The Boar's Head Inn was an inn at

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, owned by

Sir John Fastolf Sir John Fastolf (6 November 1380 – 5 November 1459) was a late medieval English soldier, landowner, and knight who fought in the Hundred Years' War from 1415 to 1439, latterly as a senior commander against Joan of Arc, among others. He h ...

, who was the inspiration for the Shakespearean character of

Falstaff Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays ''Henry IV, Part 1'' and '' Part 2'', w ...

. While the Boar's Head Inn in Eastcheap is not known to have existed during the reign of Henry IV, this inn may have.

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