John Lonstruther, Prior of St John

Also known as: Iohn Lonstrother lord prior of S. Iohn · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: prior · First appears: Edward IV 22

Life events

• 1471 · Edmund Beaufort, John Lonstruther, Thomas Tresham, and Gervais Clifton were beheaded after condemnation.(Edward IV 22 · 📍 Teukesburie)
  • With: Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (the younger) Thomas Tresham Gervais Clifton Richard III
  • “the said duke and the lord prior, with the two forenamed knights, and twelue other knights, were on a scaffold, set vp in the middle of the towne for that purpose, beheaded”

Edward IV 22

• enemies with Richard III “There were found in the abbeie and other places of the towne, Edmund duke of Summerset, Iohn Lonstrother lord prior of S. Iohn, sir Thomas Tressham, sir Gerueis Clifton, and diuerse other knights and esquiers, which were apprehended, and all of them being brought before the duke of Glocester, sitting as constable of England, and the duke of Norffolke, as marshall in the middest of the towne, they were arreigned, condemned, and iudged to die”

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