Peter (the hermit)

Family: House of York · Role: hermit and prophet · First appears: King John 20

Life events

1213 · Peter foretold that King John would be expelled from his kingdom at Ascension.(King John 20)
- With: King John
- “This Peter about the first of Januarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his kingdome”
1213 · Peter was hanged by King John's command after his prophecy failed.(King John 20 · 📍 Warham)
- “he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell, vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne”

with King John (Peter foretold that King John would be cast out of his kingdom.) “This Peter about the first of Januarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his kingdome.”
enemies with King John “This Peter about the first of Januarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his kingdome. And (whether, to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued, or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning) he offered himselfe to suffer death for it, if his prophesie prooued not true. Herevpon being committed to prison within the castell of Corf, when the day by him prefixed came, without any other notable damage vnto king John, he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell, vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne.”

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