Gaunt — Minor Figures
4 figures from Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Peter Wood
leader · first appears Richard II 25
- Richard II 25 · allies with Francis Akreman “Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Winter:”
- Richard II 25 · allies with Peter Winter “Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Winter:”
Francis Akreman
leader · first appears Richard II 25
- Richard II 25 · allies with Peter Wood “Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Winter:”
- Richard II 25 · allies with Peter Winter “Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Winter:”
Peter Winter
leader · first appears Richard II 25
- Richard II 25 · allies with Francis Akreman “Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Winter:”
- Richard II 25 · allies with Peter Wood “Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Winter:”
Arnold Hans
captain · first appears Richard II 25
- Richard II 25 · allies with John Boring “Also there was an English préest, one sir Iohn Boring that went to Gaunt with fiue hundred English archers, by whose aid Arnold Hans one of the capteins of Gaunt ouercame his enimies in battell”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.