Thomas Southwell

Role: priest and canon · First appears: Henry VI 32

Life events

• c. 1441 · Thomas Southwell, John Hun, Roger Bolingbrooke, and Margery Jourdaine were arrested and convicted as Eleanor’s accomplices.(Henry VI 32)
  • With: John Hun Roger Bolingbroke Margery Jourdaine
  • “At the same season were arrested, arreigned, and adiudged giltie, as aiders to the duchesse, Thomas Southwell priest, and canon of S. Stephans at Westminster, Iohn Hun priest, Roger Bolingbrooke a cunning necromancer (as it was said) and Margerie Iordeine, surnamed the witch of Eie.”
• c. 1441 · Thomas Southwell died in the Tower the night before his scheduled execution.(Henry VI 32 · 📍 the Tower)
  • “Southwell died in the Tower the night before his execution”

Henry VI 32

• allies with Eleanor Cobham “At the same season were arrested, arreigned, and adiudged giltie, as aiders to the duchesse, Thomas Southwell priest, and canon of S. Stephans at Westminster, Iohn Hun priest, Roger Bolingbrooke a cunning necromancer (as it was said) and Margerie Iordeine, surnamed the witch of Eie.”
• enemies with Henry VI “The matter laid against them, was, for that they (at the request of the said duchesse) had deuised an image of wax representing the king, which by their sorcerie by little and little consumed, intending thereby in conclusion to waste and destroie the kings person.”

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