Jean de Villiers, Lord of L'Isle-Adam

Family: France · Role: captain of Pontoise · First appears: Henry V 24

Life events

• 1419 · Jean de Villiers, Lord of L'Isle-Adam abandoned Pontoise after English forces captured the town.(Henry V 24 · 📍 Pontoise)
  • “Which when the lord Lisle Adam capteine of the towne perceiued, he opened the gate towards Paris, by the which he with all his retinue, and diuerse of the townesmen to the number of ten thousand in all, (as Enguerant de Monstr. recounteth) fled towards Paris”
• c. 1435 · The English captured saint Denis and demolished its walls and fortifications.(Henry VI 23 · 📍 saint Denis)
  • With: John Talbot Robert Willoughby Thomas Scales
  • “In the meane time was the towne of saint Denis rendered to the Englishmen, the which raced the walles and fortifications, sauing the walles of the abbeie, and of the tower called Venin.”

Henry V 24

• enemies with Jean de Guigny (The Orléans captains strip the forces fleeing under Lord Lisle Adam.) “Which when the lord Lisle Adam capteine of the towne perceiued, he opened the gate towards Paris, by the which he with all his retinue, and diuerse of the townesmen to the number of ten thousand in all, (as Enguerant de Monstr. recounteth) fled towards Paris, taking awaie with them their coine, iewels, and plate. Some of them fléeing towards Beauuois were met with, and stripped of that they had, by Iehan de Guigni, and Iehan de Claw, two capteins that serued the Orlientiall faction”
• enemies with Jean de Clau (The Orléans captains strip the forces fleeing under Lord Lisle Adam.) “Which when the lord Lisle Adam capteine of the towne perceiued, he opened the gate towards Paris, by the which he with all his retinue, and diuerse of the townesmen to the number of ten thousand in all, (as Enguerant de Monstr. recounteth) fled towards Paris, taking awaie with them their coine, iewels, and plate. Some of them fléeing towards Beauuois were met with, and stripped of that they had, by Iehan de Guigni, and Iehan de Claw, two capteins that serued the Orlientiall faction”

Henry VI 23

• allies with John Talbot “the lord Talbot, the lord Willoughbie, the lord Scales, with the lord Lisle Adam, and fiue thousand men of warre, besieged the towne of saint Denis with a strong band.”
• allies with Robert Willoughby “the lord Talbot, the lord Willoughbie, the lord Scales, with the lord Lisle Adam, and fiue thousand men of warre, besieged the towne of saint Denis with a strong band.”
• allies with Thomas Scales “the lord Talbot, the lord Willoughbie, the lord Scales, with the lord Lisle Adam, and fiue thousand men of warre, besieged the towne of saint Denis with a strong band.”

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