Thomas Molineux

Also known as: Molineux / sir Thomas Molineux · Family: England · Role: constable of the castle of Chester · First appears: Richard II 40

Life events

c. 1388 · Richard II appointed Thomas Molineux constable of the castle of Chester.(Richard II 40 · 📍 Chester)
- With: Richard II
- “he appointed one Thomas Molineux constable of the castell of Chester, a man of high valiancie, and great power in the parties of Cheshire and Lancashire”
c. 1388 · Richard II ordered Thomas Molineux, Ralph Vernon, and Richard Ratcliffe to raise and lead an army.(Richard II 40)
- With: Richard II Ralph Vernon Richard Ratcliffe
- “Moreuer, the king sent to sir Rafe Vernon, & sir Richard Ratcliffe, willing them to assist the other. And so thus they set forward with the number of fiue thousand men.”
c. 1388 · Thomas Mortimer killed Thomas Molineux after he surrendered and came out of the river.(Richard II 41)
- With: Thomas Mortimer
- “But as he came vp, the knight caught him by the helmet, plucked it off his head, & streightwaies drawing foorth his dagger, stroke him into the braines, and so dispatched him.”

sworn: Richard II “Whervpon the king being out of quiet for the absence of him and other his best beloued councellors, whom he so much esteemed, and namelie of the duke of Ireland, and the said earle of Suffolke, he appointed one Thomas Molineux constable of the castell of Chester, a man of high valiancie, and great power in the parties of Cheshire and Lancashire to raise an armie of men, with the assistance of the shiriffe of Cheshire, to whom his commission of authoritie in that behalfe, vnder the great seale was directed, to the end that they might conueie the duke of Ireland in all safetie vnto the kings presence.”
allies with Ralph Vernon “But the duke of Ireland hauing with him Molineux, Vernon, and Ratcliffe, rode forward in statelie and glorious araie, with an armie (as ye haue heard) of fiue thousand men, supposing that none durst come foorth to withstand him.”
allies with Richard Ratcliffe “But the duke of Ireland hauing with him Molineux, Vernon, and Ratcliffe, rode forward in statelie and glorious araie, with an armie (as ye haue heard) of fiue thousand men, supposing that none durst come foorth to withstand him.”

enemies with Thomas Mortimer “But as he came vp, the knight caught him by the helmet, plucked it off his head, & streightwaies drawing foorth his dagger, stroke him into the braines, and so dispatched him.”

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