Raoul de Gaucourt

Also known as: Gaucourt · Family: France · Role: defender of Harfleur · First appears: Henry V 6

Life events

c. 1415 · Henry V besieged Harflue while de Touteuill and Gaucourt defended the town.(Henry V 6 · 📍 Harflue)
- With: Henry V Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence de Touteuill
- “The next daie after his landing, he marched toward the towne of Harflue, standing on the riuer of Saine betwéene two hils; he besieged it on euerie side, raising bulwarks and a bastell, in which the two earles of Kent & Huntington were placed, with Cornwall, Graie, Steward, and Porter. On that side towards the sea, the king lodged with his field, and the duke of Clarence on the further side towards Rone. There were within the towne the lords de Touteuill and Gaucourt, with diuerse other that valiantlie defended the siege”

enemies with Henry V “There were within the towne the lords de Touteuill and Gaucourt, with diuerse other that valiantlie defended the siege, dooing what damage they could to their aduersaries”

enemies with John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury “Thus when the Englishmen had seuered themselues into garrisons, the duke of Alanson, the bastard of Orleance, Ione le Pusell, the lord Gawcourt, and diuerse other capteins of the Frenchmen, came the twelfe daie of Iune, before the towne of Iargeaux”

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