Piers Exton

Also known as: sir Piers Exton / sir Piers of Exton · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: knight · First appears: Henry IV 7

Henry IV 7

allies with Henry IV (Piers Exton acted on Henry IV's expressed wish.) “king Henrie, sitting on a daie at his table, sore sighing, said, ‘Have I no faithfull fréend which will deliuer me of him, whose life will be my death, and whose death will be the preseruation of my life;’ This saieng was much noted of them which were present, and especiallie of one called sir Piers of Exton. This knight incontinentlie departed from the court, with eight strong persons in his companie, and came to Pomfret”
sworn: Richard II (Piers Exton had long obeyed Richard II as king.) “It is said, that sir Piers of Exton, after he had thus slaine him, wept right bitterlie, as one striken with the pricke of a giltie conscience, for murthering him, whome he had so long time obeied as king.”
enemies with Richard II (Piers Exton killed Richard II.) “And in conclusion, as king Richard trauersed his ground, from one side of the chamber to an other, & comming by the chaire, where sir Piers stood, he was felled with a stroke of a pollax which sir Piers gaue him upon the head, and therewith rid him out of life”
sworn: Henry IV “Have I no faithfull fréend which will deliuer me of him, whose life will be my death, and whose death will be the preseruation of my life; This saieng was much noted of them which were present, and especiallie of one called sir Piers of Exton. This knight incontinentlie departed from the court, with eight strong persons in his companie, and came to Pomfret”

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