John Clearke

Also known as: sir I. Clearke / sir Iohn Clearke · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Richard II 6

Life events

• c. 1379 · John Clearke died after being mortally wounded while protecting English ships from French attackers.(Richard II 6 · 📍 Britaine)
  • “but when he that had thus preserued others shuld leape foorth of the ship to saue himselfe, he was striken on the thigh with an ax, that downe he fell, and so came into the enimies hands, being not able to recouer that hurt, for his thigh was almost quite cut off from the bodie, so that he died of that and other hurts presentlie”

Richard II 6

• allies with Hugh Calverley “one sir I. Clearke a right valiant knight, & fellow in armes with sir Hugh Caluerlie, chanced this yeare to lie in garrison in a castell in Britaine”

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