John Dinham

Also known as: Iohn Dinham / sir Iohn Dinham · Family: House of York · Role: esquire · First appears: Henry VI 56

Life events

• c. 1459 · John Dinham captured Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers and Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales at Sandwich.(Henry VI 56 · 📍 Sandwich)
  • With: Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers
  • “which suddenlie entered the same, and tooke the lord Riuers and his sonne also in their beds, robbing houses, and spoiling ships.”
• c. 1459 · John Dinham seized the principal royal ships and carried them to Calais for Edward Plantagenet, Earl of March.(Henry VI 56 · 📍 Sandwich)
  • With: Edward IV Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
  • “And beside this, they tooke the principall ships of the kings nauie, and had them awaie with them to Calis”

Henry VI 56

• allies with Edward IV “the earles of March and Warwike had knowledge thereof, and sent Iohn Dinham with a small number of men”
• allies with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “the earles of March and Warwike had knowledge thereof, and sent Iohn Dinham with a small number of men”
• enemies with Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers “sent Iohn Dinham with a small number of men ... suddenlie entered the same, and tooke the lord Riuers and his sonne also in their beds”
• enemies with Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers “sent Iohn Dinham with a small number of men ... suddenlie entered the same, and tooke the lord Riuers and his sonne also in their beds”

Edward IV 1

• sworn: Edward IV “leauing the rere-ward vnder the gouernance of sir Iohn Wenlocke, sir Iohn Dinham, and other.”

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