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Roger Bolingbroke (died 18 November 1441) was a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. He flourished in the first half of the 15th century. He was tried, convicted and executed for treasonable witchcraft on the person of Henry VI of England. Bolingbroke was a person of great intelligence and learning. He was part of the household of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, and was the personal clerk to Eleanor Cobham, the Duke's wife. ==Conspiracy== Bolingbroke was the best known of the three scholars implicated in the "conspiracy" to bring about the death of King Henry. He was described as a ‘gret and konnyng man in astronomye’ and ‘renowned in all the world’,〔English Chronicle, 57; ‘Wilhelmi Wyrcester Annales’, 763; Emden, Biographical Reg. Oxford, I, 214-15.〕 In October 1440 he and Thomas Southwell produced a horoscope for Eleanor Cobham which predicted the death of King Henry, an event, which, if it were to have happened, would have meant the Duke would have become King and Eleanor his Queen. Naturally, when the King was acquainted with this prediction he was not best pleased. The Kings Council charged Bolingbroke and Southwell, and another - John Home (or Hum), with conspiring to kill the King with necromancy. In addition to these scholars, a woman known as Margery Jourdemayne was also implicated. Jourdemayne was known as "The Witch of Eye" and was engaged in the conspiracy to provide spells and potions. She and Bolingbroke were the only two to be executed for their parts in the affair. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Bolingbroke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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