Bardolph (Shakespeare character) to the king's noble companion before Agincourt. In the 1989 Kenneth Branagh version of "Henry V" he was played by Richard Briers, in a scene in which his execution occurred on screen. In the 2012 series "The Hollow Crown" he was portrayed by Tom Georgeson. His death is again depicted on screen. Bardolph (Shakespeare character) Bardolph is a fictional character who appears in four plays by William Shakespeare. He is a thief who forms part of the entourage of Sir John Falstaff. His grossly inflamed nose and constantly flushed, carbuncle-covered face is a repeated subject for Falstaff's and Prince Hal's
John Oldcastle Lollard plots of 1416, and appears to have intrigued with the Scots also. In November 1417 his hiding-place was at last discovered and he was captured by Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton. Some historians believed he was captured in the upland Olchon Valley of western Herefordshire adjacent to the Black Mountains, Wales, not far from the village of Oldcastle itself in his family's old heartlands. Modern historians believe that he was hiding with some Lollard friends at a glade on Pant-mawr farm in Broniarth, in Wales called Cobham's Garden. The principal agents in the capture were four of the tenants