John Popham

Also known as: sir Iohn Popham · Family: England · Role: bailiff · First appears: Henry V 16

Life events

c. 1417 · Henry V appointed Gilbert Umphraville, Gilbert Talbot, and John Popham to offices at Caen.(Henry V 16 · 📍 Caen)
- With: Henry V Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus Gilbert Talbot
- “When the king had set Caen in good order, he left there for capteins, the one of the towne, the other of the castell, sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus, & sir Gilbert Talbot, and made bailiffe there sir Iohn Popham, and so departed from Caen the first of October”

sworn: Henry V “When the king had set Caen in good order, he left there for capteins, the one of the towne, the other of the castell, sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus, & sir Gilbert Talbot, and made bailiffe there sir Iohn Popham, and so departed from Caen the first of October,”

sworn: Henry V “To satisfie those that be desirous to know what capteins were appointed by the king in diuerse townes that were yéelded to him (of which we haue made no mention heretofore but in generall) here their names doo follow, and of the townes, as we find them in the chronicles of maister Hall. At Crewleie sir Henrie Tanclux an Almaine; at Torignie, sir Iohn Popham, to whome it was giuen;”

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