Jenico Dartois

Also known as: Ienico Dartois · Family: Richard II's party · Role: Gascon retainer · First appears: Richard II 76

Life events

c. 1399 · Henry IV imprisoned Jenico Dartois for retaining Richard II’s badge, then pardoned him.(Richard II 76 · 📍 Chester)
- With: Henry IV
- “by reason whereof, when the duke of Hereford vnderstood it, he caused him to be committed to prison within the castell of Chester. This man was the last (as saieth mine author) which ware that deuise, and shewed well thereby his constant hart toward his maister, for the which it was thought he should haue lost his life, but yet he was pardoned, and at length reconciled to the dukes fauour, after he was king.”

enemies with Henry IV “by reason whereof, when the duke of Hereford vnderstood it, he caused him to be committed to prison within the castell of Chester”
sworn: Richard II “Ienico Dartois a Gascoigne that still ware the cognisance or deuise of his maister king Richard, that is to saie, a white hart, and would not put it from him, neither for persuasions nor threats”
friends with Richard II “The king had verie few about him of his freends, except onelie the earle of Salisburie, the bishop of Carleill, the lord Stephan Scroope, sir Nicholas Ferebie, a sonne also of the countesse of Salisburie, and Ienico Dartois a Gascoigne”

allies with Carew “the baron of Carew kept the passage on the riuer of Seine, and to him was ioined that valiant esquier Ienico Dartois”

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