John Kendal

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Medal, Sir John Kendal, 1480

Sir John Kendal († November 1501 ) was an English knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

Sir John Kendal came from the English gentry and entered the Order of St. John as a knight .

In 1480 he was Turcopolier (supervisor of the cavalry) of the Order of St. John on Rhodes and traveled as envoy of Pope Sixtus IV through England to raise funds and troops for the fight of the order against the Turks against the background of the siege of Rhodes (1480) . In this context, a medal was struck in his honor that is said to be the first of its kind in England.

Sir John Kendal became Grand Prior of his order for the Grand Priory of England in 1491 . As such, he had his official residence in Clerkenwell near London. He held the office until his death.

Though a frenetic supporter of the House of York , Sir John hid his true sympathies so well that he enjoyed some confidence from Henry VII . He was entrusted with regulatory tasks by the King as Justice of Array in Essex and Middlesex , was a regular member of the King's Privy Council and in June 1492 served in Étaples as a diplomatic negotiator in the peace negotiations with the French King Charles VIII.

In the mid-1490s, Sir John was the head of a conspiracy that aimed to assassinate King Henry VII and his descendants and bring Perkin Warbeck to the throne. William Hussey, Archdeacon of London, was one of the conspirators. The group acted rather strange and unprofessional. For example, fortune tellers and poisoners were commissioned in Rome in 1495, who were rather dubious and the product of one, a kind of ointment, was ultimately destroyed by Sir John. Nevertheless, a poisoning had originally been seriously considered and a test murder was carried out in Rome in 1495 on a servant of Cem Sultan , the brother of Sultan Bayezid II . Sir John was never charged or punished for these machinations.

He died in November 1501.

reception

Sir John Kendal and his murder plot are also part of the 1972 English TV series The Shadow of the Tower .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Stapleton: Plumpton Correspondance. Volume 4, Camden Society 1839, p. 118.
  2. ↑ www.britishmuseum.org
  3. ^ A b Joseph Lilly: The Life and Typography of William Caxton, Endlands first Printer. Volume II, London 1863, p. 80.
  4. ^ Samuel Lewis: The History and Topography of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington. JH Jackson, London 1842, p. 99.
  5. ^ A b c Frederic Madden: Documents related to Perkin Warbeck with Remarks on his History. JB Nichols & Son 1837, pp. 20/21.
  6. ↑ www.british-history.ac.uk Religious Houses: House of Knights hospitallers , read online July 22, 2016
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Anne Wroe: Perkin. Random House 2010, ISBN 978-1-409-01826-1 .
  8. ^ Theodore Hook: The New Monthly Magazine. Volume 50, Part II, Henry Colburn, London 1837, p. 146.
  9. ↑ The Shadow of the Tower on IMDb
predecessor Office successor
John Weston Johanniter Grand Prior of England
1491–1501 		Thomas Docwra
personal data
SURNAME Kendal, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kendal, Sir John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight of the Order of St. John
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH November 1501