Holinshed's Chronicles

John V, Duke of Brittany

Family: Brittany · Role: duke · First appears: Henry IV 3

Life events

  • c. 1399 · The dispute over Richmond was referred to the parties' councils and the king's council.(Henry IV 3)
    • With: Henry IV Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland
    • “Wherevpon the commons for the more suertie of the intercourse of merchants, besought the king that the matter might be committed to the ordering of the councell of either of the parties, and of his counsell, so as an end might be had therein, which request was likewise granted.”

Henry IV 3

  • with Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland (interaction) “the duke of Britaine pretending a right thereto by an old title, had sent his letters ouer vnto the estates assembled in this parlement, offering to abide such order as the law would appoint in the like case to anie of the kings subiects.”

Also listed in Brittany — Minor Figures

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