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Oldcastle

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Old·cas·tle  (ldksl, -käsl), Sir John. Lord Cobham. 1377?-1417.
English Lollard conspirator who was burned alive for heresy.
Oldcastle [ˈəʊldˌkɑːsəl]
n
(Biographies / Oldcastle, Sir John (?1378-1417) M, English, POLITICS: 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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Hence the fighting parson in the old play of Sir John Oldcastle, and the famous friar of Robin Hood's band.
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