John Oldcastle

Abt 1370 - 1417  (~ 47 years)

• Name	John Oldcastle  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1370  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Dec 1417	St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, England   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I19630	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Oldcastle,   b. of Almeley, Herefordshire, England
  Mother	Isabel
  Family ID	F16253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine ferch Richard ab Ieuan   d. Bef Jun 1408
  Marriage	Bef 1394  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Matilda   d. Between 8 Oct 1457 and 4 Nov 1457, Ash-juxta-Sandwich, Kent, England
  Family ID	F11923	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Herefordshire, Jan 1404. Following his second marriage, to Joan de la Pole, Lady Cobham, as jure uxoris Lord Cobham he was summoned to Parliament by a series of writs from 26 Oct 1409 until 22 Mar 1413. The place of his execution is the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, and Charing Cross Road. Centre Point rises from the northwest corner of this intersection. From Wikipedia: 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. The detailed account of him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography can be read here. His History of Parliament entry is here. A casual account of him is here.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.