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Participant


First name	Simon
Last name	Sudbury
Gender	Male
Occupation	Archbishop of Canterbury;Chancellor
Source	TNA KB 27/483 rex m. 26
Role in source	Mentioned

Incidents

ID	Summary	Description	Location	Role	View incident
2596	Henry Blundel as accomplice to murder of Simon Sudbury	[The jurors] also say that Henry Blundel made insurrection against the peace of our Lord the King, and was aiding and abetting, with other unknown malefactors, when Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury, was feloniously killed at London, viz. on Friday next after the feast of the Holy Trinity, in the year of the King that now is, the fourth (14th June, 1381).	Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
2599	Richard de Denne as accomplice in killing of Simon Sudbury	[The jurors] also say that Richard de Denne raised insurrection, with others unknown, and made proclamation from vill to vill, viz. on Monday next after the feast of the Holy ... fourth year of the reign of the King that now is, and continued this till Friday next after the feast of Corpus Christi (14th June, 1381), on which day Simon archbishop of Canterbury, was feloniously killed at London, and they say that the fore said Richard was there present, aiding and abetting in the death of the said Simon.	Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
2601	Roger Baldewyn as accomplice in killing of Simon Sudbury	The Jurors say on their oath, that Roger Baldewyn, of Boughton-under-Blean [Bocton-subtus-le-Bleen], raised insurrection, with other malefactors, on Wednesday next after the feast of the Holy Trinity, in the fourth year of the reign of the King that now is (12th June, 1381), and was aiding and abetting when Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury, was feloniously killed, and was there and then present.	Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
2628	Burning of the custumal of Petham of the Archbishop of Canterbury by Henry Aleyn and John Colyn	[The jurors] also say that the foresaid Henry Aleyn and John Colyn burnt the Custumal of Petham, of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, on Sunday next after the feast of St. Barnabas, in the fourth year of the reign of King Richard the Second (16th June, 1381).	Petham,Kent	Victim	View Incident page
2684	Robert Man in Sheppey confesses that he took the (Arch)bishop of Canterbury at the Tower	Robert Man in Sheppey confesses that he took the (Arch)bishop of Canterbury at the Tower	Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
2703	William Shepere steals Simon Sudbury's horse	William Shepere of Maidstone [dated after Trinity but full date illegible] took a grey horse lately belonging to Simon Archbishop of Canterbury [and rode it straight to Maidstone].	Maidstone,Kent	Victim	View Incident page
2738	John Rous breaks into Simon Sudbury's barge, 14 June 1381	John Rous fled because he was in a certain barge of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 14th June 1381 and for the same reason John Henry, Richard Newman and others are imprisoned in Newgate.	Kent	Victim	View Incident page
2758	Michael Walde and William Prentis break into various houses and abet killings of Simon Sudbury and Robert Hales, 10 June 1381	Michael Walde of Middleton and William Prentis of Newington on 10th June 1381 feloniously broke into the houses of John Sokelyng, John Catesby, Simon [Haye], John Tebbe and Thomas Garwynton, and afterwards procured and abetted the killing of the archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Hales prior of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in England.	Kent	Victim	View Incident page
3298	John Torpirlee tried to kill Thomas Batail in Matching and took part in the killing of Simon Sudbury in London.	John Torpirlee came with others to Matching to the house of Thomas Batail with intend to kill and joined rebels going to London where he took part in the killing of Simon Sudbury at the Tower.	Matching,Essex; Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
3684	Confirmation of John Saferay's pardon and restoration of his lands	John Saferay of Stow-cum-Quy was pardoned on 22 November 1381 for his involvement in the revolt, on condition he was not a ringleader or involved in the killing of Simon Sudbury, Robert Hales, John de Cavendish or the Prior of Bury, or the burning of the manors of the Savoy or Clerkenwell. Therefore Robert Pays, escheator, is ordered to restore his lands.	Cambridgeshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4095	Pardon to John Glasene, John Webbe, Robert Piers, John Somenour and William Chaumberleyn	Pardon to John Glasene, John Webbe, Robert Piers, John Somenour and William Chaumberleyn for the crimes committed at Manningtree [see Incidents 4090 and 4092] at the request of Queen Anne.	Colchester,Essex; Mile End,Middlesex; Manningtree,Essex	Mentioned	View Incident page
4147	Thomas Payntour rises up at St Albans	It was presented that Thomas Payntour of St Albans on 14 June 1381 painted a banner with the king's arms and went with various traitors to St Albans and threw down the houses of Richard Stryveyn, John Clerk and Robert atte Chaumbre. Thomas Payntour is led from the Marshalsea and produces a pardon, along with Richard Walyngford of St Albans; they are released and mainprised.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4148	William Berewyk and Richard Walyngford rise up at St Albans	It was presented that William Berewyk and Richard Walyngford on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June 1381 came from London with a banner and rose up at St Albans with the community of that town. They are brought before the king's bench from the Marshalsea by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbot of St Albans and produce the king's pardon. They are released and mainprised.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4149	John Wayt rises up at St Albans	John Wayt rose up at St Albans with the community of that town on Friday 14 June 1381, and threw down the manor houses of the abbey of St Albans. He was led from the Marshalsea by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbey and brought before the king's bench. He produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is released and mainprised.	