Simon
Role: Archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor of England · First appears: Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2
Simon was Archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor of England, and had just celebrated mass before the king when Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball and their followers entered by force. They seized and beheaded him at the Tower. His head was displayed on London Bridge with those of Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, John Ball, and John Laige, “as if they had been traitors to their king and country.”
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Life events
- Simon was beheaded.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2 · 📍 Tower)
- “he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded.”
- The four victims’ heads were displayed on London Bridge as if they were traitors.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2 · 📍 London Bridge)
- With: Wat Tyler Jack Straw John Ball John Laige
- “They fixed these four heads on long pikes, and had them carried before them through the streets of London: when they had sufficiently played with them, they placed them on London Bridge, as if they had been traitors to their king and country.”
Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2
- with Wat Tyler (Wat Tyler was among the rebels who seized and beheaded Simon.) “Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, with upward of four hundred, rushed in by force, and, running from chamber to chamber, found the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose name was Simon, a valiant and wise man, and chancellor of England, who had but just celebrated mass before the king: he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded.”
- with Jack Straw (Jack Straw was among the rebels who seized and beheaded Simon.) “Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, with upward of four hundred, rushed in by force, and, running from chamber to chamber, found the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose name was Simon, a valiant and wise man, and chancellor of England, who had but just celebrated mass before the king: he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded.”
- with John Ball (John Ball was among the rebels who seized and beheaded Simon.) “Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, with upward of four hundred, rushed in by force, and, running from chamber to chamber, found the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose name was Simon, a valiant and wise man, and chancellor of England, who had but just celebrated mass before the king: he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded.”
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