Knowledge

Roger Bolingbroke

Source 📝

53:
In October 1440 he and Thomas Southwell produced a horoscope for Eleanor Cobham which predicted the death of King Henry, an event, which, if it were to have happened, would have meant the Duke of Gloucester would have become King and Eleanor his Queen.
73:
On 23 July 1441 Bolingbroke was brought before the Church authorities, and at St. Paul's Cross, London, he made a very public confession that his actions were not compatible with Christianity and he foreswore his diabolic activities.
141:
CCR 1441-1447, 5-6; PRO, KB 9/72 mm.1-5 and 11; CLRO, Jnl. of Common Council 3, f.104v; The Brut, ii, 480-81; English chronicle, 58, 60; Six town chronicles, 102, 116; Chronicles of London, 149, 155; Great Chronicle,
168: 64:
was also implicated. Jourdemayne was known as "The Witch of Eye" and was engaged in the conspiracy to provide spells and potions. She and Bolingbroke were the only two to be executed for their parts in the affair.
49:
He was the best known of the three scholars implicated in the "conspiracy" to bring about the death of King Henry. He was described as a ‘gret and konnyng man in astronomye’ and ‘renowned in all the world’,
77:
Around this time Bolingbroke also appeared before the Kings Council and was accused of treason as well as sorcery. At this point he accused his mistress, Eleanor Cobham, as having directed his actions.
57:
When the King heard of this prediction, The Kings Council charged Bolingbroke and Southwell, and another - John Home (or Hum), with conspiring to kill the King with necromancy.
173: 85:. The King's Commissioners found him guilty of various treasonable crimes. He was duly dragged on a hurdle that same day to Tyburn, where he was 39: 26:. He flourished in the first half of the 15th century. He was tried, convicted and executed for treasonable witchcraft on the person of 163: 183: 178: 86: 22:(died 18 November 1441) was a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged 132:
The Brut, ii, 478; English chronicle, 57; ‘William Gregory’s Chronicle’, 183-84; Chronicles of London
123:
English Chronicle, 57; ‘Wilhelmi Wyrcester Annales’, 763; Emden, Biographical Reg. Oxford, I, 214-15.
38:
Bolingbroke was a person of great intelligence and learning. He was part of the household of
158: 8: 61: 27: 103: 82: 43: 152: 90: 81:
On 18 November of that year, Bolingbroke was brought from the Tower to the
169:
People executed under the Plantagenets by hanging, drawing and quartering
23: 93:
and his quartered body was distributed around the country.
16:
Astrologer and alleged necromancer, executed as witch
150: 60:In addition to these scholars, a woman known as 101:Bolingbroke appears in William Shakespeare's 40:Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester 174:English people executed for witchcraft 151: 13: 14: 195: 96: 42:, and was the personal clerk to 135: 126: 117: 1: 110: 33: 89:. His head was displayed on 7: 164:15th-century English people 87:hanged, drawn and quartered 10: 200: 68: 184:Witch trials in England 179:Medieval occultists 62:Margery Jourdemayne 46:, the Duke's wife. 28:Henry VI of England 20:Roger Bolingbroke 191: 143: 139: 133: 130: 124: 121: 104:Henry VI, Part 2 83:London Guildhall 199: 198: 194: 193: 192: 190: 189: 188: 149: 148: 147: 146: 140: 136: 131: 127: 122: 118: 113: 107:as a conjurer. 99: 71: 36: 17: 12: 11: 5: 197: 187: 186: 181: 176: 171: 166: 161: 145: 144: 134: 125: 115: 114: 112: 109: 98: 95: 70: 67: 44:Eleanor Cobham 35: 32: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 196: 185: 182: 180: 177: 175: 172: 170: 167: 165: 162: 160: 157: 156: 154: 138: 129: 120: 116: 108: 106: 105: 97:In literature 94: 92: 91:London Bridge 88: 84: 79: 75: 66: 63: 58: 55: 51: 47: 45: 41: 31: 29: 25: 21: 137: 128: 119: 102: 100: 80: 76: 72: 59: 56: 52: 48: 37: 19: 18: 159:1441 deaths 24:necromancer 153:Categories 111:References 34:Conspiracy 69:Charges 142:176. 155:: 30:.

Index

necromancer
Henry VI of England
Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Eleanor Cobham
Margery Jourdemayne
London Guildhall
hanged, drawn and quartered
London Bridge
Henry VI, Part 2
Categories
1441 deaths
15th-century English people
People executed under the Plantagenets by hanging, drawing and quartering
English people executed for witchcraft
Medieval occultists
Witch trials in England

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.