward IV 19 · sworn: Edward IV “Vpon the kings part were slaine, the lord Crumwell, the lord Saie, the lord Montiois sonne and heire, sir Humfrie Bourchier sonne to the lord Berners”