Nicholas, Abbot of Waltham

Also known as: Nicholas abbat of Waltham · Family: Church · Role: abbot and lord keeper · First appears: Richard II 34

Life events

• c. 1386 · Thirteen lords were appointed to oversee the realm's government under Richard II.(Richard II 34)
  • With: Richard II William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury Alexander Neville, Archbishop of York Edmund Langley, Duke of York Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester William of Wykeham Thomas Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel Richard Scrope John Devereux, Lord Devereux
  • “there were in this parlement thirteene lords chosen, to haue ouersight vnder the king of the whole gouernment of the realme”

Richard II 34

• sworn: Richard II “Of those thirteene there were thrée of the new officers named, as the bishop of Elie lord chancellor, the bishop of Hereford lord treasuror, and Nicholas abbat of Waltham lord keeper of the priuie seale:”

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