Robert Rust
Family: England · Role: shipmaster · First appears: Richard II 7
Life events
- c. 1379 · Robert Rust drowned while attempting to rescue John Arundell from the waves.(Richard II 7)
- With: John Arundell
- “but whilest he tooke care for an other mans safetie, and neglected his owne, he lost his life, and so they both perished togither; for through a mightie billow of the raging seas, they were both ouerthrowne, and with returning of the waues backe, drawne into the deepe, so that they could neuer recouer foot-hold againe, but were drowned.”
Richard II 7
- with John Arundell (Rust, the shipmaster, attempted to rescue his chief captain Arundell.) “But when he saw his cheefe capteine, the said sir Iohn Arundell got foorth to the sands, and as one thinking himselfe past all danger, to shake his wet garments about him; the said Rust waieng the dangerous state wherein the said sir Iohn Arundell yet stood, came downe, and raught to him his hand, inforsing himselfe to plucke him to the shore”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.