King John (play) production of the play (directed by Ben Humphrey) around the tomb of King John in Worcester Cathedral on the 800th anniversary of the King's death. King John was played by Phil Leach. The Bremer Shakespeare Company performed the play at the Globe Theater Neuss as part of the Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss on 28th June 2005. The play was translated into German and directed by Rainer Iwersen. King John (play) The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England
John Hopton (died 1478) John Hopton (died 1478) John Hopton (about 1405-1478) was an English landowner and administrator with estates in Suffolk and Yorkshire who was active in local government during the reigns of King Henry VI and King Edward IV. He was a son of Thomas Hopton (died before 1428) and his wife Margaret, daughter of William Pert of Terrington (Tiverington in old documents ) and his wife Joan Scrope. His father was the illegitimate child of Joan Hopton, from a gentry family with lands near Swillington, and his paternal grandfather was Sir Robert Swillington, Chamberlain of the Household to John of Gaunt.