John Froissart

Role: canon and treasurer of Chimay; author · First appears: Book 4, Chapter 7

In Book 4, Chapter 7, John Froissart says he was “in the service of Queen Philippa” and had been secretary to King Edward and Queen Philippa in his youth. When he took leave of King Richard at Windsor, Richard gave him a silver-gilt goblet filled with a hundred nobles.

Relationship record

Book 4, Chapter 7

• employer: Queen Philippa “I was in the service of Queen Philippa”
• employer: King Edward “in my youth I had been secretary to King Edward his grandfather, and the Lady Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England.”
• with King Richard (Richard welcomed and gave Froissart a gift.) “He made me good cheer, because in my youth I had been secretary to King Edward his grandfather, and the Lady Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England. When I took my leave of him at Windsor, he presented me, by one of his knights called Sir John Golofre, a silver gilt goblet, weighing full two marks, filled with a hundred nobles, which were then of service to me, and will be so as long as I live.”

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