James Tyrrell

Also known as: sir Iames Tirrell · Role: knight · First appears: Richard III 2

Life events

• c. 1483 · Richard III commanded Robert Brakenbury to surrender the Tower keys to James Tyrrell for one night.(Richard III 3 · 📍 Tower)
  • With: Richard III Robert Brackenbury
  • “Wherefore on the morow he sent him to Brakenberie with a letter, by which he was commanded to deliuer sir Iames all the keies of the Tower for one night, to the end he might there accomplish the kings pleasure, in such things as he had giuen him commandement.”
• c. 1483 · The murderers buried the princes beneath stones at the stair foot.(Richard III 3)
  • With: Miles Forrest John Dighton
  • “Which after that the wretches perceiued, first by the strugling with the paines of death, and after long lieng still, to be thoroughlie dead, they laid their bodies naked out vpon the bed, and fetched sir Iames to sée them; which vpon the sight of them, caused those murtherers to burie them at the staire foot, méetlie déepe in the ground, vnder a great heape of stones.”
• c. 1483 · James Tyrrell reported the murders to Richard III and received his thanks.(Richard III 3)
  • With: Richard III
  • “Then rode sir Iames in great hast to king Richard, and shewed him all the maner of the murther; who gaue him great thanks, and (as some saie) there made him knight.”
• c. 1483 · James Tyrrell and John Dighton confessed the princes' murder during treason examinations.(Richard III 3 · 📍 Tower)
  • With: John Dighton Henry VII
  • “Verie truth is it, and well knowne, that at such time as sir Iames Tirrell was in the Tower, for treason committed against the most famous prince king Henrie the seauenth, both Dighton and he were examined, and confessed the murther in maner aboue written:”
• c. 1483 · James Tyrrell was beheaded for treason.(Richard III 3 · 📍 Tower hill)
  • “But sir Iames Tirrell died at the Tower hill beheaded for treason.”

Richard III 2

• with Richard III (interaction) “Sir (quoth his page) there lieth one on your pallet without, that I dare well saie, to doo your grace pleasure, the thing were right hard that he would refuse.”

Richard III 3

• siblings with Thomas Tyrrell “on which he found in bed sir Iames and sir Thomas Tirrels, of person like, and brethren of bloud, but nothing of kin in conditions.”
• rivals with Richard Ratcliffe “which longing for no mo parteners of the princes fauour; and namelie, not for him, whose pride they wist would beare no péere, kept him by secret drifts out of all secret trust”
• rivals with William Catesby “which longing for no mo parteners of the princes fauour; and namelie, not for him, whose pride they wist would beare no péere, kept him by secret drifts out of all secret trust”
• sworn: Richard III “Wherefore on the morow he sent him to Brakenberie with a letter, by which he was commanded to deliuer sir Iames all the keies of the Tower for one night, to the end he might there accomplish the kings pleasure, in such things as he had giuen him commandement.”
• with Miles Forrest (James Tyrrell appointed Miles Forrest to execute the murder.) “For sir Iames Tirrell deuised, that they should be murthered in their beds. To the execution whereof, he appointed Miles Forrest, one of the foure that kept them, a fellow fleshed in murther before time.”
• with John Dighton (James Tyrrell joined John Dighton to the murder.) “To the execution whereof, he appointed Miles Forrest, one of the foure that kept them, a fellow fleshed in murther before time. To him he ioined one Iohn Dighton his owne horssekéeper, a big, broad, square, and strong knaue.”
• enemies with Henry VII “at such time as sir Iames Tirrell was in the Tower, for treason committed against the most famous prince king Henrie the seauenth, both Dighton and he were examined, and confessed the murther in maner aboue written”
• servant: John Dighton “To him he ioined one Iohn Dighton his owne horssekéeper, a big, broad, square, and strong knaue.”

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