Philip de Hulcotes

Family: England · Role: castle keeper · First appears: King John 28

Life events

c. 1215 · King John assigned northern territory and Yorkshire castles to appointed custodians.(King John 28)
- With: King John Hugh de Baliol Robert de Vieuxpont Brian de Lisle Geoffrey de Lucy
- “This being doone, he committed the countrie which lieth betwixt the riuer of These, and the confines of Scotland, to the kéeping of Hugh de Balioll & Philip de Hulcotes, assigning to them such conuenient number of men of warre as was thought expedient, and the custodie of the castels in Yorkeshire he deliuered to Robert de Vepount, to Brian de Lisle, and to Geffrey de Lucie.”

sworn: King John (The king entrusted Philip with custody of the region.) “he committed the countrie which lieth betwixt the riuer of These, and the confines of Scotland, to the kéeping of Hugh de Balioll & Philip de Hulcotes”

allies with Hugh de Baliol “except the castels which Hugh de Balioll, and Philip de Hulcotes valiantlie defended against all the force of the enimie.”

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