Alexander Poole

Also known as: sir Alexander Poole · Family: England · Role: captain · First appears: Henry VI 14

Life events

c. 1429 · French forces captured Iargeaux and killed Alexander Poole.(Henry VI 14 · 📍 Iargeaux)
- With: Jean Poton de Xaintrailles William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk
- “the duke of Alanson, the bastard of Orleance, Ione le Pusell, the lord Gawcourt, and diuerse other capteins of the Frenchmen, came the twelfe daie of Iune, before the towne of Iargeaux, where the earle of Suffolke and his two brethren soiourned, & gaue to the towne so fierce an assault on thrée parts, that Poiton de Sentrailes, perceiuing an other part void of defendants, scaled the wals on that side, and without difficultie tooke the towne, and slue sir Alexander Poole, brother to the erle, and manie other, to the number of two hundred.”

siblings with William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk “slue sir Alexander Poole, brother to the erle”
siblings with John de la Pole “with the earle and his other brother named Iohn.”
enemies with Jean Poton de Xaintrailles “Poiton de Sentrailes, perceiuing an other part void of defendants, scaled the wals on that side, and without difficultie tooke the towne, and slue sir Alexander Poole”

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