John Talbot, Lord Lisle

Also known as: sir Iohn Talbot, lord Lisle · Family: England · Role: lord and military leader · First appears: Henry VI 47

Life events

c. 1453 · John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Lord Lisle, and Henry Talbot died in the battle of Chatillon.(Henry VI 47 · 📍 Chatillon)
- With: John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury Henry Talbot
- “There died also the earles bastard sonne Henrie Talbot, and sir Edward Hull elect to the order of the garter, and thirtie other men of name and right valiant personages of the English nation.”

parent: John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury “sir Iohn Talbot, lord Lisle by his wife, sonne to the said erle of Shrewesburie”
siblings with Henry Talbot (Both are identified as sons of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury; Henry Talbot is explicitly described as his bastard son.) “It was said, that after he perceiued there was no remedie, but present losse of the battell, he counselled his sonne the lord Lisle, to saue himselfe by flight, sith the same could not redound to anie great reproch in him, this being the first iournie in which he had béene present. Manie words he vsed to persuade him to haue saued his life: but nature so wrought in the son, that neither desire of life, nor feare of death, could either cause him to shrinke, or conueie himselfe out of the danger, and so there manfullie ended his life with his said father. There died also the earles bastard sonne Henrie Talbot”

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