Holinshed's Chronicles

John Boring

Also known as: sir Iohn Boring · Family: England · Role: priest and military leader · First appears: Richard II 25

Life events

  • 1383 · John Boring's archers enabled Arnold Hans to defeat enemies at a castle near Allost.(Richard II 25 · 📍 Allost)
    • With: Arnold Hans
    • “Also there was an English préest, one sir Iohn Boring that went to Gaunt with fiue hundred English archers, by whose aid Arnold Hans one of the capteins of Gaunt ouercame his enimies in battell, which were laid in a castell neere to the hauen of Allost”

Richard II 25

  • allies with Arnold Hans (Boring's English archers aided Arnold Hans in battle.) “Also there was an English préest, one sir Iohn Boring that went to Gaunt with fiue hundred English archers, by whose aid Arnold Hans one of the capteins of Gaunt ouercame his enimies in battell”

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