John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope

Also known as: Fanhope / John Cornwall / sir Iohn Cornewall / sir Iohn Cornwall lord Fanhope / sir Iohn Gréene Cornewall · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Henry IV 9

Life events

• c. 1400 · John Cornwall gained Henry IV's favor after defeating two challengers.(Henry IV 9 · 📍 Yorke)
  • With: Henry IV
  • “the strangers were put to the worst, whereby sir Iohn Cornewall obteined the kings fauour”
• 1415 · Henry organized the English army, appointing Edward to command the vanguard and placing Gloucester in the middle ward.(Henry V 9)
  • With: Henry V Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York Beaumont Willoughbie Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
  • “First he sent priuilie two hundred archers into a lowe medow, which was néere to the vauntgard of his enimies; but separated with a great ditch, commanding them there to kéepe themselues close till they had a token to them giuen, to let driue at their aduersaries: beside this, he appointed a vaward, of the which he made capteine Edward duke of Yorke, who of an haultie courage had desired that office, and with him were the lords Beaumont, Willoughbie, and Fanhope, and this battell was all of archers. The middle ward was gouerned by the king himselfe, with his brother the duke of Glocester”
• 1420 · English forces defeated the French, killing many and capturing Marshall de Rous.(Henry V 26 · 📍 countrie of Maine)
  • With: Philip Leech Marshall de Rous
  • “There was at the first a sharpe bickering betwixt them, but in the end the victorie remained with the Englishmen; so that manie of the Frenchmen were slaine, and taken, and the residue chased out of the field. There were slaine (as Thomas Walsingham saith) at the point of fiue thousand, and two hundred taken prisoners, among whome was the marshall de Rous, and diuerse other of good account.”

Henry IV 9

• with Henry IV (The king granted John Cornwall his favour.) “sir Iohn Cornewall obteined the kings fauour”
• rivals with Ianico de Artois “there were two strangers, the one a Frenchman, and the other an Italian, requiring to accomplish certeine feats of armes, against sir Iohn Cornewall, and Ianico de Artois.”

Henry V 9

• allies with Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York “with him were the lords Beaumont, Willoughbie, and Fanhope, and this battell was all of archers.”

Henry V 26

• sworn: Henry V “The earles Marshall and Huntington, sir Iohn Gréene Cornewall, sir Philip Léech, and diuerse other, were sent into the countrie of Maine”
• enemies with Marshall de Rous “There was at the first a sharpe bickering betwixt them, but in the end the victorie remained with the Englishmen; so that manie of the Frenchmen were slaine, and taken, and the residue chased out of the field. There were slaine (as Thomas Walsingham saith) at the point of fiue thousand, and two hundred taken prisoners, among whome was the marshall de Rous”

Henry V 36

• with Henry V (John Cornwall was one of the mourners at Henry's funeral.) “On this same chariot gaue attendance Iames K. of Scots, the principall mourner, king Henries vncle Thomas duke of Excester, Richard earle of Warwike, the earle of March Edmund, the earle of Stafford Humfrie, the earle of Mortaigne Edmund Beaufort, the lord Fitz Hugh Henrie, the lord Hungerford Walter, sir Robert Robsert lord Bourchier, sir Iohn Cornwall lord Fanhope, and the lord Crumwell were the other mourners.”

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