Gerard de Sotigam

Family: England · Role: soldier · First appears: King John 28

Life events

• c. 1216 · Hubert de Burgh and Gerard de Sotigam successfully resisted Louis VIII's assault on Dover Castle.(King John 31 · 📍 Douer castell)
  • With: Louis VIII Hubert de Burgh
  • “For the said Hubert de Burgh, and Gerard de Sotigam, who were chéefe capteins within, did their best to defend it against him and all his power, so that despairing to win it by force, he assaied to obteine his purpose”

King John 28

• sworn: King John “Also of strangers, Gerard de Sotigam, and Godstall, with the Flemings, the crossebowes, and others.”

King John 31

• enemies with Louis VIII “But though Lewes inforced his whole endeuour to win that castell, yet all his trauell was in vaine. For the said Hubert de Burgh, and Gerard de Sotigam, who were chéefe capteins within, did their best to defend it against him and all his power”
• allies with Hubert de Burgh “For the said Hubert de Burgh, and Gerard de Sotigam, who were chéefe capteins within, did their best to defend it against him and all his power”

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