William Haukesford

Also known as: sir William Haukesford · Role: knight and justice · First appears: Edward IV 12

Life events

• c. 1470 · William Haukesford was accidentally killed by his own park keeper and thereby ended his life.(Edward IV 12)
  • “Then the keeper willed him to stand, which when he would not doo, the kéeper nocked his arrow and shot vnto him, and killed him; who when he perceiued that it was his maister, then he called to remembrance his maisters former commandement. And so this knight, otherwise learned and wise, being affraid to displease man, did displease God, and verie disorderlie ended his life.”

Edward IV 12

• with John Sentleger (John Sentleger was named as one of William Haukesford's heirs.) “hauing neuer a sonne, the lord Fitz Warren, sir Iohn Sentleger, & sir William Bulleine, who maried his daughters, were his heires”
• with William Bulleine (William Bulleine was named as one of William Haukesford's heirs.) “hauing neuer a sonne, the lord Fitz Warren, sir Iohn Sentleger, & sir William Bulleine, who maried his daughters, were his heires”

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