The new name " Falstaff " probably derived from the medieval knight Sir John Fastolf ( who was also a Lollard ).

* Stephen Cooper The Real Falstaff ( a biography of Sir John Fastolf ) ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword 2010 )

* Sir John Fastolf ( 1378 ?- 1459 ) the prototype for Falstaff lived mainly at Caister-on-Sea but his family had lived at Great Yarmouth for generations

Sir John Fastolf, the inspiration for Shakespeare's Falstaff, was buried here in December 1459, next to his wife Millicent in a new aisle built by Fastolf on the South side of the abbey church.

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

The name was changed to " Falstaff ", based on Sir John Fastolf, an historical person with a reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay, and whom Shakespeare had previously represented in Henry VI, Part 1.

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

The name Falstaff was derived from Sir John Fastolf, who was also a historical person — allegedly a greedy and grasping individual, who had a ( probably undeserved ) reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay.

Sir John Fastolf was a prominent soldier in the Hundred Years ' War who gave his name to Shakespeare's character Falstaff.

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

Sir John Fastolf KG ( c. 1378 – 5 November 1459 ) was an English knight during the Hundred Years War, who has enjoyed a more lasting reputation as in some part being the prototype of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff.

In his biography of Fastolf The Real Falstaff ( 2010 ), Stephen Cooper re-locates this battle from Rouvray-Saint-Denis to Rouvray-Saint-Croix.

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

* 1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray ( also known as the Battle of the Herrings ).

The historical John Fastolf fought at the Battle of Patay against Joan of Arc, which the English lost.

* 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay.

* November 5 – John Fastolf, English soldier

* February 12 – battle of Rouvray ( or " of the Herrings "): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stewart.

* June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.

Hearing of the dispatch of an English supply convoy from Paris, under the command of Sir John Fastolf for the English siege troops, Clermont decided to take a detour to intercept it.

Fastolf brought the supplies in triumph to the English soldiers at Orleans three days later.

At his defeat at Patay in 1429 he was advised not to fight there by Sir John Fastolf, who was subsequently blamed for the debacle, but the French, inspired by Joan of Arc, showed unprecedented fighting spirit-usually they approached an English position with great terror.

Talbot's failures are all blamed on Fastolf and feuding factions in the English court.

In the fifteenth century, the town was occupied by the English, and belonged to Sir John Fastolf of Caister Castle in Norfolk ( 1380-1459 ).

Sir John Fastolf of Caister Castle Norfolk ( 1380-1459 ) later claimed to have been ' the first man over the side ' of the boat when the English landed outside the town ; and he certainly played a part in the siege, being invalided home afterwards.

As the situation for the English worsened, Sir John Fastolf, an experienced English commander, proposed in a 1435 memorandum a return to aggressive chevauchée tactics.

During the 1429 siege of Orleans, the French had planned to abandon the city after they heard rumours ( which were true ) that John Fastolf was coming with a force of men to reinforce the English besiegers.

An English reinforcement army under Sir John Fastolf departed from Paris following the defeat at Orléans.

Fastolf, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Sir Thomas Scales commanded the English.

As for the English, Talbot accused Fastolf of deserting his comrades in the face of the enemy, a charge which he pursued vigorously once he negotiated his release from captivity.

However, it was found that, a few days before Fastolf's death, he had executed a fresh will in which Fastolf had named ten executors, of whom two only, John Paston and another, were to act ; and, moreover, that Fastolf had bequeathed all his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk to Paston, subject only to the duty of founding the college at Caister, and paying 4, 000 marks to the other executors.

In the fifteenth century, Blickling Hall was in the possession of Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk ( 1380 – 1459 ), who made a fortune in the Hundred Years ' War, and whose coat of arms is still on display there.

The village prospered during the fifteenth century, when it belonged to Millicent, the wife of Sir Stephen Le Scrope and then of Sir John Fastolf ( 1380 – 1459 ), a Norfolk knight who was the effective lord of the manor for fifty years.

The college received another substantial endowment from the estate of Sir John Fastolf of Caister Castle in Norfolk ( 1380 – 1459 ).

It is generally believed that Shakespeare originally named Falstaff " John Oldcastle ", and that Lord Cobham, a descendant of the historical John Oldcastle, complained, forcing Shakespeare to change the name.

In 1987, before Clarence aired and after rejecting Hall's offer of the part of Falstaff in a Royal National Theatre production of Henry IV, Part 1 & 2, Barker retired from show business, aged 58, " at the height of his fame ", citing a decline in his own writing quality, lack of ambition and ideas, and a desire to go out on top so as not to damage his legacy, as well as concerns about the state of his heart.

Tynan judged any Falstaff against Richardson's, which he considered " matchless ", and Gielgud judged " definitive ".

Mistress Page ( Julie Hughett ) and Falstaff ( John Rousseau ) in " The Merry Wives of Windsor ", staged by Pacific Repertory Theatre at the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel, Ca., in 1999.

Henry Fuseli: " Falstaff in the Washbasket ", 1792

Because a cuckolded husband was said to " wear horns ", any reference, no matter how oblique, to horns or a horned animal ( for example, the " buck " basket where Falstaff finds himself ) probably instilled great hilarity among the audience.

Other characters had catchphrases that were almost as famous as Claghorn's, such as Titus Moody's " Howdy, Bub ", and Falstaff Openshaw's " That is precisely why I am here.

On the way to this climax, we are treated to Falstaff, who has " misused the King's press damnably ", not only by taking money from able-bodied men who wished to evade service but by keeping the wages of the poor souls he brought instead who were killed in battle (" food for powder, food for powder ").

" Iambic pentameter verse lines in both parts are irregular when using the name " Falstaff ", but correct with " Oldcastle ".

* Arrigo Boito, composing a libretto for Verdi's opera Falstaff by improvising upon materials in Merry Wives and Henry IV, built the moonlit last act set in Windsor Great Park around a prank revenge played upon the amorous Falstaff by masqueraders disguised as spirits and the spectral " Black Huntsman ", in whom Herne the Hunter is recognizable.

This and " Milton dictating to his Daughters ", exhibited in 1840, were the most important of his figure paintings, of which rare class of his work the South Kensington Museum ( Sheepshanks Collection ) ( now the V & A contains two specimens, ' Anne Page and Slender ' and ' Falstaff and Simple.

Fellow comic Rob Newman called him " a hilarious, anarchic, living legend ; a millennial Falstaff ", while Stewart Lee wrote that " Malcolm Hardee is a natural clown who in any decent country would be a national institution " and Arthur Smith described him as " a South London Rabelais " and claimed that " everything about Malcolm, apart from his stand-up act, was original ".

Other Heldenbaritone parts include Kaspar in Weber's " Der Freischütz ", Jochanaan in Strauss ' " Salome " and the title role in Verdi's " Falstaff ".

Its first four locomotives, purchased between 1992 and 1994, were given names of Shakespearean characters (# 177 was named " Titania ", # 178 " Paulina ", # 179 " Portia ", and # 180 " Falstaff "), as Stratford is the home of the Canadian Shakespearean Festival.