Gualo

Also known as: Wallo / legat Gualo · Family: Papacy · Role: cardinal · First appears: King John 26

Life events

c. 1215 · Gualo persuaded Pope Innocent III to favor King John's cause against the lords.(King John 26 · 📍 the court of Rome)
- With: Pope Innocent III King John
- “by whose chiefe trauell and means the pope was greatlie induced to fauour king Johns cause, and to iudge with him in preiudice of the lords purposes”
c. 1216 · Gualo excommunicated Louis VIII, his supporters, and Simon Langton.(King John 30 · 📍 Glocester)
- With: Louis VIII Simon Langton
- “This legat immediatlie after his comming did excommunicate Lewes by name, with all his fautors and complices, but speciallie Simon de Langton, with bell, booke, and candle, as the maner was.”
c. 1216 · Pope Honorius III confirmed Gualo as legate and ordered him to support King John against Louis VIII of France.(King John 32 · 📍 England)
- With: Pope Honorius III King John Louis VIII
- “Honorius the third that succéeded the same foresaid Innocent, mainteined the same cause in defense of king John, as earnestlie or rather more than his predecessour had doone, sending with all spéed his buls ouer into England to confirme Gualo in his former authoritie of legat”

with Pope Innocent III (Gualo influenced the pope to favor King John's cause.) “¶ At the same time there was in the court of Rome (as Hector Boetius saith) a cardinall named Gualo or Wallo, a verie couetous person, and such a one (as in that place some are neuer wanting) which for monie passed not what he did to further anie mans suit, without regard either to right or wrong, by whose chiefe trauell and means the pope was greatlie induced to fauour king Johns cause, and to iudge with him in preiudice of the lords purposes, as before is expressed.”
with King John (Gualo's efforts advanced King John's cause through the pope.) “At the same time there was in the court of Rome (as Hector Boetius saith) a cardinall named Gualo or Wallo, a verie couetous person, and such a one (as in that place some are neuer wanting) which for monie passed not what he did to further anie mans suit, without regard either to right or wrong, by whose chiefe trauell and means the pope was greatlie induced to fauour king Johns cause, and to iudge with him in preiudice of the lords purposes, as before is expressed.”

enemies with Louis VIII “This legat immediatlie after his comming did excommunicate Lewes by name, with all his fautors and complices”
enemies with Simon Langton “This legat immediatlie after his comming did excommunicate Lewes by name, with all his fautors and complices, but speciallie Simon de Langton, with bell, booke, and candle, as the maner was.”
allies with King John “came vnto king John, then soiourning at Glocester, of whome he was most ioifullie receiued, for in him king John reposed all his hope of victorie”

enemies with Louis VIII “sending with all spéed his buls ouer into England to confirme Gualo in his former authoritie of legat, commanding him with all indeuour to procéed in his businesse, in mainteining the king against Lewes”
with Pope Honorius III (interaction) “sending with all spéed his buls ouer into England to confirme Gualo in his former authoritie of legat, commanding him with all indeuour to procéed in his businesse”

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