Matildis

Family: Church · Role: anchoress · First appears: Richard II 61

Life events

• 1392 · Matildis appeared before William Courtenay, renounced her errors, and received penance.(Richard II 61 · 📍 saint Iames his abbeie at Northampton)
  • With: William Courtenay
  • “Now she appeared at the day appointed, and renouncing hir errours, and hauing penance inioined hir, she went awaie reformed.”

Richard II 61

• with William Courtenay (William Courtenay subjected Matildis to ecclesiastical correction and citation.) “The archbishop departing from thence, went to saint Peters church, to a certeine anchoresse named Matildis there kept as in a closet, whom he reprouing about the foresaid errors and opinions of the Lollards, and finding hir answers scarse aduisedlie made, cited hir that she should appeare before him, on the sundaie next insuing, in saint Iames his abbeie at Northampton, to answer vnto the foresaid erronious and prophane points.”

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