Sir Walter Blunt

Family: England · Role: standard-bearer · First appears: Henry IV 13

Life events

• c. 1403 · Nine named knights received knighthood before being killed in the battle.(Henry IV 13)
  • With: Sir Hugh Shirley Sir John Clifton Sir John Cokayne Sir Nicholas Gausell Sir John Calverley Sir John Massie of Podington Sir Hugh Mortimer Sir Robert Gausell
  • “sir Hugh Shorlie, sir Iohn Clifton, sir Iohn Cokaine, sir Nicholas Gausell, sir Walter Blunt, sir Iohn Caluerleie, sir Iohn Massie of Podington, sir Hugh Mortimer, and sir Robert Gausell, all the which receiued the same morning the order of knighthood”
• c. 1403 · Nine named knights serving Henry IV were killed in the battle.(Henry IV 13)
  • With: Sir Hugh Shirley Sir John Clifton Sir John Cokayne Sir Nicholas Gausell Sir John Calverley Sir John Massie of Podington Sir Hugh Mortimer Sir Robert Gausell
  • “There were slaine vpon the kings part, beside the earle of Stafford, to the number of ten knights, sir Hugh Shorlie, sir Iohn Clifton, sir Iohn Cokaine, sir Nicholas Gausell, sir Walter Blunt, sir Iohn Caluerleie, sir Iohn Massie of Podington, sir Hugh Mortimer, and sir Robert Gausell”

Henry IV 13

• sworn: Henry IV “they gaue such a violent onset vpon them that stood about the kings standard, that slaieing his standard-bearer sir Walter Blunt, and ouerthrowing the standard”
• enemies with Hotspur (Hotspur's attacking force kills the king's standard-bearer.) “Here the lord Henrie Persie, and the earle Dowglas, a right stout and hardie capteine, not regarding the shot of the kings battell, nor the close order of the ranks, pressing forward togither bent their whole forces towards the kings person, comming vpon him with speares and swords so fiercelie, that the earle of March the Scot, perceiuing their purpose, withdrew the king from that side of the field (as some write) for his great benefit and safegard (as it appeared) for they gaue such a violent onset vpon them that stood about the kings standard, that slaieing his standard-bearer sir Walter Blunt, and ouerthrowing the standard, they made slaughter of all those that stood about it”

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