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  • noun oldcastle Sir John (Lord Cobham) 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff. 1
  • noun oldcastle 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 0
  • noun oldcastle Sir JohnLord Cobham 1378?-1417; Eng. Lollard leader: executed as a heretic 0
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