Peter Bressie

Also known as: coronell Peter Bressie / monsieur de Varenne / sir Peter Bressie · Family: France · Role: captain · First appears: Henry VI 51

Life events

• 1456 · Peter Bressie entered Sandwich, plundered it, and withdrew fearing a local assembly.(Henry VI 51 · 📍 Sandwich)
  • “and there hauing by espiall perfect notice that Sandwich was neither peopled nor fortified (because that a little before, the rulers of the towne were from thense departed, for to auoid the plague, which sore there afflicted and slue the people) he entered the hauen, spoiled the towne, and after such poore stuffe as he there found rifled and taken, he fearing an assemblie of the countrie, shortlie gat him awaie.”

Henry VI 51

• allies with William Pomiers “The capteins of the one fléet was William lord Pomiers, and of the other sir Peter Bressie, a great ruler in Normandie.”

Edward IV 2

• with Margaret of Anjou (appointed him captain of Alnwick Castle) “but their coronell Peter Bressie, otherwise called monsieur de Varenne, happened vpon a fisherman, and so came to Berwike vnto queene Margaret, who made him capteine of the castell of Alnewike”

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