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Oldcastle

[ ohld-kas-uhl, -kah-suhl ]

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.


Oldcastle

/ ˈəʊldˌkɑːsəl /

noun

  1. OldcastleSir John?13781417MEnglishPOLITICS: Lollard leader 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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Shakespeare's hostility to the Protestants induced him, we are told, to pour contempt on Oldcastle by depicting him as Falstaff.

The favour of the royal house was the more noteable that Oldcastle was known as "leader and captain" of the Lollards.

Oldcastle escaped, and for four years longer strove to rouse revolt after revolt.

On the eve of his departure he detected and quelled a plot as wild and futile as that of Oldcastle.

Oldcastle was by no means free from trouble during the reign of Richard II.

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