Roger Acton

Also known as: sir Roger Acton · Family: Rebels · Role: knight · First appears: Henry V 2

Life events

1414 · Henry V suppressed an armed uprising, capturing some rebels and killing others.(Henry V 2 · 📍 Ficket field)
- With: Henry V John Browne John Beverley
- “he streight got him to his palace at Westminster, in as secret wise as he might, and there calling to him certeine bands of armed men, he repaired into saint Giles fields, néere to the said place (where he vnderstood they should fulle méet about midnight) and so handled the matter, that he tooke some, and slue some, euen as stood with his pleasure.”
1414 · Roger Acton was condemned, attainted, and executed for treason and heresy.(Henry V 2 · 📍 Guildhall of London)
- “which iudgement was executed the same moneth, on the said sir Roger Acton, and eight and twentie others.”

enemies with Henry V “sir Roger Acton knight a man of great wit and possessions, Iohn Browne esquier, Iohn Beuerlie priest, and a great number of other were assembled in armour against the king, his brethren, the clergie and realme.”
allies with John Browne “sir Roger Acton knight a man of great wit and possessions, Iohn Browne esquier, Iohn Beuerlie priest, and a great number of other were assembled in armour against the king, his brethren, the clergie and realme.”
allies with John Beverley “sir Roger Acton knight a man of great wit and possessions, Iohn Browne esquier, Iohn Beuerlie priest, and a great number of other were assembled in armour against the king, his brethren, the clergie and realme.”

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