John I of Portugal
Also known as: king Iohn of Portingale / king of Portingale · Family: Portuguese · Role: king · First appears: Richard II 12
Life events
- c. 1381 · English forces were sent to aid John I of Portugal against John I of Castile.(Richard II 12 · 📍 Portingale)
- With: John I of Castile William de Beauchamp Matthew Gournay
- “the earle of Cambridge, the lord William de Beauchampe, the lord Botreux, and sir Matthew Gournie, were sent into Portingale with fiue hundred armed men, and fiue hundred archers to aid the king of Portingale against the king of Castile”
- c. 1385 · John I of Portugal defeated a large Spanish and French army with English assistance.(Richard II 29 · 📍 Portingale)
- c. 1385 · John I of Portugal sent six galleys to Richard II against his adversaries.(Richard II 29)
- With: Richard II
- “The king of Portingale (after this victorie obteined against his enimies) sent six gallies vnto the king of England to aid him against his aduersaries”
- c. 1418 · John I of Portugal sent a fleet to block French vessels from aiding Rone.(Henry V 20 · 📍 the mouth of the riuer of Seine)
- With: Henry V
- “Also the kings coosine germane and alie (the king of Portingale) sent a great nauie of well appointed ships vnto the mouth of the riuer of Seine, to stop that no French vessels should enter the riuer, and passe vp the same, to the aid of them within Rone.”
Richard II 12
- enemies with John I of Castile (The two kings were at open war.) “there was variance and open war mainteined, betwixt Iohn king of Castile, and king Iohn of Portingale”
- allies with Edmund Langley, Duke of York (Cambridge was sent to aid the Portuguese king.) “the earle of Cambridge, the lord William de Beauchampe, the lord Botreux, and sir Matthew Gournie, were sent into Portingale with fiue hundred armed men, and fiue hundred archers to aid the king of Portingale against the king of Castile”
- allies with William de Beauchamp (Beauchamp was sent to aid the Portuguese king.) “the earle of Cambridge, the lord William de Beauchampe, the lord Botreux, and sir Matthew Gournie, were sent into Portingale with fiue hundred armed men, and fiue hundred archers to aid the king of Portingale against the king of Castile”
- allies with Matthew Gournay (Gournay was sent to aid the Portuguese king.) “the earle of Cambridge, the lord William de Beauchampe, the lord Botreux, and sir Matthew Gournie, were sent into Portingale with fiue hundred armed men, and fiue hundred archers to aid the king of Portingale against the king of Castile”
- allies with John of Gaunt “for the duke of Lancaster reioised greatlie, that he might haue such a fréend as the king of Portingale, to ioine with him in aid against the king of Castile”
Richard II 29
- allies with Norberie “king Iohn of Portingale discomfited a great host of Spaniards and Frenchmen by the helpe and policie of certeine Englishmen which he had there with him, vnder the leading of two esquiers Norberie and Hartell”
- allies with Hartell “king Iohn of Portingale discomfited a great host of Spaniards and Frenchmen by the helpe and policie of certeine Englishmen which he had there with him, vnder the leading of two esquiers Norberie and Hartell”
- allies with Richard II “The king of Portingale (after this victorie obteined against his enimies) sent six gallies vnto the king of England to aid him against his aduersaries”
Henry V 20
- cousins with Henry V “Also the kings coosine germane and alie (the king of Portingale) sent a great nauie of well appointed ships vnto the mouth of the riuer of Seine”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.