Meaning Of The Word Oldcastle

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Oldcastle in American English
Sir John Lord Cobham 1378?-1417; Eng. Lollard leader: executed as a heretic

Oldcastle in British English
noun: 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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