Person:John Oldcastle (1)
John Oldcastell, Lord Oldcastle
b.Abt 1370 of, Almeley, Herefordshire, England
d.14 Dec 1417 St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, Middlesex, England
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Name John Oldcastell, Lord Oldcastle
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Abt 1370 of, Almeley, Herefordshire, England
Marriage Bef 18 Jul 1408 to Joan de la Pole, Baroness Cobham
Death[1][3][2] 14 Dec 1417 St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, Middlesex, England
Reference Number? Q168725?

KINSHIP: Son and heir. KINSHIP: 4th husband of 3rd wife.

BIRTH: Date> Probably about 1370.

OFFICE: Captain of Builth Castle 1400; constable of Kidwelly Castle; keeper of the castle and town of Hay 1404. OFFICE: Knight of the shire Herefordshire, England 1403/1404. OFFICE: [J.P.] Justice of the Peace 1406; sheriff 1406. ASSIGNMENTS: Summoned to Parliament 1409-1412/1413.

DISTINCTION: Leader of the Lollards. HONORS: Knighted before 1400.

TITLES: Became by writ Lord Oldcastle or Lord Cobham 1409. TITLES: Extinct> Upon his death in 1417 any Barony created by writ became extinct.

RESIDENCE: Of Almeley, Herfordshire, England.

PUNISHMENT: Imprisonment and Execution> Pronounced by Court Eccelesiastical an incorrigible heretic 1413; imprisoned in Tower; escaped from Tower; captured in Wales, conveyed to London, tried and sentenced to be hanged; hanged as a heretic as a Lollard, and a traitor.

DEATH: Cause> Hanged. DEATH: Date Correction> Listed as "25 Dec 1417" in 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 3 p. 345, and 'Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists', 2nd ed. p. 383 WYATT:8; day of death amended to "14th" in the 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 14 p. 195 [COBHAM p. 345 line 21].

INVESTIGATE: Kinship> Has been stated that he had by 1st wife, 2 sons and 2 daughters, not identified; by 2nd wife, no issue; by 3rd wife, a daughter who was presumably Joan, Lady Cobham's daughter by her second husband, Sir Reynold Braybroke, see The Complete Peerage vol. 10 p. 48 fn. b.


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Sir John Oldcastle (died 14 December 1417) was an English Lollard leader. Being a friend of Henry V, he long escaped prosecution for heresy. When convicted, he escaped from the Tower of London and then led a rebellion against the King. Eventually, he was captured and executed in London. He formed the basis for William Shakespeare's character John Falstaff, who was originally called John Oldcastle.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, c2004)
    p. 383 WYATT:8.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, c2004)
    p. 776 WYATT:12.
  3. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, c2004).
  4.   John Oldcastle, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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