Guthred Macwilliam

Family: Scottish rebels · Role: rebel captain · First appears: King John 17

Life events

• c. 1211 · King John captured and hanged Guthred Macwilliam for sedition.(King John 17 · 📍 Scotland)
  • With: King John
  • “took Guthred Macwilliam capteine of them that moued sedition, whom king John caused to be hanged on a paire of gallowes.”

King John 17

• parent: Donald “This Guthred was descended of the line of the ancient Scotish kings, and being assisted with the Irishmen and Scots that fauoured not the race of the kings that presentlie reigned, wrought them much trouble, as his father (named Donald) had doone before him”
• enemies with King John “who scowring the coasts, took Guthred Macwilliam capteine of them that moued sedition, whom king John caused to be hanged on a paire of gallowes”

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