St Albans,Hertfordshire; Abbey of St Albans,St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4150	Gilbert Taillour rises up St Albans	Gilbert Taillour rose up at St Albans with a wicked company on Friday 14 June 1381, and said that if one man was killed then the manors of the abbot of St Albans would be burnt and the abbey thrown down. He was led from the Marshalsea by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbey and brought before the king's bench. He produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is released and mainprised.	Abbey of St Albans,St Albans,Hertfordshire; St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4151	John Tyler rises up at St Albans	John Tyler and others rose up on Friday 21 June 1381 and threw down a house belonging to the abbot of St Albans called 'le Thwerthonerhous', and on Saturday 22 June 1381 they threw down the houses of Robert atte Chaumbre, Richard Screvayne and John Clerk at St Albans, and broke the prison of the abbot of St Albans and led out the prisoners. John Tyler is led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench and produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is mainprised and released.	St Albans,Hertfordshire; Abbey of St Albans,St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4152	Thomas Bynorthen rises up at St Albans	Thomas Bynorthen was arrested at St Albans on suspicion of treasonable insurrection and was committed to the custody of the bailiffs of the abbot of St Albans. He is led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench and produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is mainprised and released.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4153	Edmund Cook rises up at St Albans	Edmund Cook of Berkhamsted with about 40 others of the same village on Saturday 15 June 1381 went to St Albans and rode to the house of Robert atte Chaumbre and stayed on their horses while the house was thrown down. Edmund Cook was led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbot of St Albans and produced a pardon under the general amnesty; he is mainprised and released.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4154	John Garlek rises up at St Albans	John Garlek and others on Friday 14 June 1381 came from London to St Albans with a banner raised against the king. John Garlek is led from the Marshalsea by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbot of St Albans and produces a pardon under the genera amnesty; he is mainprised and released.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4156	Stephen atte Hethe rises up at St Albans	Stephen atte Hethe was arrested on suspicion of treasonable insurrection against the king at St Albans. He is led from the Marshalsea by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbot of St Albans and produces a pardon under the general amnesty. He is mainprised and released.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4157	John Smyth takes part in burning of the Savoy and the manor of the Prior of Clerkenwell	It was presented that John Smyth of Lewisham together with other traitors on Thursday 13 June 1381 rose up and burnt the Duke of Lancaster's manor of the Savoy and the manor of the Prior of Clerkenwell. John Smyth is led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench and produces a pardon by request of Queen Anne; he is mainprised and released.	Savoy Palace,Middlesex; Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex	Mentioned	View Incident page
4158	John son of William Clerk, chaplain - no crimes specified	John son of William Clerk, chaplain, captured and detained in the Tower of London - no crimes specified. He is committed to the Marshalsea; he appears and produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is mainprised and released.		Mentioned	View Incident page
4163	John Porel rises up at St Albans	John Porel with other malefactors on Sunday 16 June 1381 treasonably threw down the houses of John Clerk, Richard Stryveyn and Robert atte Chambre in St Albans, and on Saturday 15 June helped John Baron break the prison, and they took away an unknown man in the prison there and beheaded him. John Porel is led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench and produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is released.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4168	John Northbourne and John Usscher behead Simon Sudbury and Robert Hales, and break the houses of Andrew Brewere and John Botirwyk	On the following day [14 June 1381] they went to the Tower of London and helped [fuerunt adiutores] in the beheading of the Archbishop [Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury], the Master of St John [Robert Hales, Master of the Hospitallers] and others and afterwards broke the houses of Andrew Brewere [also known as Andrew Tettesworth, a brewer and notorious promoter of false lawsuits] at the Strand and John Botirwyk [John Butterwick, under-sheriff of Middlesex] next Knightsbridge.	Tower of London,London; Strand,Middlesex; Knightsbridge,Middlesex	Victim	View Incident page
4170	Accounts of William Pakyngton, Keeper of the Wardrobe, 3-5 Richard II	Valuation of goods and chattels of rebels and victims.		Victim	View Incident page
4201	Joanna Ferrour burns the Hospital of St John at Clerkenwell, and orders the beheading of Simon Sudbury and Robert Hales	On Friday 14 June 1381 the said Joanna went as head of the said company to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England and made a fire there and completely burnt that house, and carried off two horses loaded with wool worth 6 marks. And the same Joanna together with others went as chief leader to the Tower of London, and laid violent hands first on Simon, lately archbishop of Canterbury, and then on Brother Robert Hales, lately Prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, and she dragged them out of the Tower of London and ordered that they be beheaded.	Tower of London,London; Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex	Victim	View Incident page
