John, Duke of Burgundy (Henry VI 27)
Family: France · Role: duke · First appears: Henry VI 27
Life events
- 1437 · John Talbot forced John, Duke of Burgundy, to flee and captured his newly built bastile and its garrison.(Henry VI 27 · 📍 Crotoy)
- With: John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
- “When the duke of Burgognie was informed of the approching of the lord Talbot, he with all his power (sauing foure hundred, which were left in a bastile by him there newlie builded) fled to Abuile, the bastile was soone gained by the Englishmen, and those within either slaine or taken.”
- 1438 · Louis XI and allied dukes rebelled against Charles VII, but the faction dissolved and peace was restored.(Henry VI 27 · 📍 France)
- With: Louis XI John II, Duke of Alençon Charles VII
- “In this yeare, the Dolphin of France alied with Iohn duke of Alanson and Iohn duke of Burgognie, rebelled against his father king Charles: but in the end, by wise persuasions, and wittie handling of the matter, the knot of that seditious faction was dissolued, and the king with his sonne, and the other confederates openlie and apparantlie pacified.”
Henry VI 27
- allies with Louis XI “the Dolphin of France alied with Iohn duke of Alanson and Iohn duke of Burgognie, rebelled against his father king Charles”
- allies with John II, Duke of Alençon “the Dolphin of France alied with Iohn duke of Alanson and Iohn duke of Burgognie, rebelled against his father king Charles”
- enemies with Charles VII “the Dolphin of France alied with Iohn duke of Alanson and Iohn duke of Burgognie, rebelled against his father king Charles”
- enemies with Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick “Betwéene the change of these two capteins, the duke of Burgognie (which sore enuied the glorie of the Englishmen) besieged the towne of Crotoy, with ten thousand men and more”
- enemies with John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury “When the duke of Burgognie was informed of the approching of the lord Talbot, he with all his power (sauing foure hundred, which were left in a bastile by him there newlie builded) fled to Abuile”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.