Philip Leech

Also known as: sir Philip Léech · Family: England · Role: captain of Newcastle · First appears: Henry V 23

Life events

• 1420 · English forces defeated the French, killing many and capturing Marshall de Rous.(Henry V 26 · 📍 countrie of Maine)
  • With: John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope Marshall de Rous
  • “There was at the first a sharpe bickering betwixt them, but in the end the victorie remained with the Englishmen; so that manie of the Frenchmen were slaine, and taken, and the residue chased out of the field. There were slaine (as Thomas Walsingham saith) at the point of fiue thousand, and two hundred taken prisoners, among whome was the marshall de Rous, and diuerse other of good account.”

Henry V 23

• sworn: Henry V “At Newcastell sir Philip Léech was made capteine.”

Henry V 25

• sworn: Henry V “At Monceaux, sir Philip Léech;”

Henry V 26

• sworn: Henry V “The earles Marshall and Huntington, sir Iohn Gréene Cornewall, sir Philip Léech, and diuerse other, were sent into the countrie of Maine”
• enemies with Marshall de Rous “There was at the first a sharpe bickering betwixt them, but in the end the victorie remained with the Englishmen; so that manie of the Frenchmen were slaine, and taken, and the residue chased out of the field. There were slaine (as Thomas Walsingham saith) at the point of fiue thousand, and two hundred taken prisoners, among whome was the marshall de Rous”

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