Jean de Barbazan

Also known as: lord Barbason / monsieur de Barbason · Family: France · Role: captain of Melun · First appears: Henry V 30

Life events

c. 1420 · Henry V and Jean de Barbazan revealed their identities after fighting in the mine.(Henry V 30)
- With: Henry V
- “After they had fought a good season togither, at length they agréed to discouer either to other their names; so as the lord Barbason, first declaring what he was; the king likewise told him, that he was the king of England.”
c. 1420 · Melun surrendered to Henry V after starvation and pestilence weakened its defenders.(Henry V 30 · 📍 Melun)
- With: Henry V
- “At length, vittels within the towne began to faile, and the pestilence began to wax hot, so that the lord Barbason began to treat; and in conclusion, about the middest of Nouember (as Fabian saith) the towne was yéelded vpon certeine conditions”
c. 1420 · Jean de Barbazan escaped imprisonment when castell Galliard was captured by the Dauphin's supporters.(Henry V 30 · 📍 castell Galliard)
- “till at length, being brought vnto castell Galliard, it chanced that the same castell was woone by those of the Dolphins part, and he being as then prisoner there, escaped out of danger, and so by that means was set at libertie”

enemies with Henry V “the king (to auoid the strife) entered the mine himselfe first of all other, and by chance came to fight hand to hand with the lord Barbason”
enemies with Charles VI “warned them all on paine of death, that none of them should be so hardie, as to treat, or once to motion anie word of surrendring the towne, or of comming to anie composition or agréement with the two kings”

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