Lisle Adam

Also known as: lord Lisle Adam · Family: England · Role: marshal of France · First appears: Henry VI 20

Life events

c. 1432 · John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford sent forces under Lisle Adam to besiege Laignie.(Henry VI 20 · 📍 Laignie)
- With: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
- “The duke of Bedford on his part sent the earle of Arundell, the earle of Warwikes sonne, the lord Lisle Adam marshall of France for king Henrie, and twelue hundred men of warre with ordinance and munition to besiege the town of Laignie vpon the riuer of Marne.”

sworn: Henry VI “The duke of Bedford on his part sent the earle of Arundell, the earle of Warwikes sonne, the lord Lisle Adam marshall of France for king Henrie, and twelue hundred men of warre with ordinance and munition to besiege the town of Laignie vpon the riuer of Marne.”
allies with John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury “After he had rested himselfe a while at Paris, and taken aduise with the councell there, what waie it should be best for him to take, without prolonging time; he with the lord de Lisle Adam and others, departed from thence, hauing in their retinues sixtéene hundred men of warre.”
with Piers Audebeufe (Piers Audebeufe allowed Lisle Adam, the marshal of France, to infiltrate the castle.) “Piers Audebeufe constable of the castell of Rone, corrupted with monie, suffered the marshall of France, with two hundred other, as persons disguised to enter the place by stealth”

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