4213	Peter Bolom rises up at St Albans	Peter Bolom and others treasonably and feloniously rose up at St Albans on Saturday 15 June 1381. He appears and produces a pardon.	St Albans,Hertfordshire	Mentioned	View Incident page
4214	William Plomer burns the Savoy and the Hospital of St John	William Plomer of Greenwich, at the same time with other traitors of the lord king, feloniously and traitorously made an insurrection against the lord king and his faithful subjects on Thursday 13 June 1381, and set fire to the houses of John, duke of Lancaster, at the Savoy in the county of Middlesex, and the houses and church of St John of Jerusalem in England at Smithfield, and was the principal actor in the aforesaid insurrection. He produces a pardon, is mainprised and goes free.	Savoy Palace,Middlesex; Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex	Mentioned	View Incident page
4236	John Ferrour and others order the beheading of Sudbury and Hales	On Friday 14 June 1381 John Ferrour and others came to the Tower of London, as if the principal leaders, and first of all thrust violent hands upon Simon, late archbishop of Canterbury, and brother Robert Hales, late prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, and dragged them out of the Tower of London and ordered them to be beheaded. John appears and pleads not guilty; the jury acquit him. Order to William Walleworth to determine whether John is indicted of any crimes in the City of London, as he is one of those exempted from the general pardon; Walleworth returns that there are no indictments.	Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
4239	Roger atte Wode orders the beheading of Sudbury and Hales	On Friday 14 June 1381 Roger atte Wode came to the Tower of London as the principal leader and thrust violent hands upon Simon, late archbishop of Canterbury, and brother Robert Hales, late prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, and dragged them out of the Tower of London and ordered them to be beheaded. Roger produces a pardon and goes free.	Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
4247	William Osebarn and others rise up at Kingston	William Osebarn, Robert Sutton, John Surpyton and William Crisp, were those who firstly made an insurrection with diverse other wrongdoers, whose names they do not know, traitorously against the lord king and his people in the vill of Kingston upon Thames, aforesaid, and the adjacent places in the county of Surrey, aforesaid, and were leaders of others so insurging with them. They produce pardons and go free.	Kingston Upon Thames,Surrey	Mentioned	View Incident page
4271	Theobald Elys beheads Sudbury and Hales, and burns the Savoy	Theobald Elys of the county of Kent, on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 June 1381, was one of the principal men, with a multitude of other traitors, who made an insurrection against the lord king in the county of Middlesex, and that the same Theobald was the one who first assented and advised in the county of Middlesex to behead Simon, archbishop of Canterbury, then chancellor of the lord king, and similarly they afterwards feloniously and traitorously beheaded the prior of St John of Jerusalem in England on the abovesaid day and year. And also that the same Theobald, on the abovesaid day and year, was one of the principal men, who feloniously and traitorously burnt down the manor of the Savoy and the house of St John of Jerusalem in England as an enemy of the lord king, and that he is a common robber.	Savoy Palace,Middlesex; Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex	Victim	View Incident page
4298	John and Joanna Ferrour and others burn the Hospital of St John and instigate the murders of Sudbury and Hales	On Friday 14 June 1381 John Ferrour of Rochester, Joanna his wife, David Calvelei, clerk, and Roger atte Wode came as the principal actors to the house of St John of Jerusalem in England and placed a fire there, and they fully burnt down the said house, and loaded and carried away two horses there with wool, worth six marks, and that the same John, David, Joan and Roger came at the Tower of London as the principal leaders and thrust violent hands firstly upon Simon, late archbishop of Canterbury, and brother Robert Hales, late prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, abovesaid, and made the aforesaid insurrections, burnings and felonies feloniously and traitorously on the aforesaid day and year, etc.	Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex; Tower of London,London	Victim	View Incident page
4501	Richard Horsman rises up and burns documents at Tring	Richard Horsman, together with others, made an insurrection firstly by his own authority, on Monday 17 June 1381, and he was the principal insurrector against the lord king and his crown and allegiance treasonably, and he made a standard of the arms of St George and went with the aforesaid standard into diverse parts of the county of Hertfordshire, and made certain proclamations so that men of the aforesaid county might rise up against the lord king and his crown to the disinheritance of the said lord king. And also he treasonably and feloniously burnt books, muniments and rolls of the archbishop of Canterbury about Tring at Tring.	Hertfordshire; Tring,Hertfordshire	Victim	View Incident page
4568	Commission to enquire into withdrawal of services in Harrow and Pinner	Commission to William Naverton, William Barnvill and Thomas Pynnore, to enquire touching trespasses committed in the manor of Harewe [Harrow] and park of Pynnore [Pinner], Midd, parcel of the temporalities of the archbishopric of Canterbury, now void and in the king's hands by the death of Simon, late archbishop, and the withdrawal of rents and services due to the king therefor, and to return their inquisitions into Chancery.	Pinner,Middlesex; Harrow,Middlesex	Victim	View Incident page

Biographical Information

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Relationships

person 1	relationship with person 2	person 2	relationship with person 1	Certainty	Sources	Comments
Thomas Cook ( 11834 )	Associate	Simon Sudbury ( 6098 )	Associate	Certain		formerly dwelling with Simon archbishop of Canterbury

Other Cases of the Same Person

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