Holinshed's Chronicles

Spising

Family: House of Lancaster · Role: rebel captain · First appears: Edward IV 26

Life events

  • c. 1471 · Spising and Quintine were executed, and their heads displayed at city gates.(Edward IV 26)
    • With: Quintine
    • “as Spising one of the capteins that assaulted Algate, whose head was set vp ouer the same gate: and so likewise was the head of one Quintine, a butcher, that was an other capteine amongest them, and chiefe of those that assaulted Bishops gate, as some write.”

Edward IV 26

  • enemies with Edward IV “King Edward visiting diuerse places in Kent, sate in iudgement on such as had aided the bastard in the last commotion, of whome diuerse were condemned and executed, as Spising one of the capteins that assaulted Algate”

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