John Russell

Also known as: Iohn Russell / sir Iohn Russell · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Richard II 51

Life events

• c. 1399 · John Russell escaped captivity temporarily by pretending to be insane.(Richard II 74 · 📍 Bristow)
  • “Sir Iohn Russell was also taken there, who feining himselfe to be out of his wits, escaped their hands for a time.”

Richard II 51

• allies with John Beaufort “Out of England there went one Iohn de Beaufort bastard son to the duke of Lancaster (as Froissard hath noted) also sir Iohn Russell, sir Iohn Butler and others.”
• allies with John Butler “Out of England there went one Iohn de Beaufort bastard son to the duke of Lancaster (as Froissard hath noted) also sir Iohn Russell, sir Iohn Butler and others.”

Richard II 74

• sworn: Richard II “and other of the kings priuie councell, as Iohn Bushie, William Bagot, Henrie Greene, and Iohn Russell knights”
• enemies with Henry IV “Sir Iohn Russell was also taken there, who feining himselfe to be out of his wits, escaped their hands for a time”

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