Roger Bolingbroke

Also known as: Roger Bolingbrooke · Role: necromancer · First appears: Henry VI 32

Life events

c. 1441 · Thomas Southwell, John Hun, Roger Bolingbrooke, and Margery Jourdaine were arrested and convicted as Eleanor’s accomplices.(Henry VI 32)
- With: Thomas Southwell John Hun Margery Jourdaine
- “At the same season were arrested, arreigned, and adiudged giltie, as aiders to the duchesse, Thomas Southwell priest, and canon of S. Stephans at Westminster, Iohn Hun priest, Roger Bolingbrooke a cunning necromancer (as it was said) and Margerie Iordeine, surnamed the witch of Eie.”
c. 1441 · Roger Bolingbrooke was hanged and quartered after being convicted as an accomplice.(Henry VI 32 · 📍 Tiborne)
- “Roger Bolingbrooke was drawne to Tiborne, and hanged and quartered”

allies with Eleanor Cobham “At the same season were arrested, arreigned, and adiudged giltie, as aiders to the duchesse, Thomas Southwell priest, and canon of S. Stephans at Westminster, Iohn Hun priest, Roger Bolingbrooke a cunning necromancer (as it was said) and Margerie Iordeine, surnamed the witch of Eie.”
enemies with Henry VI “The matter laid against them, was, for that they (at the request of the said duchesse) had deuised an image of wax representing the king, which by their sorcerie by little and little consumed, intending thereby in conclusion to waste and destroie the kings person.”

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