Oldcastle

American  

[ohld-kas-uhl, -kah-suhl] / ˈoʊldˌkæs əl, -ˌkɑ səl /

noun

1. Sir John (Lord Cobham), 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.

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Oldcastle British  

/ ˈəʊldˌkɑːsəl /

noun

1. Sir John, Baron Cobham. ?1378–1417, Lollard leader. In 1411 he led an English army in France but in 1413 he was condemned as a heretic and later hanged and burnt. He is thought to have been a model for Shakespeare's character Falstaff in Henry IV

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Oldcastle

It is being presented by Bickford in a partnership with Oldcastle and the Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, based in Madison and currently without a performing space, where Mr. Pietrowski is the artistic director.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2011

Perhaps the set functioned better at the Oldcastle Theater Company in Vermont, where this production first appeared in August.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2011

Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am very sure that Mrs. Oldcastle was never what is called a flirt, and I believe the general tone of our conversations was sufficiently rational.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

But the place is more noticed as having been the residence of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, the companion of Henry the Fifth, and afterwards chief of the Lollards, and martyr to their religious views. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber