Papacy — Minor Figures
7 figures from Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Durant
legate · first appears King John 16
- King John 16 · with King John “In the same yeare also, the pope sent two legats into England, the one named Pandulph a lawier, and the other Durant a templer, who comming vnto king John, exhorted him with manie terrible words to leaue his stubborne disobedience to the church, and to reforme his misdooings.”
- King John 16 · enemies with King John “In the same yeare also, the pope sent two legats into England, the one named Pandulph a lawier, and the other Durant a templer, who comming vnto king John, exhorted him with manie terrible words to leaue his stubborne disobedience to the church, and to reforme his misdooings.”
Pope Julius II
pope · first appears Edward IV 24
- Edward IV 24 · with Henry VII “By reason whereof, king Henrie the seauenth sued to Pope Iulio the second, to haue him canonized a saint.”
John Ferentino
papal legate · first appears King John 12
- King John 12 · sworn: Pope Innocent III “came one John Ferentino ... a legat from the pope into England”
Peter des Roches
bishop of Winchester · first appears King John 28
- King John 28 · with Pope Innocent III “gaue commandement to Peter the bishop of Winchester, to the abbat of Reading, and to the subdeacon Pandulph, to pronounce the sentence of excommunication against them”
- King John 28 · sworn: Pope Innocent III “gaue commandement to Peter the bishop of Winchester, to the abbat of Reading, and to the subdeacon Pandulph, to pronounce the sentence of excommunication against them.”
Pope Callixtus III
pope · first appears Henry VI 17
- Henry VI 17 · with Charles VII “he pact with pope Calixt the third, by whose mandat directed to his thrée delegats”
- Henry VI 17 · allies with Charles VII “he pact with pope Calixt the third, by whose mandat directed to his thrée delegats”
Julian Cesarini
legate · first appears Henry VI 22
- Henry VI 22 · sworn: Pope Eugene IV “Wherevpon as the councell the ninetéenth of Iulie the same 1431 was there begun, and his holinesse soone after aduertised how malapertlie his ghostlie children had imbusied themselues in checking at their holie fathers faults, and about reformation of his church at Rome; his sublimitie therat highlie offended (for great cause it had) commanded his legat by and by to dissolue that synod, and in his name to appoint a new at Ferrar, and so come his waie”
Urban V
pope · first appears Richard II 82
- Richard II 82 · with John Thoresbie “Iohn Thoresbie archbishop of Yorke and lord chancellor of England, was admitted by pope Vrbane the fift into the college of cardinals”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.