Oldcastle

American  

[ohld-kas-uhl, -kah-suhl] / ˈoʊldˌkæs əl, -ˌkɑ səl /

noun

1. Sir John (Lord Cobham), 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.

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Oldcastle British  

/ ˈəʊldˌkɑːsəl /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

It is being presented by Bickford in a partnership with Oldcastle and the Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, based in Madison and currently without a performing space, where Mr. Pietrowski is the artistic director.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2011

Perhaps the set functioned better at the Oldcastle Theater Company in Vermont, where this production first appeared in August.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2011

Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Oldcastle commissions Crabbe to write a history of the Medici family for �1 a week and �10 on publication.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most famous of these was Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, a brave but rather hot-headed and violent soldier, who was suspected of meaning to get up a rebellion.

From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie