Piers Leigh

Also known as: Perkin a Lée / sir Piers a Leigh · Family: Richard II's party · Role: faithful servant · First appears: Richard II 76

Life events

• c. 1399 · Henry IV had Piers Leigh beheaded for his loyalty to Richard II.(Richard II 76 · 📍 Chester)
  • With: Henry IV
  • “one of king Richards faithfull and trustie freends, sir Piers a Leigh, commonlie called Perkin a Lée, to lose his head”

Richard II 76

• friends with Richard II “one of king Richards faithfull and trustie freends, sir Piers a Leigh, commonlie called Perkin a Lée”
• sworn: Richard II “for his stedfast faith, and assured loialtie to his louing souereigne, thus lost his life”
• enemies with Henry IV “duke Henrie staied them both, and would not suffer them to returne to the king againe, kéeping the duke of Excester still about him, and committing the duke of Surrie to prison, within the castell of Chester. The king herewith went to Beaumaris”

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