Jacqueline of Hainaut

Also known as: Iaquelin / Iaquet · Role: lady · First appears: Henry VI 5

Life events

c. 1424 · Pope Martin V ruled Jacqueline of Hainaut’s first marriage valid and her marriage to Humphrey unlawful.(Henry VI 5)
- With: Pope Martin V Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
- “they procured pope Martin the fift (before whome the matter was) to giue sentence that the first matrimonie with the duke of Brabant was good, and the second with the duke of Glocester to be vnlawfull.”
c. 1424 · Fitz Walter’s English force was defeated, suffering heavy casualties while aiding Jacqueline of Hainaut.(Henry VI 5 · 📍 Brewers hauen)
- With: Fitz Walter
- “there discomfited them; so that of English, Hollanders, and Zelanders, with the said lord Fitz Walter, were slaine seauen or eight hundred, and the residue chased to the water.”

married with Humphrey Duke of Gloucester “At length, when the duke of Glocester vnderstood the sentence pronounced against him by the pope, he began to wax wearie of his wife the said ladie Iaquet, by whome he neuer had profit, but losse”
allies with Fitz Walter “the lord Fitz Walter was sent ouer to the aid of the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin, with a power of Englishmen”

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