Ford: he carries Falstaff to Datchet Mead in a buck-basket, in The Merry Wives of Windsor. John Bates (fict) is a soldier the English army in Henry V. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (hist) is uncle to King Richard and father to Bolingbroke in Richard II. John Gower (hist) is the "Presenter", or narrator, of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. John Rugby is a servant to Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor. John Talbot is the son of Sir John Talbot. They die together bravely in battle in Henry VI, Part 1. King John (hist) is the title character of King John: a king whose throne is under threat from the claim of his young nephew, Arthur. Prince John of Lancaster (hist) is the younger brother of Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. He is also the Duke of Bedford who is Regent of France in Henry VI, Part 1. Sir John Blunt is a supporter of the king in Henry IV, Part 2. Sir John Coleville is a rebel captured by Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 2. Sir John Falstaff (fict, but see Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Fastolfe) is a central character of Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the Henry plays, he is "bad angel" to prince Hal, and is eventually rejected by him. He is the lecherous gull of the title characters in Merry Wives. His death is reported in Henry V, although he is not a character in that play. He is (with Hamlet) one of the two most significant roles in Shakespeare. Sir John Fastolfe (hist) is a coward, stripped of his garter in Henry VI, Part 1. Sir John Montgomery (historically Thomas Montgomery) is a minor Yorkist character in Henry VI, Part 3. Sir John Mortimer (hist) is an uncle of Richard Duke of York (1) in Henry VI, Part 3. Sir John Stanley supervises Eleanor's penance in Henry VI, Part 2. Sir John Talbot (hist) is the leader of the English forces in France, and therefore the chief enemy of Joan, in Henry VI, Part 1. Joseph is a servant of Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. Jourdain, with Southwell, Hume and Bolingbroke, are the supernatural conspirators with Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester in Henry VI, Part 2. Julia is the faithful lover