Walter Disse

Family: Church · Role: Carmelite friar · First appears: Richard II 35

Life events

c. 1387 · Walter Disse obtained papal faculties from Pope Urban VI for distribution to paying petitioners.(Richard II 35)
- With: Pope Urban VI
- “About the same time, a frier Carmelite, named Walter Disse, that had béene confessor to the duke of Lancaster, obteined in fauour of the same duke, at pope Vrbans hands, certeine faculties, to be distributed to such as would praie & paie for them.”

with Pope Urban VI (Pope Urban VI granted faculties to Walter Disse.) “Shortlie after, by the counsell of those lords and knights that remained about the king, the lord Henrie Percie, sonne to the earle of Northumberland, was sent to the seas, to beate backe the attempts of the enimies, but he was slenderlie appointed to atchiue anie great enterprise. This was doone of some enuious purpose, bicause he had got a name amongest the common people, to be a verie hardie and valiant gentleman, as well among Englishmen, as Scots. But he either ignorant, or not much waieng of that which they craftilie had imagined against him, boldlie and valiantlie executed the businesse inioined him, and hauing remained abroad, during the whole time of his appointed seruice, returned safelie home. ¶ About the same time, a frier Carmelite, named Walter Disse, that had béene confessor to the duke of Lancaster, obteined in fauour of the same duke, at pope Vrbans hands, certeine faculties, to be distributed to such as would praie & paie for them.”

with John of Gaunt (Walter Disse was confessor to John of Gaunt, identified here through the duke of Lancaster and his wife Constance.) “he was also confessor to the duke of Lancaster, and to his wife the duchesse Constance”
with Constance of Castile (Walter Disse was Constance's confessor.) “he was also confessor to the duke of Lancaster, and to his wife the duchesse Constance”

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