John Mortimer

Also known as: sir Iohn / sir Iohn Mortimer · Family: England · Role: nobleman · First appears: Henry VI 4

Life events

• 1424 · John Mortimer was attainted of treason and executed.(Henry VI 4)
  • “In the time of this parlement also was sir Iohn Mortimer cousine to the same earle, either for desert or malice, atteinted of treason, and put to execution, of whose death no small slander arose amongst the common people.”
• c. 1460 · Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and seven named supporters were killed, and his army was defeated.(Henry VI 63 · 📍 Wakefield)
  • With: Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York Hugh Mortimer David Hall Hugh Hastings Thomas Neville William Aparre Thomas Aparre
  • “But when he was in the plaine field betwéene his castell and the towne of Wakefield, he was inuironed on euerie side, like fish in a net, so that though he fought manfullie, yet was he within halfe an houre slaine and dead, and his whole armie discomfited: with him died of his trustie fréends, his two bastard vncles, sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers, sir Dauie Hall, sir Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Neuill, William and Thomas Aparre, both brethren; and two thousand and eight hundred others”

Henry VI 4

• cousins with Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March “In the time of this parlement also was sir Iohn Mortimer cousine to the same earle, either for desert or malice, atteinted of treason, and put to execution, of whose death no small slander arose amongst the common people.”
• cousins with Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge “In the time of this parlement also was sir Iohn Mortimer cousine to the same earle”

Henry VI 63

• younger kin: Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York “with him died of his trustie fréends, his two bastard vncles, sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers”

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