Andrew Trollope

Also known as: Andrew Trollop · Family: House of York · Role: captain · First appears: Henry VI 56

Life events

c. 1450 · Andrew Trollop and Thomas Cotton agreed to surrender Falais under specified conditions.(Henry VI 39 · 📍 Falais)
- With: Thomas Cotton
- “who being in despaire of all succors, agréed to deliuer it vpon two conditions.”
c. 1459 · Andrew Trollop defected to Henry VI and disclosed Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York’s attack plan.(Henry VI 56)
- With: Henry VI Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
- “Amongst other of those that came to the kings campe, Andrew Trollop was chéefe, who with the other Calisians, which had long serued the king, and liued a long time by his wages, perceiuing now that they should fight against their souereigne lord himselfe (whose true subject they estéemed before that time the earle of Warwike euer to haue béene, and in no wise his enimie) in the dead of the night before the daie of the battell secretlie departed from the dukes campe, and submitted themselues to the king, admonishing him of all things deuised against him.”

sworn: Henry VI “Andrew Trollop was chéefe, who with the other Calisians, which had long serued the king, and liued a long time by his wages, perceiuing now that they should fight against their souereigne lord himselfe ... secretlie departed from the dukes campe, and submitted themselues to the king”
enemies with Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York “secretlie departed from the dukes campe, and submitted themselues to the king, admonishing him of all things deuised against him”

enemies with Edward IV “The earle of Northumberland and Andrew Trollop, chiefe capteins of king Henries vawward, séeing their shot not to preuaile, hasted to ioine with their enimies”
allies with Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland (Lancastrian captain) “The earle of Northumberland and Andrew Trollop, chiefe capteins of king Henries vawward, séeing their shot not to preuaile, hasted to ioine with their enimies”
enemies with William Neville, Lord Fauconberg “So their shot almost spent, the lord Fauconbridge marched forward with his archers, which not onelie shot their whole sheafes, but also gathered the arrowes of their enimies, and let a great part flie against their first owners, and suffered a great sort of them to stand, which sore troubled the legs of the northerne men, when the battell ioined. The earle of Northumberland and Andrew Trollop, chiefe capteins of king Henries vawward, séeing their shot not to preuaile, hasted to ioine with their enimies”

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